Basic materials stocks advanced 0.1% on Wall Street so far on Wednesday.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was unchanged, the Nasdaq remained flat and the S&P 500 stayed consistent.
Some of the biggest gainers among basic materials stocks include:
- Barrick Gold Corp (ABX): ABX stock is up 3.4%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Domtar Corp (UFS): UFS stock is up 3.1% today.
- National Steel Corp (SID): SID stock is up 1.6% today.
- Precision Castparts Corp (PCP): PCP stock is up 1.8% today.
- Teck Resources Ltd (TCK): TCK stock is up 1.6%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- United States Steel Corp (X): X stock is up 2.3% today.
- Syngenta Ag (SYT): SYT stock is up 1.9% today.
- Aluminum Corporation of China Ltd (ACH): ACH stock is up 2.3% today.
- Ternium S.A. (TX): TX stock is up 2.3% today.
- Mrc Global Inc (MRC): MRC stock is up 0.9% today.
Some of the biggest losers among basic materials stocks include:
- Eldorado Gold Corp (EGO): EGO stock is down 17.0% today.
- Iamgold Corp (IAG): IAG stock is down 3.3% today.
- Balchem Corp (BCPC): BCPC stock is down 2.6% today.
- Silgan Holdings (SLGN): SLGN stock is down 2.0%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Aurico Gold Inc (AUQ): AUQ stock is down 1.9% today.
- New Gold Inc (NGD): NGD stock is down 1.1% today.
- Weyerhaeuser Company (WY): WY stock is down 0.9% today.
- Ashland Inc (ASH): ASH stock is down 0.9% today.
- Kaiser Aluminum Corp (KALU): KALU stock is down 0.4% today.
- Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG): SMG stock is down 0.8% 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.
