shares of albemarle corp alb slipped 058 to 20967 monday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 002 to 439169 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 011 to 3441169 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses albemarle corp closed 8181 below its 52week high 29148 which the company reached 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 037 to 4672 and basf se adr basfy fell 021 to 1393 trading volume 564293 remained 587832 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