shares of stanley black  decker inc swk advanced 112 to 16615 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 053 to 436349 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 029 to 3379466 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains stanley black  decker inc closed 5885 short of its 52week high 22500 which the company reached on may 10th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as 3m co mmm rose 073 to 14830 illinois tool works inc itw rose 054 to 21532 and general electric co ge fell 182 to 9245 trading volume 16 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 15 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use