Sentences with phrase «performing utilities sector»

Contrast that to today's strong - performing utilities sector.

Not exact matches

In the periods since the stock market peaked for the year in January, and after its most recent top mid-March, utilities, traditionally a defensive group of companies, have been the best - performing sector.

In sector news, utilities became one of the worst performing sectors in Wednesday's trade, closing down 1.53 percent, after U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May promised new caps on energy bills.

Utilities was Europe's best - performing sector on Monday, popping 1.39 percent by the close.

If you look in terms of how various sectors performed, the sector that held up the best was utilities, followed by staples.

Weighed down by rising interest rates, real estate and utilities are two of the worst - performing sectors this year.

A big year for utilities and health care The best performing sector in the market is ironically one that's not represented in the Dow Jones Industrials at all.

Although traditional high dividend payers (think the utilities and telecom sectors) have performed strongly in recent years, they've become quite expensive by most valuation metrics.

Utilities have been among the best - performing sectors this year.

Under - performing sectors included utilities, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, natural gas, precious metals and real estate.

Ideally, when it comes to which sectors you're investing in, you'll have a nice mix of both defensive and cyclical stocks — meaning companies that should hold up well in all kinds of markets (like utilities) and others that can be expected to perform particularly well in certain economic environments (like hotels and restaurants, which benefit when the economy is booming).

Underlying the noise is a vision of a domestic banking and finance sector at least partly in line with the picture painted by the venerable Vince Cable: light years from the casino economy, there to perform a utility function, more Captain Mainwaring than Bob Diamond.

At the same time, minimum volatility strategies have been competitive and health care and utilities, traditional defensive sectors, are the second and third best performing sectors year - to - date.

During the last two market downturns, an investor that invested in an equal weighted composite of non-cyclical sectors (staples, healthcare, utilities, and telecom) lost an average of 13 % less than S&P 500 ® index, and the best performing defensive sector averaged losses of roughly 20 % less than the overall market.

The information technology sector is cyclical and generally has performed well in increased interest rate periods, while the utilities sector has significantly underperformed.

In the last couple months the utility sector has finally started to under perform the broad S&P 500, as you can see from the CNNMoney chart above.

I decided to look at sectors who under - performed the broad market and one of such sectors is Utilities, which took a hit lately and year growth amounted only to +4 % compared to +23 % of S&P.