shares of smith  nephew plc sn inched down 068 to £1098 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 032 to 749719 smith  nephew plc closed £260 short of its 52week high £1358 which the company achieved on january 11 trading volume 889430 remained 16 million below its 50day average volume of 25 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