shares of albemarle corp alb slid 095 to 22299 monday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 015 to 385576 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 028 to 3181914 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses albemarle corp closed 11156 short of its 52week high 33455 which the company reached on november 11th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors monday as avantor inc avtr rose 089