shares of caterpillar inc cat slipped 164 to 21124 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 058 to 447000 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 054 to 3521312 the stocks fall snapped a fourday winning streak caterpillar inc closed 3545 short of its 52week high 24669 which the company reached on june 4th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as deere  co de rose 091 to 37981 general electric co ge fell 126 to 10338 and cummins inc cmi fell 062 to 23698 trading volume 25 m remained 12 million below its 50day average volume of 37 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