shares of equity residential eqr inched 006 higher to 6561 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 070 to 446771 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 054 to 3512336 equity residential closed 1528 short of its 52week high 8089 which the company reached on august 18th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as avalonbay communities inc avb fell 006 to 18533 udr inc udr fell 071 to 3941 and midamerica apartment communities inc maa rose 012 to 14578 trading volume 12 m remained 693487 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