shares of synchrony financial syf inched 052 higher to 3651 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 028 to 414760 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 011 to 3412805 synchrony financial closed 886 short of its 52week high 4537 which the company achieved on february 16th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as apple inc aapl rose 139 to 15533 jpmorgan chase  co jpm rose 042 to 14380 and visa inc cl a v fell 020 to 22892 trading volume 31 m remained 26 million below its 50day average volume of 58 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