shares of albemarle corp alb slid 670 to 26523 monday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 179 to 399884 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 140 to 3394710 albemarle corp closed 6932 short of its 52week high 33455 which the company reached on november 11th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors monday as avantor inc avtr fell 172 to 2235 trading volume 19 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 14 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