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Managing Risk With Key S&P Sector ETFs
Salil Mehta • Thu, May 23 • 2 Comments
The Market Has Called The Fed's Bluff
John Rothe • Thu, May 23 • 1 Comment
Chicago Fed: Manufacturing Is Softening
Cullen Roche • Mon, May 20 • 3 Comments
2 Industrial ETFs Your Broker Forgot To Mention
Benzinga • Fri, May 17
U.S. Economy In March - Spring Swoon Has Arrived
Stephen Aniston • Thu, May 16 • 10 Comments
The Philly Fed Business Outlook Survey: May 2013
Sold At The Top • Thu, May 16
Stocks Ignore Still Weak Economy
Vahan Janjigian • Wed, May 15 • 2 Comments
S&P 500 Sector Trading Range Charts
Bespoke Investment Group • Wed, May 15 • 1 Comment
Industrial Output In April Slumps The Most In Eight Months
James Picerno • Wed, May 15
Weaker-Than-Expected Empire Manufacturing
Bespoke Investment Group • Wed, May 15 • 1 Comment
Cyclical Sector Shifts Could Put Industrial ETFs In The Lead
Tom Lydon • Tue, May 14
U.S. Industrial Production: April 2013 Preview
James Picerno • Tue, May 14
S&P 500 Sector Breadth Levels
Bespoke Investment Group • Mon, May 13 • 3 Comments
Recent Asset Class Performance
Bespoke Investment Group • Sun, May 12
Sell In May? Maybe A Little, But Rotate
Howard Reisman • Wed, May 8 • 19 Comments
U.S. GDP Overview: Manufacturing
Hale Stewart • Mon, May 6
These Are Not Your Father's Industrials
Harvey Malovich • Sun, May 5
S&P 500 Sector Trading Range Charts
Bespoke Investment Group • Fri, May 3
ISM Manufacturing Report On Business: April 2013
Sold At The Top • Wed, May 1
Lackluster Manufacturing Report
Calafia Beach Pundit • Wed, May 1 • 2 Comments

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Take Advantage Of Lagging Industrials With A Single ETF
Morningstar • Wed, Sep 19, 2012 • 2 Comments
Tuesday's ETF Chart To Watch: Industrial Select Sector SPDR (XLI)
Stoyan Bojinov • Tue, Jul 3, 2012
An Option Play On Further Industrial Weakness
John R. Conway • Wed, Jun 6, 2012
I See European Infection In New York Manufacturing Data
Markos Kaminis • Tue, May 15, 2012 • 1 Comment
International Trade Data Positives Prove Suspect
Markos Kaminis • Sun, May 13, 2012 • 1 Comment
Manufacturing Report Offers Disturbing Data For The Discerning
Markos Kaminis • Tue, Apr 3, 2012 • 3 Comments
Historical Data Suggests Industrial Goods Weak Through May, Caterpillar Strong
The Oxen Group • Wed, Mar 28, 2012 • 1 Comment
Wednesday's ETF Chart To Watch: Industrial Select Sector SPDR
Stoyan Bojinov • Wed, Mar 28, 2012
September Durable Goods Report Brings Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF Into Focus
Michael Johnston • Wed, Oct 26, 2011
Wednesday's ETF To Watch: Industrial Select Sector SPDR
Eric Dutram • Wed, Sep 28, 2011
Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF in Focus on Key Data Release
Michael Johnston • Tue, Aug 16, 2011
Bears Raising Stakes on Industrial Sector
optionMONSTER • Wed, Apr 6, 2011
Transportation Takes on Terrorism and Wins
Brian Rezny • Sun, Mar 13, 2011
Industrial Fund Draws Put Action
optionMONSTER • Mon, Jan 24, 2011
Industrials Are the S&P 500's Engine
optionMONSTER • Fri, Jan 14, 2011
Thursday's ETF to Watch: Industrial Sector SPDR
Eric Dutram • Thu, Dec 23, 2010
Mixed News from Empire State Manufacturing Index
Sold At The Top • Wed, Dec 15, 2010 • 1 Comment
Industrial Production Rises
Hale Stewart • Wed, Dec 15, 2010 • 1 Comment
Today's Labor Report May Be Moment of Truth
optionMONSTER • Fri, Jul 2, 2010 • 1 Comment
Five Head-to-Head ETF Matchups to Keep an Eye on
Michael Johnston • Fri, Jun 4, 2010 • 2 Comments

