shares of gilead sciences inc gild inched 054 higher to 7065 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 132 to 465527 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 068 to 3513594 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains gilead sciences inc closed 269 below its 52week high 7334 which the company reached on august 18th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 035 to 15975 merck  co inc mrk fell 539 to 7489 and abbvie inc abbv rose 033 to 11689 trading volume 89 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 64 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