{"id":6723,"date":"2023-10-16T14:49:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schenkelberg.investments\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2023-10-16T14:49:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:49:53","slug":"u-s-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schenkelberg.investments\/?p=6723","title":{"rendered":"<strong>U.S. Sectors<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a><\/a><a><\/a><a>Top performing U.S. S&amp;P 500 sectors as reported by Koyfin for the Third Quarter of 2023 include Energy (12.2%), Communications (1.0%) and Financials (-1.2%). Laggards for the Third Quarter include Utilities (-9.2%), Real Estate (-8.9%) and Consumer Staples (-6.6%).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continued worry of additional rate hikes hurt income oriented sectors, like Utilities, Real Estate and Consumer Staples. The direction of stocks is driven largely by Federal Reserve expectations.&nbsp; This puts the market in the interesting position, where good economic news is bad for the market and bad economic news is good.&nbsp; If the economy is strong the Federal Reserve is more likely to keep rates higher longer and possibly raise rates some more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oil prices rose in the Third Quarter as conflict continues in Ukraine, driving strong returns in Energy stocks.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top performing U.S. S&amp;P 500 sectors as reported by Koyfin for the Third Quarter of 2023 include Energy (12.2%), Communications (1.0%) and Financials (-1.2%). Laggards for the Third Quarter include Utilities (-9.2%), Real Estate (-8.9%) and Consumer Staples (-6.6%). Continued worry of additional rate hikes hurt income oriented sectors, like Utilities, Real Estate and Consumer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[119,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-commentary","category-market-performance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7kXxe-1Kr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6485,"url":"https:\/\/schenkelberg.investments\/?p=6485","url_meta":{"origin":6723,"position":0},"title":"Market Performance Update &#8211; 3Q 2019","author":"J.J. 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