shares of caterpillar inc cat shed 083 to 17231 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 036 to 384508 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 023 to 3103768 this was the stocks sixth consecutive day of losses caterpillar inc closed 6559 short of its 52week high 23790 which the company reached on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as deere  co de fell 102 to 28914 general electric co ge fell 074 to 6157 and cummins inc cmi rose 023 to 19452 trading volume 31 m remained 189345 below its 50day average volume of 33 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