shares of ppl corp ppl slumped 049 to 2822 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 204 to 435263 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 163 to 3429999 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses ppl corp closed 259 short of its 52week high 3081 which the company achieved on november 24th despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as nextera energy inc nee fell 189 to 7727 duke energy corp duk fell 059 to 9705 and southern co so fell 080 to 6194true trading volume 53 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 45 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