smith  nephew plc sn shares inched up 068 to £1106 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 021 to 751272 smith  nephew plc closed £252 short of its 52week high £1358 which the company achieved on january 11 trading volume 976314 remained 15 million below its 50day average volume of 25 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