shares of whitbread plc wtb advanced 156 to £3383 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 183 to 741611 whitbread plc closed £269 short of its 52week high £3652 which the company achieved on march 8 trading volume 202547 remained 663995 below its 50day average volume of 866542 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