shares of principal financial group inc pfg rose 117 to 7936 thursday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 025 to 450189 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 019 to 3521589 principal financial group inc closed 1681 short of its 52week high 9617 which the company reached on november 11th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as chubb ltd cb fell 129 to 20290 trading volume 854890 remained 383198 below its 50day average volume of 12 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