shares of vertex pharmaceuticals inc vrtx rallied 105 to 35078 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 004 to 437686 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 022 to 3385266 vertex pharmaceuticals inc closed 368 below its 52week high 35446 which the company reached on may 2nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as abbvie inc abbv fell 007 to 13251 krystal biotech inc krys rose 161 to 11724 and arcturus therapeutics holdings inc arct rose 438 to 2599 trading volume 10 m remained 258483 below its 50day average volume of 13 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