shares of apa corp apa inched 033 higher to 3341 friday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 130 to 420545 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 100 to 3309334 apa corp closed 1854 short of its 52week high 5195 which the company achieved on june 8th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as eog resources inc eog fell 025 to 11012 pioneer natural resources co pxd rose 016 to 20793 and schlumberger ltd slb fell 151 to 4448 trading volume 43 m remained 20 million below its 50day average volume of 62 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