shares of target corp tgt rose 441 to 17079 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 183 to 397987 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 140 to 3158128 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak target corp closed 9819 below its 52week high 26898 which the company achieved on november 15th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as walmart inc wmt rose 257 to 13574 costco wholesale corp cost rose 207 to 52964 and dollar general corp dg rose 254 to 24589 trading volume 52 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 39 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