whitbread plc wtb shares inched up 030 to £3309 friday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 032 to 725694 whitbread plc closed £343 below its 52week high £3652 which the company reached on march 8 trading volume 465103 remained 458537 below its 50day average volume of 923640 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