shares of albemarle corp alb shed 166 to 25362 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 108 to 411577 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 081 to 3291090 the stocks fall snapped a twoday winning streak albemarle corp closed 3786 short of its 52week high 29148 which the company achieved on november 22nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt fell 315 to 5067 and basf se adr basfy rose 014 to 1398 trading volume 854995 remained 452436 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