Equity Strategies Group-Level Analysis Of The Equity Markets

New Biotech holding increased Health Care commitment in Select Industries to 27%.

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For the second month in a row, the NASDAQ was the best performing major index.

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The stock market is off to a poor start in 2003, with the S&P 500 down 4.4%, and the DJIA off 5.4%.

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This thematic group shifted to attractive for February after slow but steady improvement over last six months.

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Based on the broad market comparators, the new year got off to a poor start.

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The broad Tech sector is down significantly from all time highs, but is still not cheap by traditional measures. Upside driver will have to be new earnings momentum developing.

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See strong opportunities after a two year shakeout has left the strongest players standing...now with improved balance sheets. The industry is not going away.

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Despite the strong gains in Q4, the stock market ended 2002 down substantially.

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Technology stocks retreat in December, as our broad tech index lost 16.0%.  However for all of Q4 Tech was up 33%.

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Renaming the Paid To Play Equity Portfolio this month. New name “Select Industries” Equity Portfolio better describes the methodology which drives the construction of this all-equity portfolio.

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We will begin regular coverage of our Homeland Security Theme in next month’s Blue Book—Equity Strategies.

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Technology stocks soar again as our broad tech index gained 26.4% in November.

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At the beginning of October, the Home Improvement Retail group rose to Attractive based on our GS Scoring System. With the November calculation, this group got even more Attractive.

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The stock market rallied in October, with large cap growth stocks leading the way.

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October provided welcomed relief for technology stock investors. After an average loss of 18% for tech stocks in September, the October rebound came along and more than made up for the loss in most cases.

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Upgraded to Attractive for October as a result of three consecutive months of rising quantitative scores.

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September closed the door on a very ugly third quarter.

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Still extremely risky area of equities, but recovery may be near. Currently rank six tech groups “Attractive”.

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Mid-East turmoil and Attractive rating for last five months.

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During August, there was very little differential between the performance of the stock market indices we track.

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