shares of dow inc dow advanced 125 to 5982 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 022 to 409046 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 050 to 3386927 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak dow inc closed 1204 short of its 52week high 7186 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as linde plc lin fell 016 to 33204 and air products  chemicals inc apd rose 032 to 28782 trading volume 38 m remained 12 million below its 50day average volume of 50 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