shares of american electric power co inc aep rallied 163 to 8312 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 061 to 417983 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 041 to 3290827 american electric power co inc closed 2248 short of its 52week high 10560 which the company reached on september 12th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as nextera energy inc nee rose 106 to 7346 duke energy corp duk rose 145 to 8929 and southern co so fell 011 to 6975 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