shares of albemarle corp alb advanced 228 to 23310 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 138 to 479119 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 098 to 3630238 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains albemarle corp closed 5838 short of its 52week high 29148 which the company reached on november 22nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt rose 241 to 5608 and basf se adr basfy rose 098 to 1743 trading volume 592202 remained 629006 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