shares of assurant inc aiz advanced 155 to 18318 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 031 to 412143 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 005 to 3291578 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains assurant inc closed 1094 short of its 52week high 19412 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as unitedhealth group inc unh rose 094 to 49018 metlife inc met rose 104 to 6688 and aflac inc afl rose 058 to 5916 trading volume 347565 remained 108542 below its 50day average volume of 456107 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