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US Sector Historical Return Profiles During USD Price (DXY Index) Uptrends

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At ETFsector.com we provide tools and insights to help our community appreciate and understand the benefits of sector investing.  We are pleased to offer the fourth installment of our deep history Sector Trend Studies to provide you with a deeper understanding of the historical behavior of these groups of businesses in relation to broad market […]

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XLY Consumer Discretionary Sector SPDR July Outlook—Discretionary stocks may have finally put in a durable low in June as investors shift views on Fed. policy expectations from hawkish to dovish

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XLY has shown signs of bottoming as inflation has continued to dissipate.  Investors are starting to gain conviction that the Fed. will be more accommodative to equities in its forward interest rate policy prescriptions as a flagging consumer and slowing industrial production have the potential to supplant inflation as a primary concern.

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Elev8 Sector Rotation Model Portfolio: July Positioning & June Performance Recap

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Going naked the Discretionary Sector during a month where it ended up outperforming resulted in a small loss (-20bps).  We start out July with more beta in the portfolio and bigger bets on leadership sectors (XLK, XLC) given the improving status of monthly inflation gauges and continued strength in Growth oriented themes.

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SPY July Outlook—The Bull Market for the S&P 500 Index and Growth Factor Leadership are obvious, and we are aligned with those trends for July

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Price action, Fed policy and trends in US yields and global commodities prices continue to support Growth leadership and the continuation of the current bull trend for US equities

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Narrations of a Sector ETF Operator | Weekly Market Letter, June 23, 2024

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Narrations of a Sector ETF Operator | Weekly Market Letter, June 23, 2024 I want to talk about time this week.  Yes, the ubiquitous kind on which all our lives flow, but also of course the discrete kind, like the humble trading day, or the even more humble day.  Depending on perspective and position, time

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US Sector Historical Return Profiles During Commodities Price (Bloomberg Commodities Index) Uptrends

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The historical sector roadmap for expected returns during commodities price uptrends.

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US Sector Historical Return Profiles During Commodity Price (Bloomberg Commodities Index) Downtrends

Research, XLB Materials, XLC Communication Services, XLE Energy, XLF Financials, XLI Industrials, XLK Technology, XLP Consumer Staples, XLRE Real Estate, XLV Health Care, XLY Consumer Discretionary /

The historical sector roadmap for expected returns during commodities price downtrends.

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US Sector Historical Return Profiles During Interest Rate (US 10yr Yield) Downtrends

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The historical sector roadmap for expected returns during US 10yr Yield downtrends

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US Sector Historical Return Profiles During Interest Rate (US 10yr Yield) Uptrends

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At ETFsector.com we provide tools and insights to help our community appreciate and understand the benefits of sector investing.  We are pleased to offer the second installment of our deep history Sector Trend Studies to provide you with a deeper understanding of the historical behavior of these groups of businesses in relation to broad market

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Narrations of a Sector ETF Operator | Weekly Market Letter, June 9, 2024

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Softness in economic and fundamental data has been a boon to equity prices in this cycle because the US equity market has a herd of Unicorns in its midst at present.  These Mega Cap. growers insulate the index from the vagaries of various weak economic data if the rate environment doesn’t completely choke out the consumer and thereby the broader economy.  Keep XLK and XLC as cornerstones of the portfolio while the present inflation dynamic remains in force.

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