british american tobacco plc bats shares rallied 159 to £2591 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 183 to 741611 british american tobacco plc closed £964 short of its 52week high £3555 which the company reached on july 20 trading volume 22 m remained 17 million below its 50day average volume of 39 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