pearson plc pson shares dropped 587 to £898 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 064 to 763345 pearson plc closed £108 below its 52week high £1006 which the company reached on november 30 trading volume 19 m remained 128321 below its 50day average volume of 20 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