shares of caterpillar inc cat slipped 210 to 18054 thursday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 080 to 366578 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 030 to 3033359 the stocks fall snapped a threeday winning streak caterpillar inc closed 5736 below its 52week high 23790 which the company reached on april 21st the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as deere  co de fell 156 to 36552 general electric co ge fell 079 to 6997 and cummins inc cmi fell 199 to 22028 trading volume 29 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 26 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