shares of albemarle corp alb advanced 298 to 19712 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 048 to 417548 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 020 to 3312879 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak albemarle corp closed 9436 short of its 52week high 29148 which the company reached on november 22nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt rose 157 to 4990 and basf se adr basfy rose 040 to 1252 trading volume 920440 remained 133138 below its 50day average volume of 11 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