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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (157810)9/29/2011 1:56:58 PM
From: Jacob Snyder3 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 206093
 
recession watch: sector performance year-to-date:

+19% utilities
+12% consumer staples
+11% health care
+6% consumer discretionary
+6% tech
-3% energy
-5% industrials
-11% materials
-16% financials
stockcharts.com[SECT]

Defensive sectors have outperformed all year. This is what happens at the end of a bull market, and early bear market. Financials, currently doing the worst, should outperform at the end of a bear market.

Consumer Discretionary/Staples 5Y ratio, stock performance: After troughing in late 2008, Consumer Discretionary outperformed, until early 2010. Since then, it put in a triple top, and then headed down in 2011. Consumer Staples outperform at the end of a bull market, and into the following bear market.

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