shares of avalonbay communities inc avb slid 120 to 24252 thursday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 072 to 466745 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 000 to 3575469 the stocks fall snapped a threeday winning streak avalonbay communities inc closed 493 short of its 52week high 24745 which the company achieved on november 24th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as equity residential eqr fell 110 to 8663 udr inc udr fell 132 to 5831 and essex property trust inc ess fell 115 to 34460 trading volume 503964 remained 94717 below its 50day average volume of 598681 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