Sector ETF

A sector ETF holds one of the eleven GICS sectors, like XLE for energy, XLF for financials or XLK for technology. A number about the economy never reaches a stock directly, it reaches a sector, so on a CPI night you watch which sectors take the surprise worst through these tickers. Energy led all eleven on the day the Dow lost 400 points.

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  • CPICPI, the consumer price index, is the monthly US measure of what a basket of goods and services costs households…
  • GICS sectorsGICS sectors are the eleven sectors S&P and MSCI use to classify every company: energy, materials, industrials…
  • US ETFA US ETF is an exchange-traded fund on a US exchange that holds a basket, usually an index, and trades all day like…
  • Cyclical vs defensive stocksCyclical stocks earn more when the economy grows and less when it shrinks: discretionary, industrials, materials…
  • Growth vs value stocksGrowth vs value is the split between companies priced for profits far in the future, like most technology, and…
  • PPIPPI, the producer price index, measures the prices businesses receive, which makes it inflation upstream of the shop…

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