Basic materials stocks advanced 0.2% on Wall Street on Friday morning.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average pushed 0.2% higher, the Nasdaq was up 0.4% and the S&P 500 climbed 0.2%.
Some of the biggest gainers among basic materials stocks include:
- Century Aluminum Company (CENX): CENX stock is up 1.7% today.
- Alcoa Inc (AA): AA stock is up 1.4% today.
- Aluminum Corporation of China Ltd (ACH): ACH stock is up 1.6% today.
- Commercial Metals Company (CMC): CMC stock is up 1.3% today.
- Packaging Corporation of America (PKG): PKG stock is up 1.0% today.
- Fibria Celulose S.A. (FBR): FBR stock is up 1.1% today.
- Mueller Water Products (MWA): MWA stock is up 1.0% today.
- Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd (HMY): HMY stock is up 0.4% today.
- Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE): GPRE stock is up 1.3% today.
- Georgia Gulf Corp (AXLL): AXLL stock is up 0.8% today.
Some of the biggest losers among basic materials stocks include:
- Actuant Corp (ATU): ATU stock is down 3.0% today.
- Iamgold Corp (IAG): IAG stock is down 1.7% today and down 23.7% in the last month.
- New Gold Inc (NGD): NGD stock is down 2.0% today.
- National Steel Corp (SID): SID stock is down 1.8% today.
- Valhi Inc (VHI): VHI stock is down 1.7% today.
- Hudbay Minerals Inc (HBM): HBM stock is down 1.6% today.
- Yamana Gold (AUY): AUY stock is down 1.6% today and down 24.1% in the last month.
- Agrium Inc (AGU): AGU stock is down 1.5%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited (AEM): AEM stock is down 1.5% today.
- Compania Mina Buenaventura S.A. (BVN): BVN stock is down 1.4% 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.
