Thursday Sector Laggards: Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing, Water Utilities

In trading on Thursday, oil & gas refining & marketing shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 1.3%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Longwei Petroleum Investment Hol (LPH), down about 41.3% and shares of Northern Tier Energy Limited (NTI) down about 2.2% on the day.