imperial brands plc imb shares inched up 020 to £2050 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 059 to 793063 imperial brands plc closed £135 short of its 52week high £2185 which the company achieved on november 23 trading volume 993379 remained 17 million below its 50day average volume of 27 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