The strong action in financials last week suggests it is now becoming a market-leading sector.
If the RS line can surpass the resistance (line c), that will suggest consumer staples can continue to be a market-leading sector.
The December highs in the RS line were overcome a few days later signaling it was a now market leading sector.
Clearly, technology stocks have been leading the market higher, and if the financial stocks are now becoming a leading sector it may help push the market to significant new high.
In general, the companies that moved first in leading sector consolidation made out best, because they had achieved greater integration of legacy cultures when the next surge in demand began.
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Plans for partly government-funded health care in the U.S. have kept the European pharmaceutical sector subdued in the 12 months since Obama came into office, with its leading sector index up just 10.4% in that time period while Europe's top 500 stocks are up 35.8%, according to Pope.
Thought leadership is not PR, it is all about leading the sector in a new direction.
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As I noted last week, there are also a few stocks in the market-leading transportation sector that I am watching for signs of a bottom.
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Temporary jobs are usually a three-month leading indicator of private sector employment.
Last year, a leading US-based sector-focused firm used deal diagnostics to sharpen the definition of its investment core and assess opportunities to grow beyond it.
The leading stock in the sector, Molycorp ( MCP), was hit by disappointing earnings in May, and this put further pressure on all stocks in the sector.
The leading job-cut sector year to date is the computer industry, the company says but that is in large part due to the 27, 000 positions Hewlett-Packard is axed.
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In Europe, shares in International Consolidated Airlines Group, the parent company of British Airways and Iberia, was down 6.9% in London trading, leading declines across the sector and among FTSE 100 stocks.
That "place" is the financial sector, which enjoyed a substantial rise from the ironically combined drop in interest rates coupled with a rising dollar, leading the Financial Select Sector ETF for a 3.3% in afternoon trading.
Thanks to confidence in business enterprise software that is grown by the 2010 performances of companies like Oracle and Dell, which reported a rise in commercial enterprise revenues last quarter, the tech sector is leading markets to the year-end.
Steady economic growth at just below 4% during the first three quarters of 2011 was interrupted by historic flooding in October and November in the industrial areas north of Bangkok, crippling the manufacturing sector and leading to a revised growth rate of only 0.1% for the year.
The company has agreements with leading brands in the automotive sector such as BMW, Chrysler, Honda, Kenwood, Panasonic, Suzuki and Toyota, among others.
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Andrew Buglass from the Royal Bank of Scotland said his bank was the leading lender to the renewables sector last year and funding was available for "strong projects".
Pending home sales, which represent sales of existing homes where contracts have been signed but the transaction has yet to be completed, are often viewed as a leading indicator of the housing sector.
Investors might worry about what would happen to impressive bank earnings if that high-risk trading activity were to be curtailed in any meaningful way, and whether it might even put a damper on the overall market given the way the financial sector has been leading the bull market.
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"The subprime sector is simply the leading edge and it's the most volatile, " Manning said.
Mr Browne said the BBA, the leading trade body for the bank sector, would work to regain public trust.
Increasing competition over water resources is also leading to conflicts between the private sector, agriculture water users, and civil society.
The proposed deal would combined two leading players in the semiconductor test equipment sector.
Still, with China leading the green race, it is a sector not to dismiss.
Infosys is already known as a leading company in India's burgeoning tech sector.
U.S. carriers may not be the international brand of choice, but they are leading the recovery in the global air travel sector.
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These are some of the promised fruits from the U.S. government's plan to sell wireless spectrum to the private sector, according to executives at leading mobile communications carriers.
The increase in the normal retirement age from 60 to 67 for public sector workers has not led to significant savings in the cost of public-sector pensions for taxpayers, a leading pensions consultant calculates.
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