ashtead group plc aht shares inched up 087 to £5360 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 014 to 776111 ashtead group plc closed £196 short of its 52week high £5556 which the company reached on march 18 trading volume 458643 remained 452290 below its 50day average volume of 910933 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