shares of ecolab inc ecl advanced 247 to 16334 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 099 to 399895 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 051 to 3203690 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains ecolab inc closed 7559 below its 52week high 23893 which the company reached on november 22nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as procter  gamble co pg rose 009 to 14077 ppg industries inc ppg rose 237 to 12295 and clorox co clx rose 010 to 14795 trading volume 10 m remained 180738 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