diageo plc dge shares inched down 011 to £3539 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 063 to 787998 diageo plc closed £529 below its 52week high £4067 which the company achieved on april 7 trading volume 22 m remained 21 million below its 50day average volume of 43 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