shares of bristol myers squibb co bmy inched 072 higher to 5745 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 017 to 469070 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 055 to 3581380 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak bristol myers squibb co closed 1230 short of its 52week high 6975 which the company reached on august 23rd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 062 to 16069 merck  co inc mrk rose 142 to 8280 and pfizer inc pfe fell 023 to 5108 trading volume 144 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 114 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