shares of albemarle corp alb tumbled 1991 to 19702 thursday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 212 to 438026 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 178 to 3431203 the stocks fall snapped a twoday winning streak albemarle corp closed 9446 below its 52week high 29148 which the company achieved on november 22nd the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt fell 213 to 5384 and basf se adr basfy fell 194 to 1919 trading volume 62 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 997917 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