shares of melrose industries plc mro inched up 049 to £496 friday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 008 to 743457 melrose industries plc closed 3680 pence short of its 52week high £533 which the company reached on june 13 trading volume 32 m remained 44 million below its 50day average volume of 76 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