shares of xcel energy inc xel rose 204 to 6267 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 016 to 435946 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 026 to 3439072 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak xcel energy inc closed 1377 short of its 52week high 7644 which the company reached on november 9th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as duke energy corp duk rose 133 to 9834 wec energy group inc wec rose 141 to 8901 and dte energy co dte rose 153 to 11313 trading volume 30 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 25 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