shares of blackrock inc blk inched 016 higher to 69638 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 060 to 412979 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 033 to 3378662 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains blackrock inc closed 8927 short of its 52week high 78565 which the company reached on november 11th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as jpmorgan chase  co jpm fell 029 to 14081 wells fargo  co wfc fell 135 to 4167 and morgan stanley ms fell 002 to 9043 trading volume 573414 remained 92563 below its 50day average volume of 665977 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