shares of albemarle corp alb sank 007 to 24466 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 042 to 412247 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 018 to 3277441 the stocks fall snapped a twoday winning streak albemarle corp closed 4682 below its 52week high 29148 which the company achieved on november 22nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt rose 005 to 4407 and basf se adr basfy fell 079 to 1132 trading volume 752541 remained 601145 below 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