Alas, over the next 12 months that most popular sector lagged behind the average by just under three percentage points.
On around 60% of occasions, the return of the most popular sector was much lower after investors bought it than before.
The most popular sector, measured by the net inflow of money, had generally performed well in the previous year, beating the average sector by more than two percentage points.
Meanwhile, banking, a popular income sector, was down 20% over the same period.
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Blogs became popular in the tech sector.
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The sector became more popular over the past few years after catching the eye of a growing number of private-equity investors and entrepreneurs who, armed with cheap financing and dwindling options for high-yielding investments, started bidding up properties.
Popular's North American head, Roberto Herencia, counteracts the sector's seedy image by proudly displaying the Popular name alongside Cash Express.
Rakoff, who also serves in the federal court in Manhattan, the most popular destination for cases involving the financial sector.
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Bolstering manufacturing and investment and science requires vigorous competition among ideas for private-sector funding, not a scientific New Deal that favors politically popular ones.
The DOJ has also charged private-sector bribery (and charged it before the UK Bribery Act made it popular).
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To confuse matters more, the most popular productivity measure in America is output per hour in the non-farm business sector, which grew by an annual average of 2.5% over the past five years.
As a provider of a popular Web browser, Qihoo was well positioned for a rapid takeoff in the search sector, and in fact appears to be causing considerable trouble for sector leader Baidu.
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So the private sector, by increasing the total number of places available, can ease the mad scramble for the best schools in the state sector (bureaucrats, by contrast, dislike paying for extra places in popular schools if there are vacancies in bad ones).
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One Los Angeles-based company has quietly seen steady and astronomical success in this sector, as they attempted web-only approaches to the Internet long before the notion became popular.
Since taking over, Soria and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, of the center right Partido Popular, have followed an austerity-heavy strategy to deficit reduction, with cuts proposed across the energy sector.
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