S&P 500 Movers: NEM, MU
updated Thursday, December 17, 10:24 AMIn early trading on Thursday, shares of Micron Technology (MU) topped the list of the day's best performing components of the S&P 500 index, trading up 3.1%. Year to date, Micron Technology has lost about 58.6% of its value.
And the worst performing S&P 500 component thus far on the day is Newmont Mining (NEM), trading down 7.4%. Newmont Mining is lower by about 6.6% looking at the year to date performance.
Two other components making moves today are Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold (FCX), trading down 4.6%, and Marathon Petroleum (MPC), trading up 2.8% on the day.
For MarketNewsVideo.com, I'm Sayoko Murase.