associated british foods plc abf shares slid 134 to £1950 thursday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 029 to 790772 associated british foods plc closed 2650 pence short of its 52week high £1976 which the company achieved on february 22 trading volume 12 m remained 244323 below its 50day average volume of 14 m 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