Managing Risk With Key S&P Sector ETFs
Salil Mehta • Thu, May 23 • 2 Comments
The Market Has Called The Fed's Bluff
John Rothe • Thu, May 23 • 1 Comment
Chicago Fed: Manufacturing Is Softening
Cullen Roche • Mon, May 20 • 3 Comments
2 Industrial ETFs Your Broker Forgot To Mention
Benzinga • Fri, May 17
U.S. Economy In March - Spring Swoon Has Arrived
Stephen Aniston • Thu, May 16 • 10 Comments
The Philly Fed Business Outlook Survey: May 2013
Sold At The Top • Thu, May 16
Stocks Ignore Still Weak Economy
Vahan Janjigian • Wed, May 15 • 2 Comments
S&P 500 Sector Trading Range Charts
Bespoke Investment Group • Wed, May 15 • 1 Comment
Industrial Output In April Slumps The Most In Eight Months
James Picerno • Wed, May 15
Weaker-Than-Expected Empire Manufacturing
Bespoke Investment Group • Wed, May 15 • 1 Comment
Cyclical Sector Shifts Could Put Industrial ETFs In The Lead
Tom Lydon • Tue, May 14
U.S. Industrial Production: April 2013 Preview
James Picerno • Tue, May 14
S&P 500 Sector Breadth Levels
Bespoke Investment Group • Mon, May 13 • 3 Comments
Recent Asset Class Performance
Bespoke Investment Group • Sun, May 12
Sell In May? Maybe A Little, But Rotate
Howard Reisman • Wed, May 8 • 19 Comments
U.S. GDP Overview: Manufacturing
Hale Stewart • Mon, May 6
These Are Not Your Father's Industrials
Harvey Malovich • Sun, May 5
S&P 500 Sector Trading Range Charts
Bespoke Investment Group • Fri, May 3
ISM Manufacturing Report On Business: April 2013
Sold At The Top • Wed, May 1
Lackluster Manufacturing Report
Calafia Beach Pundit • Wed, May 1 • 2 Comments

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Cramer: Early Sign of Froth in the Market

at CNBC.com (May 9, 2013)
Stock Market Rally: Earnings OK, but Revenue Growth in Trouble

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Behind the Decline: Jim Cramer's Sell-Off Strategies

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Stock Market Hits All-Time High, Now What?

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Fast: Do Bulls Have History on Their Side?

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Cramer: Is China Stronger Than You Think?

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If This is the Start of a Correction, It's Going to be Pretty Tame

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Global Growth Fears Weigh on Stocks, Poor Market Internals Continue

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J.J. Zhang's Winner Take All: A stock strategy to weather the downturn

at MarketWatch.com (Apr 2, 2013)
Cramer: Amid Risk-On, Consumer Staples Stock Gains Too

at CNBC.com (Mar 20, 2013)
Market Snapshot: Stocks could use a ‘goldilocks’ jobs report

at MarketWatch.com (Mar 3, 2013)
Jim Cramer: Single Most Important Investing Concept

at CNBC.com (Feb 11, 2013)
Cramer: Stock Gains Have Unexpected Ties to Super Bowl

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Cramer's Game Plan: CAT, YHOO and 10 Other Hot Stocks

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Top ETFs for Earnings Season: Matt Hougan

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Your First Move for Monday January 14th

at CNBC.com (Jan 11, 2013)
Howard Gold's No-Nonsense Investing: Here come the market leaders of 2013

at MarketWatch.com (Jan 11, 2013)
Weekend Investor: 10 money-making investment ideas for 2013

at MarketWatch.com (Dec 21, 2012)
Kudlow: Sell-Off Presents Market Opportunities Galore!

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Mark Hulbert: September is a downer

at MarketWatch.com (Sep 4, 2012)

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The Industrial Select Sector SPDR® Fund, before expenses, seeks to closely match the returns and characteristics of the Industrial Select Sector Index. Our approach is designed to provide portfolios with low portfolio turnover, accurate tracking, and lower costs.
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Sector: Industrial Goods

