shares of halliburton co hal sank 077 to 2838 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 097 to 453276 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 096 to 3502865 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses halliburton co closed 082 below its 52week high 2920 which the company achieved on january 18th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as royal dutch shell plc adr cl a rdsa fell 029 to 5080 and schlumberger ltd slb fell 117 to 3710 trading volume 101 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 91 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