shares of albemarle corp alb rose 302 to 27456 thursday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 106 to 371989 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 046 to 3200125 the stocks rise snapped a fourday losing streak albemarle corp closed 3368 below its 52week high 30824 which the company achieved on september 14th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt fell 109 to 2808 and basf se adr basfy fell 105 to 1086 trading volume 22 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 14 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