shares of marathon oil corp mro rallied 543 to 1651 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 017 to 469070 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 055 to 3581380 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains marathon oil corp closed 108 short of its 52week high 1759 which the company achieved on november 8th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as exxon mobil corp xom rose 263 to 6313 chevron corp cvx rose 210 to 11630 and royal dutch shell plc adr cl a rdsa rose 220 to 4408 trading volume 198 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 183 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