Hottest Basic Materials Stocks Now – CCJ UAN AKS DDC
by Portfolio Grader | July 16, 2014 6:15 pm
Basic materials stocks rose broadly on Wall Street on Wednesday, with the sector seeing an overall increase of 0.7%.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.4%, the Nasdaq increased 0.4% and the S&P 500 pushed 0.4% higher.
Some of the biggest gainers among basic materials stocks include:
- Cameco Corp (CCJ[1]): CCJ stock is up 5.1% today.
- Cvr Partners LP Common Units R (UAN[2]): UAN stock is up 3.3% today.
- AK Steel Holding Corp (AKS[3]): AKS stock is up 3.2% today and up 23.7% in the last month.
- Dominion Diamond Corp (DDC[4]): DDC stock is up 2.5% today on 3 times normal volume.
- Stillwater Mining Company (SWC[5]): SWC stock is up 2.2% today.
- Teck Resources Ltd (TCK[6]): TCK stock is up 2.2% today.
- Yamana Gold (AUY[7]): AUY stock is up 2.1% today.
- Arcelormittal (MT[8]): MT stock is up 2.1%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Steel Dynamics (STLD[9]): STLD stock is up 2.0% today.
- Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd (HMY[10]): HMY stock is up 2.0% today.
Some of the biggest losers among basic materials stocks include:
- Albemarle Corp (ALB[11]): ALB stock is down 1.4% today on 4 times normal volume.
- Curtiss-Wright Corp (CW[12]): CW stock is down 1.2% today.
- Olin Corp (OLN[13]): OLN stock is down 1.1% today.
- Silgan Holdings (SLGN[14]): SLGN stock is down 0.8% today.
- Aptargroup (ATR[15]): ATR stock is down 0.7% today.
- Precision Castparts Corp (PCP[16]): PCP stock is down 0.7% today.
- Crown Cork & Seal Company (CCK[17]): CCK stock is down 0.7% today.
- Celanese Corp (CE[18]): CE stock is down 0.6% today.
- Sonoco Products Company (SON[19]): SON stock is down 0.5% today.
- Greif Bros. Corp (GEF.B[20]): GEF.B stock is down 0.5% 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:
- CCJ: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CCJ
- UAN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=UAN
- AKS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=AKS
- DDC: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=DDC
- SWC: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SWC
- TCK: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=TCK
- AUY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=AUY
- MT: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MT
- STLD: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=STLD
- HMY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=HMY
- ALB: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=ALB
- CW: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CW
- OLN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=OLN
- SLGN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SLGN
- ATR: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=ATR
- PCP: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=PCP
- CCK: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CCK
- CE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CE
- SON: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SON
- GEF.B: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=GEF.B
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