shares of progressive corp pgr rose 177 to 11678 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 008 to 415194 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 026 to 3272682 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains progressive corp closed 546 below its 52week high 12224 which the company reached on july 7th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as travelers cos inc trv fell 027 to 15770 allstate corp all fell 099 to 11392 and selective insurance group inc sigi rose 004 to 7570 trading volume 26 m remained 491587 below its 50day average volume of 31 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