shares of southern co so rallied 185 to 7164 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 052 to 436569 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 030 to 3395152 southern co closed 893 below its 52week high 8057 which the company achieved on august 19th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as nextera energy inc nee rose 136 to 7578 dominion energy inc d rose 023 to 5329 and american electric power co inc aep rose 108 to 8545 trading volume 29 m remained 12 million below its 50day average volume of 41 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