shares of apa corp apa advanced 237 to 3281 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 176 to 396028 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 117 to 3224655 apa corp closed 1914 below its 52week high 5195 which the company reached on june 8th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as eog resources inc eog rose 296 to 10448 pioneer natural resources