Peltz Pushes for DuPont Breakup; Modest Lift for Materials ETFs
September 17, 2014 at 11:40 AM EDT
Shares of Dow component DuPont (NYSE: DD) are trading higher by 4.3% Wednesday on volume that is already more than double the daily average after activist investor Nelson Peltz urged the company to separate its agriculture business from its cyclical chemicals operations. The news is having a...