shares of ross stores inc rost slid 051 to 8785 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 171 to 378993 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 170 to 3018378 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses ross stores inc closed 3551 below its 52week high 12336 which the company reached on november 17th despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as tjx cos tjx fell 119 to 6296 gap inc gps fell 098 to 912 and overstockcom inc ostk fell 134 to 2508true trading volume 23 m remained 144897 below its 50day average volume of 25 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