shares of duke energy corp duk advanced 163 to 9236 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 074 to 447216 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 025 to 3434743 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains duke energy corp closed 2131 short of its 52week high 11367 which the company achieved on august 19th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as nextera energy inc nee rose 177 to 7347 southern co so rose 122 to 7159 and dominion energy inc d rose 135 to 5269 trading volume 26 m remained 378384 below its 50day average volume of 29 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