Equity Strategies Group-Level Analysis Of The Equity Markets

With the improvement of the Pharmaceutical group within our GS Score rankings to attractive, along with Biotech’s fall from grace (all the way to unattractive), we are getting a chance to make a move into the drug stocks.

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Technology stocks were particularly hard hit in April, with nine of the 15 worst performing groups being Tech related.

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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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See margin expansion, insider buying and VLT momentum buy signal.

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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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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 over 11% during the month of December, and reached a new all-time high on December 13.

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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 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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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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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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