shares of principal financial group inc pfg slipped 181 to 6899 monday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 320 to 399124 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 199 to 3224570 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses principal financial group inc closed 1137 short of its 52week high 8036 which the company reached on february 10th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as aflac inc afl fell 115 to 5756 assurant inc aiz fell 404 to 18097 and aegon nv adr aeg fell 138 to 501 trading volume 18 m remained 32122 below its 50day average volume of 18 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