shares of american express co axp rallied 135 to 17208 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 045 to 439644 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 080 to 3412242 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains american express co closed 1007 below its 52week high 18215 which the company achieved on february 14th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as jpmorgan chase  co jpm rose 349 to 14343 visa inc cl a v rose 279 to 23432 and bank of america corp bac rose 210 to 2866 trading volume 29 m remained 249018 below its 50day average volume of 31 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