shares of cisco systems inc csco rallied 239 to 5604 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 224 to 438465 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 251 to 3405875 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains cisco systems inc closed 825 short of its 52week high 6429 which the company achieved on december 29th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as microsoft corp msft rose 092 to 29731 international business machines corp ibm rose 181 to 12418 and vmware inc vmw rose 002 to 11814 trading volume 189 m remained 37 million below its 50day average volume of 226 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