shares of albemarle corp alb slid 388 to 26042 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 063 to 413215 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 067 to 3299012 the stocks fall snapped a twoday winning streak albemarle corp closed 3106 below its 52week high 29148 which the company achieved on november 22nd the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt fell 105 to 4920 and basf se adr basfy rose 022 to 1371 trading volume 27 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 12 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