shares of metlife inc met slid 028 to 6747 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 072 to 427404 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 050 to 3398032 metlife inc closed 571 short of its 52week high 7318 which the company reached on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as prudential plc adr puk fell 445 to 2296 assurant inc aiz rose 077 to 17154 and unitedhealth group inc unh fell 021 to 54500 trading volume 31 m remained 13 million below its 50day average volume of 44 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