shares of verisign inc vrsn inched 064 higher to 19461 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 141 to 419912 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 098 to 3329178 the stocks rise snapped a fourday losing streak verisign inc closed 6242 below its 52week high 25703 which the company reached on december 30th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as verizon communications inc vz rose 044 to 4374 att inc t rose 044 to 1809 and international business machines corp ibm rose 056 to 13398 trading volume 355273 remained 266912 below its 50day average volume of 622185 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