shares of eastman chemical co emn rose 424 to 8835 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 074 to 447216 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 025 to 3434743 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains eastman chemical co closed 1383 below its 52week high 10218 which the company achieved on august 16th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as exxon mobil corp xom rose 049 to 10649 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