shares of intercontinental hotels group plc ihg inched up 084 to £5254 friday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 032 to 725694 intercontinental hotels group plc closed £542 below its 52week high £5796 which the company achieved on february 6 trading volume 376437 remained 314882 below its 50day average volume of 691319 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