What’s Hot, What’s Not
Notes on the latest moves in the industry groups:
- After another expiration week pop in the indices, the groups remain in fairly good shape. Housing and HMOs are still the weakest of the bunch.
- Browse through all of the group charts here: set #1 — set #2 — set #3 — set #4.
- For a more detailed breakdown of group movement over various time periods, try Prophet.net’s Industry Rankings page., the Industry Group Tracker at WSJ Online, or the industry group tools at Finviz.com.
| Best Performing Industries | ||
|---|---|---|
| Last Week | Last 4 Weeks | Last 8 Weeks |
| Oil ($XOI) +4.8% | Hospitals ($RXH) +8.4% | Hospitals +20.4% |
| Oil Services ($OSX) +4.2% | Natural Gas ($XNG) +6.6% | Gold & Silver ($XAU) +19.8% |
| Paper ($DJUSPP) +4.1% | Oil Services +6.0% | Airlines ($XAL) +17.7% |
| Natural Gas +3.3% | Oil +5.4% | Paper +16.8% |
| Housing ($HGX) +3.2% | Paper +5.2% | Metals & Mining (XME) +15.8% |
| Worst Performing Industries | ||
|---|---|---|
| Last Week | Last 4 Weeks | Last 8 Weeks |
| HMOs ($HMO) -2.9% | HMOs -9.4% | HMOs -6.9% |
| Disk Drives ($DDX) -2.6% | Housing -6.2% | Housing -0.9% |
| Comp. Hardware ($HWI) -2.0% | REITs ($DJR) -5.7% | Utilities ($UTY) -0.4% |
| REITs -1.3% | Steel ($DJUSST) -5.7% | Banks ($BKX) +0.4% |
| Semiconductors ($SOX) -1.1% | Airlines -4.1% | Health Care ($HCX) +2.1% |
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