shares of albemarle corp alb rose 202 to 24403 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 028 to 453695 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 037 to 3544382 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains albemarle corp closed 040 below its 52week high 24443 which the company reached on august 30th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as wr grace  co gra rose 003 to 6966 avient corp avnt fell 071 to 5013 and basf se adr basfy rose 073 to 1927 trading volume 11 m remained 163924 below its 50day average volume of 13 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