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Materials

-0.41%

median, today

Figures from Wednesday 16 September, the last completed session.

Materials was little changed today, measured as the median of its 25 companies — 3 rose and 12 fell.

The median rather than an average, so one company collapsing on an earnings miss does not become what the whole sector did.

Furthest from the sector

The companies that moved least like their peers today — where a sector-wide explanation stops working.

All 25 companies

Describes moves that have already happened. Not a forecast, and not advice.