Wednesday Sector Leaders: Materials, Consumer Products

The best performing sector as of midday Wednesday is the Materials sector, up 1.1%. Within the sector, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold (NYSE: FCX) and Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) are two of the day's stand-outs, showing a gain of 10.0% and 4.8%, respectively. Among the high volume ETFs, one ETF closely following materials stocks is the Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF (AMEX: XLB), which is up 0.9% on the day, and up 9.30% year-to-date. Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold, meanwhile, is up 65.88% year-to-da...