pearson plc pson shares inched up 051 to £867 thursday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 063 to 787998 pearson plc closed £139 short of its 52week high £1006 which the company reached on november 30 trading volume 11 m remained 787385 below its 50day average volume of 19 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