shares of imperial brands plc imb inched up 043 to £1884 friday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 126 to 740545 imperial brands plc closed £302 below its 52week high £2185 which the company achieved on november 23 trading volume 13 m remained 13 million below its 50day average volume of 27 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