Know Your Sectors. Know Your Market Cycle. It Matters.
Market Cycles Drive Sector Strategy - Picking the Right Industry Mix
The stock market turns before the economy does, and that lead is what makes sector leadership rotate in a familiar order — the same four phases, in the same sequence, with different groups leading each one.
Sector performance rotates with Market Cycles
Each chip carries that sector's live 3M return — click one for every company in it, ranked by YTD performance.
Market bottom
Full recessionStocks turn up while the news is still bad. Rate-sensitive groups move first.
Bull market
Early recoveryGrowth is priced back in. Earnings-led groups take the lead.
Market top
Full recoveryDemand runs hot and costs rise. What the economy consumes leads what it builds.
Bear market
Early recessionMoney moves to what people buy in any economy.
Educational analysis, not financial advice. The groups under each phase are the ones that have historically led while the market sat there. Cycles rarely repeat cleanly and leadership often arrives early or late; nothing here is a prediction or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. See the Publisher Disclaimer.
Market Sectors & Industries
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