shares of hartford financial services group inc hig inched 013 higher to 6927 thursday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 053 to 436349 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 029 to 3379466 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains hartford financial services group inc closed 890 short of its 52week high 7817 which the company reached on october 29th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as aviva plc adr avviy fell 173 to 1079 arch capital group ltd acgl fell 119 to 4656 and assurant inc aiz rose 102 to 17060 trading volume 12 m remained 620376 below its 50day average volume of 18 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