british american tobacco plc bats shares inched up 081 to £3155 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 037 to 794404 british american tobacco plc closed £490 below its 52week high £3645 which the company reached on june 29 trading volume 18 m remained 21 million below its 50day average volume of 39 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