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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.
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ETFs are designed to track sector or country indices.
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.
Excluding autos and aircraft, orders fell 3.7percentthethe steepest drop since 1992, when the department began tracking sector-specific changes.
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.
The Industrial Select Sector fund, an E.T.F. that invests in "old economy" manufacturers, is another way to track defensive sectors, he said.
According to Howard Silverblatt, the senior index analyst for Standard & Poor's, as the broad stock market has declined, six S.& P. stock indexes that track particular sectors of the market have fallen 15 to 19 percent — nearly bear market territory.
So he has embraced a new approach, using a portfolio of exchange-traded funds, or E.T.F.'s, that track different sectors of the economy, like energy and health care.
There are ETFs that track specific sectors, such as industrial (XLI), health care (IYH) and technology stocks (XLK).
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