Rough day to be in rubber

IN trading on Thursday, rubber plastics stocks were relative laggards, down on the day by about 0.5%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Fuwei Films Holdings Limited , off about 7.5% and shares of Spartech off about 1.7% on the day.

Also lagging the market Thursday are publishing shares, down on the day by about 0.4% as a group, led down by Scholastic ( SCHL – news – people ) , trading lower by about 11.8% and CSS Industries ( CSS – news – people ) , trading lower by about 3.2%.