shares of centerpoint energy inc cnp inched 083 higher to 3020 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 072 to 406122 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 086 to 3312774 centerpoint energy inc closed 330 short of its 52week high 3350 which the company achieved on september 23rd the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as duke energy corp duk rose 080 to 9811 exelon corp exc rose 054 to 4256 and sempra sre rose 057 to 15349 trading volume 32 m remained 582582 below its 50day average volume of 38 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