shares of albemarle corp alb shed 105 to 25431 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 030 to 397015 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 071 to 3265670 albemarle corp closed 8024 below its 52week high 33455 which the company reached on november 11th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as avantor inc avtr rose 021 to 2437 trading volume 16 m remained 6519 below