ferguson plc ferg shares slid 179 to £10960 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 110 to 770264 ferguson plc closed £1500 below its 52week high £12460 which the company achieved on february 16 trading volume 127562 remained 227477 below its 50day average volume of 355039 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