shares of ppl corp ppl advanced 201 to 2539 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 114 to 371998 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 112 to 3052380 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains ppl corp closed 560 short of its 52week high 3099 which the company reached on august 17th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as nextera energy inc nee rose 191 to 7506 duke energy corp duk rose 192 to 9081 and southern co so rose 173 to 6539 trading volume 42 m remained 726836 below its 50day average volume of 49 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