shares of gilead sciences inc gild advanced 104 to 5839 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 146 to 378999 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 100 to 3066853 the stocks rise snapped a fiveday losing streak gilead sciences inc closed 1573 short of its 52week high 7412 which the company reached on december 30th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 107 to 16999 merck  co inc mrk rose 015 to 8463 and abbvie inc abbv rose 034 to 13809 trading volume 65 m remained 16 million below its 50day average volume of 81 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