shares of midamerica apartment communities inc maa slid 205 to 14761 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 067 to 369516 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 033 to 3042381 the stocks fall snapped a twoday winning streak midamerica apartment communities inc closed 8402 short of its 52week high 23163 which the company reached on december 31st despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as equity residential eqr fell 212 to 6363 avalonbay communities inc avb fell 248 to 17335 and udr inc udr fell 283 to 3886true trading volume 15 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 670126 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