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A performance run down for our equity market sectors ranked by March performance.

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A performance run down for our equity market sectors ranked by February performance.

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For the month of January, the S&P 500 gained 7.1% and the DJIA was up 8%. The Russell 2000, a good measure of secondary stocks, gained a lagging 4.4%. Not much beat the DJIA in January.

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For the month of November, the S&P 500 lost 1.9%, with the DJIA down 1.6%. The Russell 2000 (a good measure of secondary issues) was down 3.6%. Blue chip growth groups and Utilities tended to dominate the leaders along with Airlines.

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For the month of October, the S&P 500 gained 2.6%, with the Value Line Composite down 0.1% and the DJIA up 1.7%. Cyclical and blue chip growth groups tended to dominate the leaders while secondary technology oriented groups were concentrated toward the bottom of the list.

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For the month of September, the S&P 500 gained 4.0%, with the Value Line Composite up 2.9% and the DJIA up 4.0%. Consumer related, growth, and blue chip groups dominated the leaders list last month.

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New Dow Jones Industry Groups Unveiled...Another View of Gold, In Dollars and In Francs

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About two thirds of the sectors beat the S&P 500 and DJIA in August (by not going down as much). Secondary stocks, as a class, also went down less than the big stock averages.

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Not many sectors beat the S&P 500 and DJIA in July. Secondary stocks lagged in the month end rally. For the month, only five of our indices registered gains. But there were not any very big losers either.

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Technology jumped back up to a position of market leadership in June with eight of our technology or technology dominated sectors were up 8% or more, compared to the 4.3% gain for the S&P 500. However, Airlines led the parade with a 13% gain.

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Not much happened in May and the market has surged these first three trading days of June. May action is now very old news. Maybe you should just skip this section this month.

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It was a very dull month in our world of sectors, just as it was for the stock market as a whole.

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February was an outstanding month for many secondary stocks and sectors. Our Emerging Growth quantitative theme turned in the best performance. Smaller technology stocks also did very well, but so did a number of growth consumer issues.

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For a change, the Value Line Index and the NASDAQ performed better than the S&P 500 and DJIA. Inflation beneficiaries, High Yield groups and Value stocks did relatively well. Big Growth stocks (especially Drugs) performed poorly. Small technology stocks were also beat up again.

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A performance run down for our sectors, including experimental sectors, ranked by October performance. Most equity sectors went down significantly more than the S&P 500 during October.

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A performance run down for our sectors ranked by September performance, with 3rd quarter and year to date performance also included.

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A performance run down for our sectors, including experimental, ranked by August performance.

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In terms of sectors and groups, May was an interesting month, even though the popular averages ended the month unchanged.

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It was a wild and wooly, hairy and scary market in April, even though the popular averages ended the month only about 1% below where they began. However, the NASDAQ and Value Line measures each declined about 3% over the month.

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The Bond Market – 25 Years Ago: In recent years investors have been conditioned to double digit long-term interest rates, and more than a few think it will always be that way. Memories on Wall Street are notoriously short…..Equity Structure Update: Quite a few changes have been made in recent months. This feature details the current conceptual structure.

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