The top sectors are materials (86.1%), financials (8.7%) and consumer discretionary (5.3%).
The sectors of materials and steel mill products in the original IO table were disaggregated in detail and converted into a monetary unit description based on several statistics (Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (Japan) 2006; The Japan Ferrous Raw Materials Association 2006; JOGMEC 2007).
The color of vertices in the figures corresponds to the economic sectors: basic materials (violet), capital goods (light green), conglomerates (orange), consumer cyclical (tan), consumer non cyclical (yellow), energy (blue), financial (green), healthcare (gray), services (cyan), technology (red), transportation (brown), and utilities (magenta).
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The trading statement from Bovis coincided with official figures that showed a small recovery in the number of houses built in recent months, but there was also evidence of worsening labour shortages across the sector, while materials shortages have eased.
Applications in R&D have been expanding fast and can now be found in many industrial sectors, including material science, electronics, chemistry, and biotech.
The S.& P.'s energy sector index rose 1.3 percent and its materials sector index was up 1.2 percent.
There are many who believe that the energy and basic materials sectors have come too far too fast, and currently contrarian investors are quick to dismiss these sectors.
Another booster of technology is Standard & Poor's, which upgraded the information technology sector to "overweight" today, along with the materials sector.
