shares of republic services inc rsg rallied 332 to 12999 thursday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 138 to 409041 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 126 to 3369685 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains republic services inc closed 1918 below its 52week high 14917 which the company achieved on september 12th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as waste management inc wm rose 009 to 15227 and ecolab inc ecl fell 120 to 16199 trading volume 24 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 14 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