On Wall Street, a rising tide lifts all boats -- but some boats get a much greater lift than others. Financial stocks have been far and away the biggest winners in the market’s rally since early March. As the accompanying chart shows, financial issues in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index have gained nearly 70%, on average Mens Timberland Roll Top, after bottoming on March 6. No other sector in the S&P comes close to matching the financial sector’s advance in this rally. That should offer some comfort to sidelined investors who worry that the market is running away from them. Financial issues have gotten such a big bounce because they were priced for Armageddon -- which has at least been delayed. The other leading sectors in this rally are those that investors figure should benefit most if the economy is bottoming and begins to turn around in the second half of the year: industrial firms, for example WOMENS JEANS, and companies in the so-called consumer discretionary sector, which includes automakers mbt billiger, many retailers www.uggbootsgenuine.co.uk, media firms and home builders. Those sectors were up 30%-plus from their early-March lows through Tuesday Canada Goose jakker, compared with the 24.4% rise for the S&P 500 index overall. For shares in many other industries, gains from last month’s lows have been much less robust. Healthcare stocks in the S&P 500, for example www.yslnederland.com, are up 11.4% ugg bailey boots, on average. The consumer staples sector, which includes many food, toiletry and household-product companies, is up an even more modest 10.6%. Energy stocks are up a restrained 15.6% from their lows, on average, even though crude oil has jumped 40% since mid-February discount moncler sale, to around $50 a barrel. The bullish case is that the rally so far has been dominated by financials and some other economy-sensitive issues, and that the rest of the market therefore still has plenty of room to run. The bearish case is that the rally isn’t as strong as it might appear, signaling that investors really aren’t interested in piling back into stocks. -- Tom Petrunoabout：

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