shares of albemarle corp alb slid 392 to 23334 monday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 090 to 381766 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 049 to 3275754 albemarle corp closed 10121 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 193 to 2030 trading volume 13 m remained 252685 below its 50day average volume of 15 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