shares of albemarle corp alb inched 018 higher to 21185 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 043 to 450021 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 025 to 3458357 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak albemarle corp closed 7963 short of its 52week high 29148 which the company achieved on november 22nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt fell 030 to 4590 and basf se adr basfy rose 102 to 1388 trading volume 837304 remained 340389 below 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