associated british foods plc abf shares inched down 072 to £1655 thursday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 023 to 747217 associated british foods plc closed £527 short of its 52week high £2181 which the company reached on january 20 trading volume 748691 remained 649770 below its 50day average volume of 14 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