shares of dollar general corp dg advanced 102 to 22496 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 028 to 453695 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 037 to 3544382 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak dollar general corp closed 1439 below its 52week high 23935 which the company achieved on august 11th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as walmart inc wmt rose 053 to 14856 costco wholesale corp cost rose 097 to 46097 and target corp tgt fell 023 to 24581 trading volume 12 m remained 270668 below its 50day average volume of 15 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