shares of avalonbay communities inc avb rose 160 to 24970 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 138 to 479119 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 098 to 3630238 avalonbay communities inc closed 053 short of its 52week high 25023 which the company reached on december 16th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as equity residential eqr rose 136 to 8938 udr inc udr rose 128 to 5943 and essex property trust inc ess rose 112 to 34651 trading volume 395188 remained 278096 below its 50day average volume of 673284 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