shares of verisign inc vrsn slid 151 to 18499 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 001 to 3183911 and the sp 500 index spx falling 074 to 383060 the stocks fall snapped a threeday winning streak verisign inc closed 7204 short of its 52week high 25703 which the company reached on december 30th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as verizon communications inc vz remained unchanged att inc t rose 254 to 1814 and international business machines corp ibm rose 156 to 13501 trading volume 579702 remained 72790 below its 50day average volume of 652492 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