shares of essex property trust inc ess slipped 158 to 32253 friday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 091 to 443299 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 048 to 3458488 the stocks fall snapped a twoday winning streak essex property trust inc closed 1490 short of its 52week high 33743 which the company reached on september 2nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as equity residential eqr fell 186 to 8026 avalonbay communities inc avb fell 169 to 21989 and udr inc udr fell 106 to 5318 trading volume 521042 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 278165 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