shares of occidental petroleum corp oxy rose 134 to 5892 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 119 to 415877 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 124 to 3342077 occidental petroleum corp closed 1821 short of its 52week high 7713 which the company reached on august 29th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as chevron corp cvx rose 143 to 15571 eog resources inc eog rose 295 to 11080 and pioneer natural resources co pxd rose 138 to 20396 trading volume 95 m remained 36 million below its 50day average volume of 131 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