shares of astrazeneca plc azn inched down 003 to £11750 thursday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 032 to 759974 astrazeneca plc closed £642 below its 52week high £12392 which the company reached on april 18 trading volume 684425 remained 10 million below its 50day average volume of 17 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