shares of essex property trust inc ess shed 059 to 21405 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 030 to 413628 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 014 to 3334860 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses essex property trust inc closed 8628 short of its 52week high 30033 which the company reached on august 16th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as avalonbay communities inc avb fell 084 to 17866 equity residential eqr fell 054 to 6246 and udr inc udr fell 031 to 4125 trading volume 276401 remained 143574 below its 50day average volume of 419975 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