british american tobacco plc bats shares inched up 018 to £2720 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 034 to 775108 british american tobacco plc closed £925 below its 52week high £3645 which the company reached on june 29 trading volume 20 m remained 21 million below its 50day average volume of 41 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