Hottest Basic Materials Stocks Now – AKS KS WLK NUE
by Portfolio Grader | August 18, 2014 1:15 pm
Basic materials stocks advanced broadly on Wall Street on Monday morning, with the sector seeing an overall increase of 0.6%.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average pushed 0.5% higher, the Nasdaq rose 0.4% and the S&P 500 increased 0.5%.
Some of the biggest gainers among basic materials stocks include:
- AK Steel Holding Corp (AKS[1]): AKS stock is up 3.6% today.
- Kapstone Paper and Packaging Corp (KS[2]): KS stock is up 3.7% today.
- Westlake Chemical Corp (WLK[3]): WLK stock is up 2.2% today.
- Nucor Corp (NUE[4]): NUE stock is up 1.8% today.
- Kronos Worldwide Inc (KRO[5]): KRO stock is up 1.7% today.
- RBC Bearings Inc (ROLL[6]): ROLL stock is up 1.2% today.
- Newmarket Corp (NEU[7]): NEU stock is up 1.5% today.
- Arcelormittal (MT[8]): MT stock is up 1.4% today.
- Ternium S.A. (TX[9]): TX stock is up 1.4% today.
- Albemarle Corp (ALB[10]): ALB stock is up 1.4% today.
Some of the biggest losers among basic materials stocks include:
- Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd (HMY[11]): HMY stock is down 2.3% today.
- Iamgold Corp (IAG[12]): IAG stock is down 2.0% today.
- Aurico Gold Inc (AUQ[13]): AUQ stock is down 1.3% today.
- Novagold Resources Inc (NG[14]): NG stock is down 1.6% today.
- Compania Mina Buenaventura S.A. (BVN[15]): BVN stock is down 1.3%, marking the fourth consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Newmont Mining Corp (NEM[16]): NEM stock is down 1.1% today.
- Barrick Gold Corp (ABX[17]): ABX stock is down 1.1% today.
- Anglogold Ashanti Ltd (AU[18]): AU stock is down 1.0%, marking the fifth consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Royal Gold (RGLD[19]): RGLD stock is down 0.8% today.
- Cliffs Natural Resources Inc (CLF[20]): CLF stock is down 0.8%, marking the fifth consecutive day the stock has decreased.
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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:
- AKS: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/AKS-stock-quote
- KS: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/KS-stock-quote
- WLK: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/WLK-stock-quote
- NUE: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/NUE-stock-quote
- KRO: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/KRO-stock-quote
- ROLL: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/ROLL-stock-quote
- NEU: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/NEU-stock-quote
- MT: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/MT-stock-quote
- TX: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/TX-stock-quote
- ALB: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/ALB-stock-quote
- HMY: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/HMY-stock-quote
- IAG: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/IAG-stock-quote
- AUQ: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/AUQ-stock-quote
- NG: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/NG-stock-quote
- BVN: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/BVN-stock-quote
- NEM: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/NEM-stock-quote
- ABX: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/ABX-stock-quote
- AU: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/AU-stock-quote
- RGLD: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/RGLD-stock-quote
- CLF: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/CLF-stock-quote
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