shares of albemarle corp alb advanced 300 to 25385 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 053 to 401232 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 033 to 3315391 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains albemarle corp closed 8070 below its 52week high 33455 which the company achieved on november 11th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as avantor inc avtr rose 182 to 2459 trading volume 23 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 16 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