shares of berkshire hathaway inc cl b brkb advanced 117 to 33982 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 122 to 442584 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 126 to 3440806 berkshire hathaway inc cl b closed 056 short of its 52week high 34038 which the company reached on june 14th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as honeywell international inc hon rose 160 to 20373 general electric co ge rose 068 to 10541 and illinois tool works inc itw rose 096 to 24680 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