shares of wr berkley corp wrb inched 009 higher to 5615 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 130 to 420545 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 100 to 3309334 wr berkley corp closed 2084 below its 52week high 7699 which the company achieved on december 1st the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as chubb ltd cb fell 026 to 19009 progressive corp pgr fell 034 to 12849 and travelers cos inc trv fell 079 to 17229 trading volume 19 m remained 6599 below its 50day average volume of 19 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