Over this period, real GDP growth has been led by an expansion in the private sector (see second chart below).
WHITEHOUSE: Advance Estimate of GDP for the Fourth Quarter of 2012
Firefighters do come quite low down in the public-sector pay league (see chart).
As the chart illustrates, private sector workers are more than three times as likely to quit their jobs.
Chart Analysis: The Sector Select SPDR Consumer Staples ( XLP) closed above the early October highs, line a, on January 25.
The daily chart of the Select Sector SPDR Energy ( XLE) shows that it closed strong on Thursday, up 0.86%.
Chart Analysis : The weekly chart of the Select Sector SPDR Consumer Staples ( XLP) shows the new all-time weekly closing high on Friday.
Chart Analysis: The weekly chart of the Select Sector SPDR Technology ( XLK) shows the decisive close above the last four-week highs on Friday.
The daily chart of the Select Sector SPDR Energy ( XLE) shows that the short-term resistance, line a, was overcome the second trading day of 2013.
The long-term chart of the Select Sector SPDR Technology ( XLK) does look more attractive, as it staged a major breakout above resistance (line c) in early 2012.
Chart Analysis: The weekly chart of the Select Sector SPDR Financial ( XLF) shows the strong close above the resistance at line a, to start off the New Year.
The weekly chart of the Select Sector SPDR Health Care ( XLV) shows that the upper trend line resistance from the 2010 highs (line a) has just been decisively overcome.
The bullish action of the weekly chart of the Select Sector SPDR Industrials ( XLI) was discussed last Friday as it suggested that a major bottom has been completed.
The weekly chart of the Select Sector SPDR Technology ( XLK) shows that it formed complex bottoms in both the summer of 2010 and 2011 that led to quite impressive rallies.
Chart Analysis : The Select Sector SPDR Consumer Discretionary ( XLY) had a very tight range last week as it formed a doji.
In the North East, where the public-sector is proportionately the largest (see chart) and has shrunk fastest, the unemployment rate has risen by 1.2 percentage points over the past two years.
If it grows even one percentage point faster than GDP in future, the effect on public-sector net debt would be huge (see chart).
Chart Analysis : The Select Sector SPDR -Energy ( XLE) finished the quarter by rallying to a new high for the year in the first hour of trading on Thursday before closing lower for the day.
As our chart shows, manufacturers and service-sector firms alike are finding it harder to hire suitable workers, and earnings have started to rise more rapidly as a result.
Typically, this sector bottoms on October 10 (as indicated on the chart) and then peaks in January.
As the chart shows, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Housing Sector Index has rebounded far more significantly than housing itself.
If you follow the raw commodity markets, including precious metals, or monitor the raw commodity sector in general, then an examination of the weekly chart for the Continuous Commodity Index (CCI) is in order.
The raw commodity sector, in general, has quickly turned from bearish to bullish, from a technical chart perspective as depicted by the CCI.
The chart describes the trend since 1998 of a steady decline in financing to the SME sector, from some JPY 350 trillion to the current level of JPY 252 trillion.
In some editions Saturday, a chart with a page-one article on the economy that showed the revisions by sector incorrectly overstated the jobs that were added by 462, 000 because of double-counting in all the sectors (construction revisions added 139, 000 jobs, for example, but were incorrectly stated as 188, 000).
Official figures show investment by the private sector in fixed assets such as factory buildings and machinery grew nearly threefold between 2000 and 2005 (see chart).
Pernick and Wilder chart this migration over the past half decade or so by tracking several trends, including public and private sector investment, installed solar and wind capacity and similar signs of scale.
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The Select Sector SPDR Industrial ( XLI) is up 6.8% since the start of the year and the weekly chart shows the breakout above resistance, line h, at the start of the New Year.
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