shares of albemarle corp alb rose 205 to 19589 monday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 024 to 437394 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 049 to 3389260 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains albemarle corp closed 9559 below its 52week high 29148 which the company achieved on november 22nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt fell 100 to 5239 and basf se adr basfy fell 447 to 1646 trading volume 16 m eclipsed 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