Chart of the Month

Each month we create a chart that hopefully gives you some information that is interesting and possibly useful as well.

This month we look at the sector returns (calculated equal-weighted) of the components of the S&P 500 during 2009.

Open link below for charts.

The 2 interesting things are:
1) enormous disparity in returns between pre-March 9 and post-March 9 periods
2) the sectors that under-performed the most in the first period, out-outperformed the most in the second, resulting in a correlation of returns by sector of nearly -.9

October2009 Chart of the Month.pdf

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