shares of wr berkley corp wrb inched 012 higher to 5873 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 115 to 437841 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 063 to 3392674 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains wr berkley corp closed 1826 short of its 52week high 7699 which the company reached on december 1st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as chubb ltd cb fell 054 to 18975 progressive corp pgr rose 053 to 13265 and travelers cos inc trv rose 012 to 17259 trading volume 850511 remained 994902 below its 50day average volume of 18 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