shares of avalonbay communities inc avb shed 154 to 20458 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 067 to 409119 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 123 to 3239617 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses avalonbay communities inc closed 5447 below its 52week high 25905 which the company reached on march 29th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as equity residential eqr fell 124 to 7553 udr inc udr fell 186 to 4635 and essex property trust inc ess fell 108 to 27687 trading volume 910880 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 766617 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