Basic materials stocks declined on Wall Street on Tuesday morning, down 0.4%.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.6%, the Nasdaq fell 0.6% and the S&P 500 declined 0.6%.
Some of the biggest gainers among basic materials stocks include:
- Pohang Iron & Steel Co. (PKX): PKX stock is up 3.9% today.
- Kinross Gold Corp (KGC): KGC stock is up 3.2% today.
- Yamana Gold (AUY): AUY stock is up 3.4% today.
- New Gold Inc (NGD): NGD stock is up 2.7% today.
- Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited (AEM): AEM stock is up 2.9% today.
- Novagold Resources Inc (NG): NG stock is up 2.8% today.
- National Steel Corp (SID): SID stock is up 2.9% today.
- Barrick Gold Corp (ABX): ABX stock is up 1.9% today.
- Pan American Silver (PAAS): PAAS stock is up 1.5% today.
- Goldcorp Inc (GG): GG stock is up 1.8% today.
Some of the biggest losers among basic materials stocks include:
- Silver Wheaton Corp (SLW): SLW stock is down 4.2% today.
- Sinopec Shangai Petrochemical Company Ltd (SHI): SHI stock is down 3.0% today.
- Copene-Petroquimica Do Nordeste (BAK): BAK stock is down 3.0% today.
- Minerals Technologies Inc (MTX): MTX stock is down 2.7% today.
- Syngenta Ag (SYT): SYT stock is down 2.0% today.
- Polyone Corp (POL): POL stock is down 1.6% today.
- Balchem Corp (BCPC): BCPC stock is down 1.8% today.
- Schweitzer-Mauduit International (SWM): SWM stock is down 1.6% today.
- Clearwater Paper Corp (CLW): CLW stock is down 1.7% today.
- Trex Company (TREX): TREX stock is down 1.6% 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.
