next plc nxt shares inched up 073 to £6902 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 043 to 752916 next plc closed £326 short of its 52week high £7228 which the company achieved on july 21 trading volume 364172 remained 77013 below its 50day average volume of 441185 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