shares of american express co axp inched 042 higher to 16440 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 009 to 415487 and the dow jones industrial average djia falling 003 to 3397663 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains american express co closed 2802 short of its 52week high 19242 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as jpmorgan chase  co jpm rose 112 to 14140 visa inc cl a v rose 005 to 23360 and bank of america corp bac rose 063 to 3056 trading volume 24 m remained 832278 below its 50day average volume of 33 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