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S&P 500 Sector Watch

Posted on October 26th, 2009
Written by Richard

Only tech gained any ground this week, but energy stocks remain in the driver’s seat this month.

S&P 500 Sector Watch

Posted on October 16th, 2009
Written by Richard

For all of you excited about the 10k dow, consider for a moment the dying US Dollar. Is the whole bull market of 2009 built on our devalued currency? Check out this somewhat depressing post at instapundit, and its accompanying chart of the DOW vs. the CPI (click to enlarge):

Seen this way, [...]

S&P 500 Sector Watch

Posted on October 9th, 2009
Written by Richard

This is quite an about face from last week’s performance. It was a strong week across the board, but especially in Energy, which picked up a quick 8%. For the year, though, Materials and Tech still dominate.
When you look around and everyone is sooo sure the market’s about to drop, that’s when you [...]

S&P 500 Sector Watch

Posted on October 3rd, 2009
Written by Richard

If you look over all of the sector-watch posts, you can see that the Financals have been pretty consistently weak of late. This week, you’d only be happy if you had put all of your eggs in Consumer Staples, but even then not by much. A bad start for October, and the permabears [...]

S&P 500 Sector Watch

Posted on September 25th, 2009
Written by Richard

A red week, but all of the S&P 500 sectors save financials remain green for the month. Materials were hit hardest by far, dropping 4.6% this week, yet it is still the top performing sector of 2009. I guess volatility has its rewards! So if you are looking to hop on the [...]

S&P 500 Sector Watch

Posted on September 18th, 2009
Written by Richard

It was another strong week in the markets, with all sectors now turning green for the month. Health care and utilities continue to be the laggards in this environment, while materials stocks are putting on a strong show on all three time frames. This was also a relatively soft week and month for [...]

S&P 500 Sector Watch

Posted on September 11th, 2009
Written by Richard

The energy sector rebounded strong, having been one of the weakest sectors last week. Though financials are up this week, they certainly aren’t leading the way here. They were in the middle of the pack this week, and the weakest sector last week. I’ll be keeping my eye on that. Overall, [...]

S&P 500 Sector Watch

Posted on September 4th, 2009
Written by Richard

Wow, a bloody week, and a bloody start of the month! If you bought all of the sectors at last Friday’s close, you’d only be green on your consumer staples, up a measly 0.28%. Energy and Financials were hit the hardest. The month and year-to-date charts tell a milder story. It [...]

Sector Watch

Posted on August 28th, 2009
Written by Richard

I’m undecided about whether I would rather have month-to-date, or a trailing four weeks. Same with year-to-date. Any thoughts?
Anyway, if you compare this week to the ytd, they have the same profile in terms of the strongest sectors. You can see at a glance that, outside of financials, this has been a [...]

Sector Watch, Coming Fridays

Posted on August 26th, 2009
Written by Richard

I got this idea from a really cool blog, Lunchtime Playground. I thought, every Friday, I could post a “heat map” of the 9 Sectors of the S&P500 for the week, month-to-date, and year-to-date. That way, we could kinda keep tabs on the overall market health.
I’m going to try this out, and [...]