shares of abbott laboratories abt sank 099 to 10754 thursday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 025 to 450189 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 019 to 3521589 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of losses abbott laboratories closed 829 short of its 52week high 11583 which the company reached on july 24th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 043 to 17064 trading volume 48 m remained 199089 below its 50day average volume of 50 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