smith  nephew plc sn shares inched up 045 to £1226 friday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 074 to 762720 smith  nephew plc closed 9800 pence short of its 52week high £1324 which the company reached on may 30 trading volume 18 m remained 14 million below its 50day average volume of 31 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