shares of caterpillar inc cat slid 309 to 24614 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 153 to 398637 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 172 to 3285646 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses caterpillar inc closed 1990 short of its 52week high 26604 which the company achieved on january 27th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as deere  co de fell 178 to 41815 trading volume 30 m remained 207172 below its 50day average volume of 32 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