shares of ameren corp aee rallied 124 to 8975 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 ameren corp closed 778 below its 52week high 9753 which the company reached on august 19th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as southern co so rose 125 to 7425 exelon corp exc rose 054 to 4256 and xcel energy inc xel rose 089 to 6911 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