shares of smiths group plc smin inched up 057 to £1765 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 029 to 790772 smiths group plc closed 4200 pence below its 52week high £1807 which the company reached on february 16 trading volume 489873 remained 380650 below its 50day average volume of 870523 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