shares of caterpillar inc cat slipped 144 to 23230 monday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 154 to 396394 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 145 to 3384946 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses caterpillar inc closed 755 short of its 52week high 23985 which the company reached on november 14th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors monday as deere  co de fell 006 to 44121 trading volume 28 m remained 580762 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