shares of first republic bank frc rallied 319 to 15580 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 192 to 386316 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 215 to 3128826 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains first republic bank closed 6706 below its 52week high 22286 which the company reached on november 17th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors friday as bank of america corp bac rose 704 to 3225 svb financial group sivb rose 394 to 40862 and east west bancorp inc ewbc rose 398 to 6640 trading volume 15 m eclipsed 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