shares of occidental petroleum corp oxy inched 042 higher to 5747 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim 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 occidental petroleum corp closed 1966 short of its 52week high 7713 which the company reached on august 29th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as chevron corp cvx rose 078 to 15488 eog resources inc eog rose 049 to 11087 and pioneer natural resources co pxd rose 071 to 20327 trading volume 90 m remained 16 million below its 50day average volume of 106 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