shares of albemarle corp alb inched 099 higher to 23986 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 024 to 440953 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 062 to 3394440 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains albemarle corp closed 9469 short of its 52week high 33455 which the company achieved on november 11th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as avantor inc avtr fell 024 to 2068 trading volume 13 m remained 851796 below its 50day average volume of 21 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