shares of albemarle corp alb slid 245 to 20289 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 138 to 451339 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 098 to 3528252 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses albemarle corp closed 13166 short of its 52week high 33455 which the company achieved on november 11th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as avantor inc avtr rose 062 to 2102 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