shares of marathon oil corp mro advanced 165 to 2836 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 202 to 408885 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 134 to 3265459 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains marathon oil corp closed 064 short of its 52week high 2900 which the company achieved on may 5th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as exxon mobil corp xom rose 128 to 9211 and chevron corp cvx rose 059 to 17403 trading volume 177 m remained 41 million below its 50day average volume of 218 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