shares of us bancorp usb rallied 163 to 4353 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 096 to 380680 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 131 to 3282700 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains us bancorp closed 2004 short of its 52week high 6357 which the company achieved on january 13th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as bank of america corp bac rose 060 to 3701 citigroup inc c rose 133 to 4573 and wells fargo  co wfc rose 071 to 4707 trading volume 122 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 98 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