shares of willis towers watson plc wtw rose 104 to 20191 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 third consecutive day of gains willis towers watson plc closed 4779 short of its 52week high 24970 which the company achieved on october 15th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as marsh  mclennan cos mmc rose 304 to 15812 arthur j gallagher  co ajg rose 182 to 16960 and brown  brown inc bro rose 277 to 6236 trading volume 358672 remained 361644 below its 50day average volume of 720316 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