shares of pearson plc pson inched up 007 to £840 monday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 038 to 740642 pearson plc closed £166 short of its 52week high £1006 which the company achieved on november 30 trading volume 937560 remained 11 million below its 50day average volume of 20 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