shares of essex property trust inc ess advanced 109 to 34073 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 178 to 464923 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 160 to 3549270 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak essex property trust inc closed 1717 short of its 52week high 35790 which the company achieved on november 24th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as equity residential eqr rose 144 to 8798 avalonbay communities inc avb rose 150 to 24517 and udr inc udr rose 092 to 5822 trading volume 328415 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 283160 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