Hottest Basic Materials Stocks Now – POL AA FCX NUE
by Portfolio Grader | April 14, 2014 6:00 pm
Basic materials stocks rose broadly 0.8% on Wall Street today.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 0.8%, the Nasdaq rose 0.8% and the S&P 500 climbed 0.8%.
Some of the biggest gainers among basic materials stocks include:
- Polyone Corp (POL[1]): POL stock is up 2.7% today.
- Alcoa Inc (AA[2]): AA stock is up 2.6% today.
- Freeport-Mcmoran Copper & Gold (FCX[3]): FCX stock is up 2.3% today.
- Nucor Corp (NUE[4]): NUE stock is up 2.2% today.
- Rio Tinto Plc (RIO[5]): RIO stock is up 2.1% today.
- Packaging Corporation of America (PKG[6]): PKG stock is up 1.8% today.
- Hudbay Minerals Inc (HBM[7]): HBM stock is up 1.9% today.
- Kaiser Aluminum Corp (KALU[8]): KALU stock is up 1.7% today.
- Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc (POT[9]): POT stock is up 1.7% today.
- Celanese Corp (CE[10]): CE stock is up 1.6% today.
Some of the biggest losers among basic materials stocks include:
- Kinross Gold Corp (KGC[11]): KGC stock is down 1.0%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Molycorp Inc (MCP[12]): MCP stock is down 0.8%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Matthews International Corp (MATW[13]): MATW stock is down 0.8%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Berry Plastics Group Inc (BERY[14]): BERY stock is down 0.7%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Simpson Manufacturing Company (SSD[15]): SSD stock is down 0.6%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Monsanto Company (MON[16]): MON stock is down 0.6%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Grupo Simec S.A. De C.V. (SIM[17]): SIM stock is down 0.5% today.
- Sociedad Quimica Y Minera S.A. (SQM[18]): SQM stock is down 0.4% today.
- Westlake Chemical Corp (WLK[19]): WLK stock is down 0.3%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Mueller Water Products (MWA[20]): MWA stock is down 0.3% today.
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Editor’s Note: Returns for the fastest-moving stocks listed here are based on share prices 20 minutes prior to publication of this story.
Endnotes:
- POL: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=POL
- AA: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=AA
- FCX: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=FCX
- NUE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=NUE
- RIO: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=RIO
- PKG: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=PKG
- HBM: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=HBM
- KALU: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=KALU
- POT: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=POT
- CE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CE
- KGC: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=KGC
- MCP: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MCP
- MATW: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MATW
- BERY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=BERY
- SSD: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SSD
- MON: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MON
- SIM: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SIM
- SQM: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SQM
- WLK: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=WLK
- MWA: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MWA
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