shares of colgatepalmolive co cl inched 065 higher to 8163 thursday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 017 to 413062 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 066 to 3330951 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains colgatepalmolive co closed 218 short of its 52week high 8381 which the company reached on august 19th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as procter  gamble co pg rose 023 to 15439 trading volume 32 m remained 17 million below its 50day average volume of 49 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