shares of walmart inc wmt inched 062 higher to 14283 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 143 to 452016 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 102 to 3470794 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak walmart inc closed 974 short of its 52week high 15257 which the company reached on august 18th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as amazoncom inc amzn rose 015 to 327299 costco wholesale corp cost rose 074 to 55811 and target corp tgt rose 015 to 21704 trading volume 45 m remained 40 million below its 50day average volume of 85 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