shares of albemarle corp alb inched 004 higher to 25789 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 095 to 416068 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 080 to 3318014 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains albemarle corp closed 3359 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 tuesday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt rose 179 to 5232 and basf se adr basfy rose 018 to 1396 trading volume 985894 remained 318543 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