shares of essex property trust inc ess slumped 010 to 24392 friday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 053 to 447803 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 043 to 3506562 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses essex property trust inc closed 5641 short of its 52week high 30033 which the company achieved on august 16th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as avalonbay communities inc avb rose 025 to 18485 equity residential eqr fell 006 to 6540 and udr inc udr fell 055 to 4003 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