Friday Sector Leaders: Materials, Industrial

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Friday, shares of Materials companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 2.6%. Within that group, CF Industries Holdings Inc (NYSE: CF) and Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) are two of the day's stand-outs, showing a gain of 5.8% and 5.2%, respectively. Among the high volume ETFs, one ETF closely following materials stocks is the Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF (AMEX: XLB), which is up 2.3% on the day, and up 8.87% year-to-date. CF Industries Holding...