shares of franklin resources inc ben slid 279 to 2783 thursday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 185 to 391832 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 166 to 3225486 franklin resources inc closed 654 below its 52week high 3437 which the company achieved on february 2nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as blackrock inc blk fell 342 to 65128 goldman sachs group inc gs fell 206 to 34209 and bank of new york mellon corp bk fell 361 to 4800 trading volume 32 m remained 493628 below its 50day average volume of 37 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