shares of albemarle corp alb slid 003 to 22230 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 083 to 439976 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 098 to 3475494 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses albemarle corp closed 3080 below its 52week high 25310 which the company reached on september 10th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt rose 253 to 4831 and basf se adr basfy rose 122 to 1827 trading volume 639630 remained 665278 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