shares of metlife inc met inched 070 higher to 6614 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 057 to 415538 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 026 to 3306150 metlife inc closed 704 short of its 52week high 7318 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as prudential plc adr puk rose 012 to 2513 assurant inc aiz fell 057 to 18084 and unitedhealth group inc unh fell 146 to 50115 trading volume 33 m remained 12 million below its 50day average volume of 44 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