shares of american electric power co inc aep rose 180 to 8658 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 114 to 371998 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 112 to 3052380 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains american electric power co inc closed 1902 short of its 52week high 10560 which the company reached on september 12th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as dominion energy inc d rose 193 to 6654 duke energy corp duk rose 192 to 9081 and southern co so rose 173 to 6539 trading volume 26 m remained 252005 below its 50day average volume of 29 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