shares of unum group unm advanced 204 to 4155 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 136 to 400358 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 118 to 3409810 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak unum group closed 509 short of its 52week high 4664 which the company reached on november 2nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as aflac inc afl rose 087 to 7199 principal financial group inc pfg rose 077 to 9171 and assurant inc aiz rose 054 to 12718 trading volume 12 m remained 494439 below its 50day average volume of 17 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