shares of avalonbay communities inc avb slipped 105 to 23815 monday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 038 to 440167 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 049 to 3456617 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses avalonbay communities inc closed 1937 below its 52week high 25752 which the company achieved on january 4th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as equity residential eqr fell 053 to 8592 udr inc udr fell 118 to 5461 and essex property trust inc ess fell 073 to 31635 trading volume 536862 remained 200928 below its 50day average volume of 737790 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