shares of associated british foods plc abf inched up 091 to £1992 friday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 032 to 725694 associated british foods plc closed 8450 pence short of its 52week high £2076 which the company achieved on april 24 trading volume 530892 remained 608480 below its 50day average volume of 11 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