3i group plc iii shares advanced 181 to £1882 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 052 to 750049 3i group plc closed £155 short of its 52week high £2036 which the company reached on june 15 trading volume 919798 remained 22 million below its 50day average volume of 32 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