shares of nordstrom inc jwn advanced 241 to 1615 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 073 to 411524 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 077 to 3279992 nordstrom inc closed 1157 short of its 52week high 2772 which the company achieved on june 9th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as amazoncom inc amzn rose 153 to 11675 walmart inc wmt fell 046 to 14763 and target corp tgt fell 276 to 14310 trading volume 41 m remained 570830 below its 50day average volume of 47 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