shares of wr berkley corp wrb inched 080 higher to 9600 friday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 117 to 446312 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 080 to 3475493 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains wr berkley corp closed 046 short of its 52week high 9646 which the company reached on march 14th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as arch capital group ltd acgl fell 142 to 4584 alleghany corp y fell 008 to 67675 and american financial group inc afg fell 083 to 14039 trading volume 14 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 889567 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