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BUZZ-Reckitt Benckiser: Soft FY sales outlook, Q2 miss hurts stock

** Consumer goods maker Reckitt Benckiser (Xetra: A0M1W6 - news) 's shares down 2.1 pct, near the bottom of the FTSE, after saying FY sales growth will come in at lower end of 4-5 pct forecast

** Q2 sales growth of 4 pct, missing 4.9 pct consensus flagged by Liberum, due to a scandal over humidifier sanitisers in South Korea

** Shares (Berlin: DI6.BE - news) second-largest losers on the Stoxx 600 Personal & Household Goods Index, with a fifth of their daily avg vols gone through in the first 90 minutes of trade (venkateshasoumithri.mamidipudi.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)