Despite starting the week in last place, Energy (XLE) rose to the top of the sector list starting from Tuesday as the first vaccine doses were made available in the UK. That positive vaccine news boosted the sector that is likely to benefit from the increased activity in travel and leisure sectors. Communications (XLC) led at the beginning of the week, but could...
Energy ( XLE ) is now in its fourth week of leading the sectors list. It didn't look that way at the beginning of the week when it sold off off sharply amongst disagreements between OPEC members on future oil production. It rose back to the lead as those talks began getting better on Wednesday and OPEC finally had agreement on Friday. Technology ( XLK ) and...
Energy (XLE) put in a third week of huge gains and topped the other sectors. The sector is up over 40% in the last three weeks. It did pull back a bit on Wed and Fri. Financials (XLF) also sticks out as a winner for the week, far above the rest of the sectors. The worst performing sectors were Real Estate (XLRE) and Utilities (XLU). Utilities briefly emerged as...
Energy (XLE) was the big winner of the week for the second week in a row. Additional positive vaccine news signaled the possibility of several sectors recovering and driving demand for oil and gas. After a poor performance last week, Technology (XLK) followed closely the performance of the S&P 500 index. Utilities (XLU) performed the worst this week, although...
Note: You can click the Yellow markers in the chart and read the Daily Updates for that day. 2) President Tests Positive for COVID, this announcement comes afterhours sending futures to the negative. Eventually he is checked into the hospital for close monitoring. 5) Just a few days after the COVID announcement, the president returns to the whitehouse...
It was a long painful week for all the sectors with the overall S&P 500 index losing -5.64%, worst since March of this year. Utilities (XLU) topped the list of sectors "only" losing -3.66% and remained as the safe place for investors to go to stay into equities instead of the alternatives. There were certainly days that each sector had to shine, but as far as...
This week it was all about Communication Services (XLC) with the positive earnings beat from Snap (SNAP) driving growth in many of the social platform company stock prices. Utilities (XLU) continues to be a safe bet for investors as a sector that is consistently performing well over the past few weeks. Financials (XLF) also had a great week as bond yields are...
Trend lines drawn from 9/3 (31d), 9/24 bottom (17d), 10/12 (5d), and today 10/16 (1 day). The Nasdaq index action today gave us a great summary of the entire week. An amazing start, and a very disappointing end. Just as Monday was an amazing start to the week, today's morning saw gains of over 1% only to disappoint with -0.36% loss by the end of the day. The...
It was a back and forth week with Technology (XLK), Utilities (XLU) and Energy (XLE) all fighting for the top spot. Even Industrials (XLI) made a late effort to end the week at the top. In the end, the safe haven of Utilities (XLU) won the week as investors fled more volatile stocks for something that everyone needs going into the winter. Heat! Communication...
Utilities (XLU) was the steady winner throughout the week, even during the pullback caused by fears of no stimulus deal being reached. For money that wants to stay in equities in lieu of low interest rates and uncertain inflation, utilities is seen as the safest sector. So even as stimulus fears mounted, XLU continued to stay strong compared to the S&P 500. ...
It was a back and forth race for the SPDR ETFs this past week. In the end, Real Estate (XLRE) was the winner. Utilities (XLU) had a week of steady growth but could quite beat out Real Estate. Technology (XLK) did well earlier in the week but sold off at the end on bad news. Energy (XLE) had relatively big gains on Friday, but overall still a loser for the week.
XLU making a strong move today. Not advice.
Holding both XLK and XLU from my original entries given on my channel--linked below.
Today's GDP number has confirmed cyclical inflation, with a devalued dollar (not a longterm, more like 5-10 months) of inflation. For those that don't understand how inflationary economic progress without real (nominal) GDP works, it's bad for everyone except the wall-street facilitating primary dealers and broker dealers. It's that easy. Even though good are...