Country: United States

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Tuesday, May 21, 8:49 AM Exponential rapidly rising or falling markets usually go further than you think, but they do not correct by going sideways," is #4 of Bob Farrell's "Market Rules to Remember." Channeling that, BAML's Steve Suttmeier sees stocks continuing their run with risks of a topping-out not arriving unti late summer. He's most bullish on industrials (XLI) - particularly "oversold" EXPD, DE, CAT, FDX - and also thinks financials (XLF) will remain market leaders. 4 Comments
Monday, May 6, 7:27 AM The S&P 500 (SPY) is fairly valued, says Goldman, but opportunity lies in cyclicals (XLY, XLE, XLI, XLB) which are more undervalued vs. defensives (XLU, XLP, XLV, XTL) than at any time in the last 15 years. "Given the 4 P/E multiple point head start, even a slight valuation normalization should translate into outperformance of cyclicals over defensives during the next 12 months." 1 Comment
Friday, May 3, 12:54 PM Stocks remain sharply higher midday (SPY +1.2%), with the year's leaders - healthcare (XLV +0.7%), utilities (XLU +0.2%), and staples (XLP +0.7%) - lagging, and the year's laggers - industrials (XLI +2.1%), tech (XLK +1.1%), and energy (XLE +1.9%) - leading. Treasurys (TLT -2.1%) are suffering one of their worst days of the year, and broader fixed income (AGG -0.3%). 1 Comment
Friday, May 3, 8:00 AM "We don't want to sell in May and we continue to prefer cyclicals (XLY, XLI, XLB, XLE) ," says JPMorgan's Tom Lee, fully returned to his normal bullish stance. He notes client positioning is "dramatically different" from the heavily long stance of the last 3 years at this time. More, the downturn in gasoline prices could ad 50 bps to GDP in Q2, and the rally in high-yield suggests the economy is set to get stronger. 1 Comment
Wednesday, April 3, 8:00 AM Something for the technicians to have a look at is this chart from ukarlewitz noting small-caps (IWM) have joined the industrials (XLI) and semiconductors (SMH) in slipping below their long-term uptrend line. Oversold in an uptrend tends to get bought, he says. It's a key time. 3 Comments
Friday, March 8, 2:59 PM A check of sector performance YTD finds financials (XLF), consumer discretionary (XLY), healthcare (XLV), consumer staples (XLP), energy (XLE), and industrials (XLI) all ahead of SPY's 9% gain. Utilities (XLU) are lagging just a bit, but the biggest drag is tech (XLK), up 4.9%. Not bad considering Apple's 19% decline. Comment!
Thursday, January 24, 1:31 PM A look at the relative strength of S&P 500 sectors vs. the overall average over the past year finds 3 - Consumer Discretionary (XLY), Financials (XLF), and Health Care (XLV) outperforming. Big outperformers a few months back, Telecom (IYZ) and Utilities (XLU) now trail. Underperforming badly not long ago, Energy (XLE) and Industrials (XLI) claw their way back. 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 8, 3:29 PM Vanguard's recent expense reduction means 9 of its 10 sector ETFs are now the cheapest available to U.S. investors. With an annual expense ratio of just 0.14%, VOX, VPU, VCR, VDC, VDE, VHT, VIS, VGT, and VAW stack up favorably vs. the 0.18% charged by State Street's Sector SPDRs (XLU, XLY, XLP, XLE, XLF, XLV, XLK, XLI, XLB and XTL which charges 0.35%) and the 0.47%-0.48% iShares sector ETFs (RXI, KXI, IYE, IYF, IYZ, IYH, IDU, IYW, IYM, IYJ) charge. At 0.19%, Vanguard Financials (VFH) is still slightly more expensive than the Financial SPDR (XLF). 2 Comments
Monday, January 7, 9:16 AM With the S&P at a new bull market high, Bespoke looks at sector performance since the last peak on Sept. 14. Leading the pack in the 4-month span are the financials (XLF) +5.2%, followed by Industrials (XLI) +3.6%, and Healthcare (XLV) +3.5%. Bringing up the rear are tech (XLK) -6.9% and Energy (XLE) -3.4%. Comment!
Thursday, December 6, 2012, 1:05 PM The return of manufacturing to the U.S. is just getting started, writes Charles Fishman, telling the remarkable story of the rebirth of GE's giant Appliance Park, which employed 23K in 1973 and less than 2K 28 years later. Assembly lines are moving again as GE invests $800M. "I don't do that because I run a charity," says Jeff Immelt. "We can do it here and make more money." 14 Comments [U.S. Economy]
Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 5:21 PM A look at sector performance in the 2 months since the Fed's QE∞ announcement finds tech (XLK), -11.6% the laggard by a wide margin. The materials sector (XLB) has about matched SPY's 7.3% decline. The top performer is healthcare (XLV), -2.7%. Industrials (XLI), staples (XLP), discretionary (XLY), financials (XLF), and utilities (XLU) have marginally bested the S&P. 4 Comments
Monday, November 5, 2012, 7:58 AM Reporting Q3 profit off 85% from a year ago, Liugong Machinery President Zeng Guang'an warns of continued overcapacity in the Chinese construction-equipment sector, saying the country only needs about 10% of the current 200 firms in the business. "We have too much investment. We need more consumption." Comment! [Global & FX]
Friday, October 19, 2012, 3:42 PM Dip-buyers thinking about buying the close today might find better prices on offer Monday as Caterpillar (CAT -3.1%) reports at 7:30 ET. Parker Hannifin (PH -7.5%) after it cut its outlook earlier today: "We were probably a little exuberant in what we thought might happen in China." CAT's CEO at a conference this week: China is "changing in front of our eyes." 7 Comments [Global & FX, U.S. Economy]
Friday, October 19, 2012, 9:10 AM "Investors need to understand the growing risks of overplaying the defense card," writes AllianceBernstein's Joe Paul, exploring whether high-yield stocks are in bubble territory. It's not news they're expensive compared to past metrics, but high-yielders now make up a record 44% of the S&P 500 (on a cap-weighted basis). "As a countermeasure, (investors) may want to add more cyclical, deeper-value names." 2 Comments
Friday, October 19, 2012, 8:54 AM Technicians get interested in the industrial sector (XLI) as the charts say there's a move coming, "and it's not going to be a boring one." The direction is not yet known, but J.C. Parets is giving the benefit of the doubt to the bulls. Wait for weekly closes above $38. The XLI -1.3% premarket, as its largest holding, GE, slides following earnings. Comment! [U.S. Economy]
Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 2:29 PM Heavy equipment makers lag the broader market after Caterpillar (CAT -3.2%) lowered its 2015 guidance due to slumping demand for mining equipment as well as a sluggish global economic recovery. CAT's cautious forecast is infecting other stocks that also depend on countries like China to keep building homes and factories: JOY -4%, TEX -4.2%, MTW -5.5%. 4 Comments [Global & FX, On the Move]

