Real estate was the best of seven categories of funds focusing on single industries, gaining 29.8percentt.
The tobacco stocks, led by B.A.T. Industries, gained about 30percentt from early December to mid-February.
Many traditional activities, such as metallurgy, food processing, and printing, progressively disappeared, while electronics, telecommunications, and other high-technology industries gained emphasis.
In New Hampshire, where the Democratic presidential candidates are locked in a fierce primary fight, the wages in industries gaining jobs are 35percentt lower than in those losing jobs.
While most bull markets are built on strong performance from a wide swath of industries, gains in the current market are being made in technology stocks alone.
For example, the health care, real estate, and construction industries gained contractors in the past year, while public safety, retail, and the arts lost them.
Hi-Shear Industries gained 2 1/2 to 21 3/8.
In the pharmaceutical industries, gaining insights into the functions of uncharacterized genes can offer a direct and meaningful path to successful drug target identification.
Exporters like the oil industry gain, because devaluation makes exports cheaper and thus more competitive.
Excluding the 7.1 percent decline at Toyota and 2.6 percent decline at Honda, the industry gain was 16.6 percent in the period.
