shares of ecolab inc ecl shed 407 to 16847 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 281 to 417520 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 238 to 3324018 ecolab inc closed 7046 short of its 52week high 23893 which the company reached on november 22nd the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as procter  gamble co pg fell 170 to 15979 ppg industries inc ppg fell 266 to 12590 and clorox co clx fell 322 to 14627 trading volume 17 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 16 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