shares of bristol myers squibb co bmy rallied 263 to 7129 thursday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 084 to 375799 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 035 to 3007668 the stocks rise snapped a fourday losing streak bristol myers squibb co closed 930 short of its 52week high 8059 which the company achieved on june 27th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 178 to 16618 merck  co inc mrk rose 353 to 8751 and pfizer inc pfe rose 148 to 4457 trading volume 99 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 96 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