associated british foods plc abf shares inched up 098 to £1905 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 076 to 794272 associated british foods plc closed 5950 pence short of its 52week high £1964 which the company achieved on february 23 trading volume 443796 remained 11 million below its 50day average volume of 15 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