shares of ashtead group plc aht inched down 087 to £5712 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 043 to 766627 ashtead group plc closed £300 short of its 52week high £6012 which the company achieved on march 7 trading volume 363318 remained 550471 below its 50day average volume of 913789 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