shares of albemarle corp alb slipped 109 to 19846 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 057 to 429612 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 070 to 3404946 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of losses albemarle corp closed 9302 short of its 52week high 29148 which the company achieved on november 22nd the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors monday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt rose 031 to 5174 and basf se adr basfy remained unchanged trading volume 15 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 11 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