shares of essex property trust inc ess inched 088 higher to 21097 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 119 to 415877 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 124 to 3342077 essex property trust inc closed 8936 short of its 52week high 30033 which the company reached on august 16th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as avalonbay communities inc avb rose 108 to 17717 equity residential eqr rose 072 to 6157 and udr inc udr rose 040 to 4054 trading volume 277471 remained 139155 below its 50day average volume of 416626 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