shares of hartford financial services group inc hig advanced 183 to 7127 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 247 to 428750 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 185 to 3391639 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains hartford financial services group inc closed 690 below its 52week high 7817 which the company achieved on october 29th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as aviva plc adr avviy rose 126 to 1082 arch capital group ltd acgl fell 244 to 4676 and assurant inc aiz rose 011 to 18622 trading volume 23 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 21 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