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Sector Performance: The Bad Weeks Pile UP

Last week was another week where not 1 single industry squeezed out a gain. There were only 9 that managed to outperform the S&P 500. And if you remember yesterday’s post, the S&P is not too healthy in its own right. Obviously things are not looking so good anywhere right now. Here is the list of the best and worst performing industries.

Performance versus the S&P 500
Rank Industry % Return +/- the S&P % up/down
1 PHOTO EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES 4.93% -1.58 %
2 UTILITY-ELECTRIC POWER 3.41% -3.00%
3 UTILITY-TELEPHONE 3.03% -3.36%
4 BEVERAGES 2.33% -4.01%
5 MEDICAL PRODUCTS 1.93% -4.39%
6 BANKS & THRIFTS 1.73% -4.59%


As you can see, last week we had some big losers. Here are the week’s poorest performing industries:

Performance versus the S&P 500
Rank Industry % Return +/- the S&P % up/down
59 of 59 ENERGY-ALTERNATE SOURCES -13.65% -19.00%
58 ELECTRONIC-SEMICONDUCTORS -8.60% -14.27%
57 REAL ESTATE -8.40% -14.08%
56 OIL MACHINERY-SERVICES-DRILLING -7.62% -13.34%
55 COAL -7.32% -13.06%
54 LEISURE SERVICE -7.25% -13.00%

Our Technical Analysis did uncover a few industries with new buy & sell signals.

(click on the industry to see a list of the best and worst performing stocks in the industry)

BUY

SELL

Posted: November 18th, 2008 under Sector Performance, technical analysis.
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