shares of avalonbay communities inc avb inched 083 higher to 18908 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 069 to 436901 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 043 to 3421212 avalonbay communities inc closed 3134 short of its 52week high 22042 which the company reached on august 17th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as equity residential eqr rose 052 to 6599 udr inc udr rose 033 to 4262 and midamerica apartment communities inc maa rose 062 to 15368 trading volume 525592 remained 231135 below its 50day average volume of 756727 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