shares of albemarle corp alb rose 238 to 19223 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 021 to 418396 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 019 to 3330193 the stocks rise snapped a fiveday losing streak albemarle corp closed 9925 short of its 52week high 29148 which the company reached on november 22nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6999 avient corp avnt fell 014 to 5003 and basf se adr basfy fell 061 to 1338 trading volume 10 m remained 159625 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