What’s Hot, What’s Not

• Browse through our collection of group charts here: set #1 — set #2 — set #3 or…
• For a more detailed breakdown of group movement over various time periods, try the Industry Group Tracker at WSJ Online, the industry group tools at Finviz.com, or the list of Morningstar industry groups at FreeStockCharts.com.

 

Best Performing Industries
Last Week	Last 4 Weeks	Last 8 Weeks
Brokers ($XBD) +5.1%	Natural Gas ($XNG) +7.9%	Oil Services ($OSX) +8.9%
Oil Services +4.8%	Oil ($XOI) +7.3%	Oil +8.4%
Natural Gas +4.5%	Utilities ($UTY) +4.6%	Natural Gas +7.1%
Oil +4.3%	Oil Services +4.5%	Airlines ($XAL) +4.8%
Software ($GSO) +4.0%	Commodities ($CRX) +3.7%	Utilities +4.4%

 

 

Worst Performing Industries
Last Week	Last 4 Weeks	Last 8 Weeks
Gold & Silver ($XAU) -2.6%	Biotech ($BTK) -8.9%	Gold & Silver -12.4%
Housing ($HGX) +0.2%	Gold & Silver -8.5%	Biotech -11.3%
Paper ($DJUSPP) +0.8%	Disk Drives ($DDX) -6.1%	Paper -8.9%
Retail (XRT) +1.0%	Brokers -5.4%	Housing -7.0%
Banks ($BKX) +1.4%	Banks -5.1%	Software -6.2%

 

Weekend Sector Scan

A bounceback week for the sector SPDRs heading in to the holiday:

 

 

So the table regains some green:

 

Sector	Symbol	8 Wk % Chg	4 Wk % Chg	1 Wk % Chg	YTD % Chg
Energy	XLE	+7.4%	+6.6%	+4.9%	+4.9%
Consumer Staples	XLP	+4.9%	+2.7%	+2.1%	+1.6%
Utilities	XLU	+4.3%	+4.4%	+1.5%	+11.4%
Basic Materials	XLB	+2.9%	+0.3%	+3.2%	+2.9%
Industrials	XLI	+2.6%	+2.1%	+3.6%	+1.0%
Financials	XLF	+1.8%	-2.4%	+2.7%	+0.1%
Technology	XLK	+0.2%	-0.8%	+2.4%	+0.8%
Consumer Discretionary	XLY	-2.2%	-2.9%	+2.5%	-4.6%
Health Care	XLV	-3.3%	-2.2%	+2.1%	+2.6%

 

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