diageo plc dge shares rallied 279 to £3447 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 180 to 758820 diageo plc closed £513 short of its 52week high £3960 which the company achieved on august 19 trading volume 23 m remained 13 million below its 50day average volume of 36 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