imperial brands plc imb shares advanced 110 to £1749 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 183 to 741611 imperial brands plc closed £437 short of its 52week high £2185 which the company reached on november 23 trading volume 10 m remained 14 million below its 50day average volume of 24 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