shares of microchip technology inc mchp slumped 036 to 7122 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 010 to 382162 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 028 to 3284974 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of losses microchip technology inc closed 1878 short of its 52week high 9000 which the company achieved on december 28th trading volume 27 m remained 26 million below its 50day average volume of 53 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