shares of caterpillar inc cat slipped 028 to 23888 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 040 to 382414 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 003 to 3313637 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses caterpillar inc closed 617 below its 52week high 24505 which the company achieved on december 27th despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as deere  co de fell 104 to 42429 trading volume 26 m remained 644956 below its 50day average volume of 32 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