shares of american electric power co inc aep rose 189 to 8799 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 076 to 398135 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 105 to 3300357 the stocks rise snapped a sevenday losing streak american electric power co inc closed 1761 short of its 52week high 10560 which the company achieved on september 12th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as nextera energy inc nee rose 335 to 7221 duke energy corp duk rose 202 to 9377 and southern co so rose 217 to 6367 trading volume 25 m remained 162708 below its 50day average volume of 27 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