shares of occidental petroleum corp oxy inched 007 higher to 2899 friday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 026 to 476618 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 016 to 3633830 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak occidental petroleum corp closed 676 short of its 52week high 3575 which the company reached on october 26th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as exxon mobil corp xom rose 066 to 6119 chevron corp cvx fell 007 to 11735 and conocophillips cop rose 014 to 7218 trading volume 87 m remained 56 million below its 50day average volume of 142 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