shares of marathon oil corp mro inched 094 higher to 2583 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 031 to 398224 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 022 to 3288909 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains marathon oil corp closed 759 below its 52week high 3342 which the company reached on november 7th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as exxon mobil corp xom fell 018 to 11055 and chevron corp cvx rose 025 to 16282 trading volume 86 m remained 20 million below its 50day average volume of 106 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