shares of abbott laboratories abt sank 068 to 10783 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 120 to 378322 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 110 to 3287571 the stocks fall snapped a twoday winning streak abbott laboratories closed 3394 short of its 52week high 14177 which the company reached on december 31st the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 043 to 17666 trading volume 32 m remained 25 million below its 50day average volume of 58 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