next plc nxt shares dropped 258 to £6800 monday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 082 to 783671 next plc closed £536 short of its 52week high £7336 which the company achieved on february 7 trading volume 259969 remained 173619 below its 50day average volume of 433588 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