shares of wr berkley corp wrb inched 081 higher to 6978 monday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 130 to 401777 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 077 to 3371709 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak wr berkley corp closed 721 short of its 52week high 7699 which the company reached on december 1st the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as chubb ltd cb fell 055 to 22607 progressive corp pgr rose 024 to 13540 and travelers cos inc trv fell 045 to 18791 trading volume 25 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 12 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