shares of albemarle corp alb inched 045 higher to 21602 friday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 052 to 450053 and the dow jones industrial average djia falling 006 to 3508974 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak albemarle corp closed 7546 below its 52week high 29148 which the company reached on november 22nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt fell 217 to 4827 and basf se adr basfy fell 016 to 1924 trading volume 659188 remained 378003 below its 50day average volume of 10 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