Thursday's ETF with Unusual Volume: VAW
updated Thursday, September 12, 1:03 PMThe Vanguard Materials ETF (VAW) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 527,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 65,000. Shares of VAW were up about 0.6% on the day.
Components of that ETF with the highest volume on Thursday were Freeport-McMoran (FCX), trading up about 3.2% with over 15.1 million shares changing hands so far this session, and United States Steel (X), off about 0.5% on volume of over 8.2 million shares. Livent (LTHM) is the component faring the best Thursday, higher by about 5.4% on the day, while Hecla Mining (HL) is lagging other components of the Vanguard Materials ETF, trading lower by about 5.2%.
For MarketNewsVideo.com, I'm Sayoko Murase.