shares of equity residential eqr inched 036 higher to 6325 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 041 to 385610 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 024 to 3265320 equity residential closed 3107 below its 52week high 9432 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as avalonbay communities inc avb rose 010 to 17529 udr inc udr rose 020 to 3984 and midamerica apartment communities inc maa rose 006 to 15755 trading volume 16 m remained 139911 below its 50day average volume of 17 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