Equity Strategies Group-Level Analysis Of The Equity Markets

We see insider buying, also some actual value here and an increase in defense spending.

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Performance for the entire Insanity Index has been aided by the inclusion of the Online Brokers in this group. This subset of our index was up almost 24% on average in March, and up 33% YTD.

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Biotech took a big tumble in March, and its 30% loss was the worst performing group. Technology issues were also particularly hard hit with 5 of the next 7 worst performers high tech groups.

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After yet another volatile month, the Leuthold Internet Insanity Index gained over 12% during February.

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Two way market? In February, 15 groups recorded double digit advances (9 were Info. Tech related). But 25 groups had double digit losses.

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Market averages all posted losses in January. 45% of groups in Leuthold coverage better than the 5.1% loss in S&P 500. 43% outperformed DJIA’s 4.8% loss.

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The Leuthold Internet Insanity Index gained over 11% during the month of December, and reached a new all-time high on December 13.

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Group had really ugly 1999, now rated attractive and there are some real values here.

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Group relative strength recently broke out on the upside.

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Q4 performance push sent NASDAQ to record year. Broad sector Information Technology surged 221% in 1999.

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The Leuthold Internet Insanity Index gained nearly 23% during the month of November and, for a short time, broke above the prior high reached in April of this year.

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Information Technology trounced all broad sectors in November and leads YTD as well.

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Group moved from Unattractive to Attractive in one month (someone has to move the goods purchased via the Net).

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The 66 components of the Leuthold Internet Insanity Index gained an average of 6.4% during the month of October, to bring the gain on this index to +84% year to date.

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Beginning this month, “Scanning The Markets” will include almost all the new S&P/MSCI “standardized” narrow industry group classifications as employed in our new publication Leuthold’s Groups.

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Late September surge in price of gold put gold mining group at top of monthly performance table (+26%), followed by Internet Insanity with 12% gain on the month.

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Defense Contractors and Health Care Management both experienced sharp contractions in their quantitative scores and fell into the neutral range.

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Most Internet companies enjoyed a surprisingly steady rise in share prices during the volatile month of September.

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August was a volatile month for most of the “dotcom” companies.

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Thus far in 1999, technology still leads. Seven of the top ten performing groups are technology subsets.

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