Monday Sector Laggards: Precious Metals, Water Utilities
updated Monday, August 31, 11:11 AMIn trading on Monday, precious metals shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 3%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Yamana Gold (AUY), off about 6.6% and shares of Barrick Gold (ABX) off about 5.9% on the day.
Also lagging the market Monday are water utilities shares, down on the day by about 2.5% as a group, led down by Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo (SBS), trading lower by about 5% and Consolidated Water Company (CWCO), trading lower by about 4.4%.
For MarketNewsVideo.com, I'm Sayoko Murase.