shares of vertex pharmaceuticals inc vrtx advanced 101 to 32845 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 001 to 415452 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 023 to 3389701 vertex pharmaceuticals inc closed 655 below its 52week high 33500 which the company reached on april 17th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as abbvie inc abbv rose 102 to 16121 krystal biotech inc krys rose 012 to 8911 and arcturus therapeutics holdings inc arct rose 032 to 2797 trading volume 796109 remained 308369 below its 50day average volume of 11 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