shares of loews corp l advanced 126 to 5802 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 144 to 410931 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 126 to 3327415 this was the stocks sixth consecutive day of gains loews corp closed 1018 below its 52week high 6820 which the company reached on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as chubb ltd cb rose 039 to 19418 progressive corp pgr fell 051 to 14306 and travelers cos inc trv rose 035 to 17141 trading volume 13 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 932231 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