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Daniel Nadler
Ford historically averages a gain of 1.29% in the week following its earnings: http://goo.gl/QWRoU $F $SPY $XLI
Apr 22, 3:47 PM
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Daniel Nadler
Caterpillar historically averages a gain of 4.21% in the week following its earnings: http://goo.gl/xOWrW $CAT $SPY $XLI
Apr 22, 8:53 AM
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Daniel Nadler
Caterpillar historically averages a gain of 4.21% in the week following its earnings: http://goo.gl/WaHFl $CAT $SPY $XLI
Apr 21, 7:10 PM
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U.S. Economy In February - Consumers Keep Spending by:Stephen Aniston. $GLD $OIL $SPY $UUP $XHB $XLF $XLI $XLP $XLY http://bit.ly/16FfL1R
Apr 7, 12:40 AM
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Daniel Nadler
Which Sectors Typically Outperform in March?: http://goo.gl/xLZCQ $SPY $XLF $XLB $XLI $XLY $XLK $XLP $XLV $XLE $XLU $DIA $QQQ
Feb 28, 11:19 AM
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Dr. Kris
In more risk-on news--sector highs: Financials $XLF, Insurance $KIE, Materials $XLB, Industrials $XLI.
Jan 10, 3:22 PM
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Dr. Kris: And pink bunny slippers.
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Wall Street Sector Selector
Consumer Sentiment Has 2007 Flashback (XLY) (XLP (XLI)
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Good News From Non Farm Payrolls Report, Stocks Sell Off = Bad News (XLI) (XLY) (XLP) (XLK)
11/2/12
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Wall Street Sector Selector
Chicago Purchasing Managers Index Fizzles (XLI) (XLB) (XLP) (IYF)
10/31/12
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Dr. Kris
In more risk-on news--sector highs: Financials $XLF, Insurance $KIE, Materials $XLB, Industrials $XLI.
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Cabeza Howe
Outperformers today: $XHB $XLI $XLY $XLB $XLF $KBE $CAF $GXC $FXI ($VRA $COH $PHM $TOL $CAT $CMI $YUM). Does this carry any meaning?
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Cabeza Howe: Dow Transport (5,156.54 +0.15%) doing fine too. $IYT
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Anticipate heavy bankster selling tomorrow. SPY, XLI, XLF
10/10/12
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FortSumter: Was thinking of a short term options call on the XLF to play any upside to JOM and WFC earnings. You ever done that before?
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Michael Kudrna
BreakoutTrader: Quick Charts - $XLI Strong Uptrend $SPY $IWM $QQQ $DIA $$ #KSMT http://bit.ly/zlaQWG
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cheme: 38 target...all due to CAT.
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Windsun33
Past 3 days sold out of HD LL LOW XLI XLY NOG JEF AA
12/5/11
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Windsun33: Right now, nothing. I don't trust this rally so been taking profits. Still holding BTU FCX AGNC GLW ACI and a few tiny positions in others
12/5/11
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John Rayhall: Nice that's cool I think FCX BTU and ACI should do well this month.
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