shares of associated british foods plc abf advanced 213 to £1990 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 117 to 763711 associated british foods plc closed 8650 pence below its 52week high £2076 which the company reached on march 9 trading volume 692321 remained 760172 below its 50day average volume of 15 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