shares of ameren corp aee advanced 181 to 8818 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 075 to 396351 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 055 to 3378148 ameren corp closed 1102 below its 52week high 9920 which the company reached on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as southern co so rose 026 to 6868 exelon corp exc fell 128 to 4177 and xcel energy inc xel rose 136 to 6981 trading volume 11 m remained 313562 below 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