shares of prudential financial inc pru advanced 188 to 9660 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 150 to 390262 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 112 to 3138455 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak prudential financial inc closed 2762 short of its 52week high 12422 which the company achieved on february 10th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as prudential plc adr puk rose 462 to 2492 metlife inc met rose 178 to 6303 and lincoln national corp lnc rose 274 to 4806 trading volume 17 m remained 357741 below its 50day average volume of 20 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