prudential plc pru shares inched up 024 to £1039 friday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 032 to 725694 prudential plc closed £343 below its 52week high £1382 which the company achieved on january 27 trading volume 26 m remained 32 million below its 50day average volume of 58 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