shares of caterpillar inc cat inched 043 higher to 23143 friday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 048 to 396534 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 059 to 3374569 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak caterpillar inc closed 842 below its 52week high 23985 which the company reached on november 14th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as deere  co de rose 031 to 41426 general electric co ge rose 011 to 8548 and cummins inc cmi rose 078 to 25031 trading volume 28 m remained 529683 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