shares of berkshire hathaway inc cl b brkb slipped 136 to 29973 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 165 to 393697 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 163 to 3203011 the stocks fall snapped a twoday winning streak berkshire hathaway inc cl b closed 6237 below its 52week high 36210 which the company achieved on march 29th despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as honeywell international inc hon fell 209 to 18716 general electric co ge fell 281 to 8959 and illinois tool works inc itw fell 172 to 23112true trading volume 31 m remained 892910 below its 50day average volume of 40 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