shares of southern co so inched 029 higher to 7198 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 092 to 381880 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 062 to 3098133 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains southern co closed 526 below its 52week high 7724 which the company reached on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as nextera energy inc nee fell 090 to 7995 dominion energy inc d fell 066 to 7925 and duke energy corp duk fell 027 to 10767 trading volume 39 m remained 13 million below its 50day average volume of 52 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