Most ETFs are listed on the Amex and allow investors to track sectors such as financial services, health care, real estate, technology, telecommunications, utilities, natural resources, semiconductor, software, biotech and industrial.
A 2004 study published by PricewaterhouseCoopers on behalf of the government guesses the tracking sector could generate some $300 billion in revenue by 2015.
"If all ten sectors finish the quarter with negative growth, Q2 2009 will mark the highest number of sectors recording negative growth since Thomson Reuters began tracking sector growth rates in 1998," he said in the report.
The land use stocks of commercial, industrial, and public works are the capital inputs to the "Economic: Goods and Services" sector (Fig. 3, bottom left) that tracks sector productivity.
Excluding autos and aircraft, orders fell 3.7percentthethe steepest drop since 1992, when the department began tracking sector-specific changes.
A total of 106 E.T.F.'s trade on major exchanges, ranging from Spiders, as those that track the S.& P. 500 are known, to those tracking sectors like chemicals or real estate or national stock indexes from major markets like Japan to smaller ones like Belgium.
"Silverstone is a very challenging track, especially Sector 1, which I think is — after Suzuka — the most challenging sector in Formula One," he said.
There's a number of ways to move into more cyclical sectors into the New Year, perhaps the easiest being the exchange-traded funds that track individual sector slices of the S&P 500, like the Financials, Industrials or Materials SPDRs.
The Lehman-led slide in financial stocks sapped the optimism created by the weekend's bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and exchange-traded funds designed to track the sector were flailing.
This allows us to track the sector through the market blip in March 2000, when Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bill Clinton made a public announcement about DNA sequence patents that led to a dramatic but transient drop in stock valuations, as well as the bubble in late 2000 and into early 2001.
