shares of ecolab inc ecl advanced 108 to 18451 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 090 to 451844 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 116 to 3547313 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains ecolab inc closed 690 below its 52week high 19141 which the company reached on july 26th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as procter  gamble co pg rose 106 to 15692 waste management inc wm rose 051 to 16125 and colgatepalmolive co cl rose 084 to 7690 trading volume 662308 remained 459301 below its 50day average volume of 11 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