shares of unitedhealth group inc unh rose 258 to 52291 thursday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 113 to 390135 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 056 to 3096182 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak unitedhealth group inc closed 3038 short of its 52week high 55329 which the company reached on april 14th 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