shares of valero energy corp vlo rose 189 to 12929 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 090 to 451844 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 116 to 3547313 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains valero energy corp closed 2110 short of its 52week high 15039 which the company achieved on january 27th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as exxon mobil corp xom fell 020 to 10720 and chevron corp cvx rose 036 to 15989 trading volume 30 m remained 894836 below its 50day average volume of 39 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