shares of principal financial group inc pfg rallied 150 to 8410 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 023 to 3552012 and the sp 500 index spx falling 002 to 456675 principal financial group inc closed 1207 short of its 52week high 9617 which the company achieved on november 11th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as chubb ltd cb rose 530 to 20589 trading volume 965749 remained 224845 below its 50day average volume of 12 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