associated british foods plc abf shares dropped 121 to £1831 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 026 to 783070 associated british foods plc closed £350 below its 52week high £2181 which the company achieved on january 20 trading volume 734203 remained 690998 below its 50day average volume of 14 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