shares of caterpillar inc cat slid 168 to 24115 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 047 to 438871 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 072 to 3405387 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses caterpillar inc closed 2489 short of its 52week high 26604 which the company reached on january 27th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as deere  co de rose 009 to 40798 trading volume 30 m remained 334682 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