shares of mfa financial inc mfa slumped 078 to 1013 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp falling 248 to 1035317 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 195 to 3251394 mfa financial inc closed 893 below its 52week high 1906 which the company achieved on december 8th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as pennymac mortgage investment trust pmt remained unchanged invesco mortgage capital inc ivr fell 058 to 1195 and new york mortgage trust inc nymt fell 115 to 259 trading volume 11 m remained 856920 below its 50day average volume of 19 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