shares of albemarle corp alb shed 119 to 22817 friday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 037 to 440959 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 032 to 3429912 albemarle corp closed 10638 below its 52week high 33455 which the company achieved on november 11th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors friday as avantor inc avtr rose 025 to 1995 trading volume 23 m remained 176120 below its 50day average volume of 24 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