shares of albemarle corp alb rallied 335 to 29695 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 069 to 389989 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 064 to 3101968 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains albemarle corp closed 1129 below its 52week high 30824 which the company reached on september 14th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt rose 299 to 3788 and basf se adr basfy rose 278 to 1072 trading volume 11 m remained 129932 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