shares of associated british foods plc abf inched down 005 to £2039 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 013 to 791948 associated british foods plc closed 1600 pence short of its 52week high £2055 which the company achieved on march 6 trading volume 579133 remained 798447 below its 50day average volume of 14 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