shares of essex property trust inc ess slipped 287 to 22262 friday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 237 to 358307 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 134 to 2963483 essex property trust inc closed 14074 short of its 52week high 36336 which the company reached on april 21st despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as equity residential eqr fell 330 to 6183 avalonbay communities inc avb fell 358 to 16958 and udr inc udr fell 356 to 3765true trading volume 505766 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 409761 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