shares of abbott laboratories abt dropped 076 to 9780 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 070 to 389193 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 087 to 3187457 the stocks fall snapped a twoday winning streak abbott laboratories closed 2656 short of its 52week high 12436 which the company reached on april 8th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 028 to 15435 trading volume 56 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 50 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