shares of franklin resources inc ben inched 011 higher to 2838 thursday on what proved to be an allaround dismal 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 franklin resources inc closed 599 below its 52week high 3437 which the company achieved on february 2nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as blackrock inc blk fell 101 to 71017 goldman sachs group inc gs rose 059 to 35316 and bank of new york mellon corp bk rose 073 to 4556 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