shares of albemarle corp alb rallied 113 to 23602 friday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 041 to 467703 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 001 to 3623166 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak albemarle corp closed 5546 short of its 52week high 29148 which the company reached on november 22nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt fell 030 to 5604 and basf se adr basfy rose 129 to 1883 trading volume 794773 remained 360180 below 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