shares of american express co axp rose 168 to 16327 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 008 to 435419 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 015 to 3391984 american express co closed 1640 below its 52week high 17967 which the company reached on july 23rd the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as visa inc cl a v rose 005 to 22017 mastercard inc ma fell 068 to 33738 and jpmorgan chase  co jpm rose 001 to 15298 trading volume 35 m remained 288921 below its 50day average volume of 38 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