shares of albemarle corp alb slid 111 to 22877 friday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 075 to 447137 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 109 to 3529476 the stocks fall snapped a threeday winning streak albemarle corp closed 2433 short of its 52week high 25310 which the company achieved on september 10th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors friday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt rose 304 to 5117 and basf se adr basfy fell 027 to 1889 trading volume 904274 remained 312130 below its 50day average volume of 12 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