shares of essex property trust inc ess slipped 464 to 34069 friday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 227 to 459462 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 253 to 3489934 the stocks fall snapped a twoday winning streak essex property trust inc closed 1721 below its 52week high 35790 which the company achieved on november 24th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors friday as equity residential eqr fell 404 to 8427 avalonbay communities inc avb fell 303 to 23939 and udr inc udr fell 347 to 5569 trading volume 257060 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 239519 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