shares of whitbread plc wtb inched down 018 to £3421 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 032 to 759478 whitbread plc closed £231 short of its 52week high £3652 which the company achieved on march 8 trading volume 350769 remained 612932 below its 50day average volume of 963701 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