shares of nikola corp nkla rallied 231 to 531 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp falling 015 to 1124758 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 067 to 3077279 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains nikola corp closed 1025 below its 52week high 1556 which the company reached on november 4th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as paccar inc pcar fell 125 to 7932 and oshkosh corp osk fell 067 to 7995 trading volume 56 m remained 71 million below its 50day average volume of 127 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