shares of albemarle corp alb rallied 257 to 18120 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 038 to 405599 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 068 to 3330187 albemarle corp closed 15335 below its 52week high 33455 which the company achieved on november 11th