shares of loews corp l inched 031 higher to 6144 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 076 to 398135 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 105 to 3300357 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains loews corp closed 676 below its 52week high 6820 which the company reached on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as chubb ltd cb fell 053 to 20840 progressive corp pgr rose 001 to 14225 and travelers cos inc trv fell 047 to 18319 trading volume 704431 remained 129028 below its 50day average volume of 833459 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