shares of abbott laboratories abt slipped 066 to 10779 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 115 to 437841 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 063 to 3392674 abbott laboratories closed 790 short of its 52week high 11569 which the company achieved on january 11th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 021 to 16329 trading volume 48 m remained 216474 below 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