FYI: There’s still a little bit more trading left in 2018, but between now and the closing bell, we wouldn’t expect much of a major shift in the final performance numbers for the major market sectors. The chart below shows the annual percentage change of the 11 S&P sectors by year in terms of price returns. Additionally, the shading for each sector represents how that sector performed relative to other sectors for that particular year. For example, in 2018 Energy was the worst performing sector with a decline of 20.9%, so it is shaded red, while Health Care, with a gain of 4.6%, has been the best performing sector, so it is shaded in green. The gap in performance between the best and worst performing sectors this year was 25.5 percentage points. While that may sound like a wide disparity between sectors, it is actually the narrowest performance gap between the best and worst performing sectors of any other year in the table! Last year, which was generally considered a year where everything traded higher, the performance gap was much wider at 42.9 percentage points as Technology rallied 36.9% while Telecom was down 6%.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.bespokepremium.com/think-big-blog/2018-sector-performance-energy-where-money-goes-to-burn/
