shares of caterpillar inc cat slid 242 to 20794 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 404 to 392368 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 357 to 3149007 the stocks fall snapped a threeday winning streak caterpillar inc closed 3875 short of its 52week high 24669 which the company achieved on june 4th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as deere  co de fell 406 to 36867 general electric co ge fell 157 to 7520 and cummins inc cmi fell 194 to 20416 trading volume 47 m eclipsed 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