shares of activision blizzard inc atvi dropped 006 to 7707 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 053 to 401232 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 033 to 3315391 activision blizzard inc closed 476 short of its 52week high 8183 which the company reached on march 4th despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as unity software inc u fell 1590 to 3183 trading volume 40 m remained 22 million below its 50day average volume of 63 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