The Sector Select SPDR Financial ( XLF) has lost 6%, the Sector Select SPDR Technology ( XLK) has lost 5.5% while the Sector Select SPDR Energy ( XLE) is down 5.3%.
While almost every other large state lost private sector jobs in the 2000s, Texas had a net gain of 9.3 percent.
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Like any investment, there is risk of loss and the sector lost, or certainly did not gain.
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The retail sector lost 28, 100 jobs in November, those added to handle the increase in traffic during the holidays being mainly part-time.
More than one million lost private-sector jobs, to get down to it, as estimated by groups ranging from the National Association of Manufacturers to the Aerospace Industries Association.
She warned that "tens of thousands" of jobs could be lost in the energy sector as a result of the energy secretary's actions.
And once again, 34, 000 jobs last month were lost in the public sector, overwhelmingly in the education area -- teachers being laid off.
In the last three years, the legal sector has lost 15, 000 attorney and legal staff jobs at large firms according to a Northwestern Law study.
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But as the latest figures show nearly 12, 000 public sector jobs lost in Scotland between the third quarter of last year and July to September this year.
Unfortunately, another opportunity to right-size the banking sector was lost.
It had seemed that hiring by businesses might make up for the shrinking state payroll: more than three private-sector jobs were created for every public-sector post lost until March.
Trade body the National Caravan Council claims the tax rise would lead to 4, 340 job losses at holiday parks across the UK, with a further 1, 446 jobs lost in the manufacturing sector and 1, 500 at suppliers.
Some 381, 000 public-sector jobs have been lost since the spring of 2010 (and 634, 000 private-sector jobs gained) with many more to go.
The local government education sector has now lost 339, 400 jobs since its recent peak in November 2009.
The local government education sector has now lost 294, 400 jobs since its recent peak in November 2009.
Worse still, most of these jobs came from the goods-consuming service sector rather than the goods-producing manufacturing sector (which lost another 6, 000 jobs).
According to the South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union, in the last three years more than 18, 000 people have lost their jobs in the sector.
In an open letter at the weekend, the chief executive of consumer group Which? said Mr Browne must "transform a sector that has lost its moral compass".
One of his recent hires recently lost a job in the agribusiness sector.
California has also lost some 855, 200 private sector jobs since 2008.
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And there is growing suspicion that they might just steal everything on the basis that they have already lost their customers in the banking sector.
In fact, an estimated one million jobs in the defense sector will shortly be lost as a result of the now-imminent, so-called "sequestration" round of budget reductions.
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With unemployment now at 9.2 percent and a large chunk of those lost jobs coming from the private sector, is now a really good time to cut trillions of dollars in spending?
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"Unfortunately, my opinion is that they happen so often, almost on a daily basis, that they have lost their meaning, " private sector worker Dmitris Papastathis told the Associated Press news agency in central Athens.
Between January 2001 and December 2002, the maquiladora, or manufacture-for-export sector in Mexico, lost 230, 000 jobs out of a total 1.3 million as hundreds of companies either shifted production out of Mexico or shut down completely.
The number of public sector jobs set to be lost by 2017 has also been revised up from 400, 000 to 710, 000.
The Labour Market figures also showed 330 building industry jobs had gone in 2012 and in the wholesale and retail sector 370 jobs had been lost.
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Coffee Republic has seen more than 80% wiped off the value of its shares since the start of 2001, as competition in the sector increased and the company lost key management.
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