shares of caterpillar inc cat slipped 157 to 22729 friday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 073 to 393438 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 090 to 3347646 the stocks fall snapped a twoday winning streak caterpillar inc closed 1256 below its 52week high 23985 which the company reached on november 14th despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as deere  co de fell 183 to 43481 trading volume 23 m remained 966093 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