shares of western union co wu shed 042 to 1670 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 099 to 399895 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 051 to 3203690 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses western union co closed 679 below its 52week high 2349 which the company reached on july 28th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as mastercard inc ma rose 166 to 34692 fidelity national information services inc fis rose 159 to 9891 and global payments inc gpn rose 033 to 12027 trading volume 28 m remained 736727 below its 50day average volume of 35 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