smiths group plc smin shares inched up 059 to £1629 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 064 to 745369 smiths group plc closed £178 short of its 52week high £1807 which the company achieved on february 16 trading volume 357245 remained 450876 below its 50day average volume of 808121 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