the astrazeneca plc adr azn advanced 126 to 5948 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 104 to 1505224 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 148 to 3476482 astrazeneca plc adr closed 145 short of its 52week high 6093 which the company achieved on july 12th the adr outperformed some of its competitors thursday as abbvie inc abbv rose 089 to 10736 amgen inc amgn rose 066 to 21505 and gilead sciences inc gild rose 043 to 7169 trading volume 53 m remained 54 million below its 50day average volume of 108 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