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- Clorox (NYSE:CLX) +2.05%, Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:KMB) +1.18%, Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) +0.22% and Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) +0.75% all trade higher on a down day for stock market averages.
- The four household product stocks could be attracting some extra attention on the expectation that the spike in COVID cases globally could lead to incremental sales of cleaning and disinfectant products this quarter and next.
- The interest in investors in defensive stocks is also in play with three of the four offering a dividend yield of over 2%.
