shares of sempra sre inched 062 higher to 16722 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 009 to 407657 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 056 to 3439501 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains sempra closed 925 short of its 52week high 17647 which the company achieved on september 12th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as duke energy corp duk rose 038 to 10031 exelon corp exc rose 039 to 4153 and public service enterprise group inc peg fell 025 to 6040 trading volume 15 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 14 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