melrose industries plc mro shares dropped 122 to £158 friday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 126 to 740545 melrose industries plc closed 1135 pence short of its 52week high £169 which the company reached on july 20 trading volume 77 m remained 56 million below its 50day average volume of 133 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