Monday Sector Leaders: Materials, Industrial

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Monday, shares of Materials companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 0.5%. Within that group, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold (NYSE: FCX) and DuPont (NYSE: DD) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a gain of 5.2% and 4.7%, respectively. Among the high volume ETFs, one ETF closely following materials stocks is the Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF (AMEX: XLB), which is up 1.1% on the day, and up 5.01% year-to-date. Freeport-McMoran...