shares of albemarle corp alb inched 050 higher to 22333 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 038 to 373548 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 050 to 3036483 the stocks rise snapped a fourday losing streak albemarle corp closed 6815 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 fell 105 to 4445 and basf se adr basfy fell 133 to 1260 trading volume 10 m remained 313616 below its 50day average volume of 13 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