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It is mindful of the way cheap money in the 1980s stoked up such a firestorm of investment in the private sector that stock and land prices soared.
Prices did hit a fresh two-week high in the early going, but then backed off the daily high when the raw commodity sector and stock market came under selling pressure just after the U.S. markets opened.
Digging deeper into the sector, one stock that has put in a solid performance is SunPower.
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It did the same with sectors (toward energy or away from it) and with stocks, as the sector or the stock was unloved or much in demand.
In June, the company announced that it was discontinuing work on two drugs, and, like most of the biotech sector, its stock has been battered: Shares are down more than 70% this year.
Almost every sector and every stock was rallying.
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He's been hot on the sector since March, when he came to the conclusion that the average stock in the sector was trading at 50% of its fair value.
This news is a bullish factor for the raw commodity sector and for world stock markets.
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The clouded outlook on the sector should constrain the stock, says Barclays analyst Jeffrey Bernstein.
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David Trainer and Sam McBride receive no compensation to write about any specific stock, sector or theme.
Disclosure: Sam McBride and David Trainer receive no compensation to write about any specific stock, sector, or theme.
Disclosure: David Trainer and Sam McBride receive no compensation to write about any specific stock, sector, or theme.
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Every decade or so, a stock or sector comes along that can make your year (or even your career).
So news can strike the particular stock or sector or your emerging markets so quickly and take you off guard.
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Analysts were looking for profit of a smaller 4 cents per share amid the struggling housing sector, giving the stock a boost.
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Clement reduced his rating on the stock to Sector Perform from Outperform.
"Profit opportunities will continue to be based on smart stock and sector picking, rather than broad moves in the indices, " says Adamo.
Yes, I know that a large part of that growth is in the financial sector, as the stock market is up and interest rates are low, but it does suggest that 2011 should not be a recession year.
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Morgan Stanley's Horacio Valeiras says that sector and country factors are equally important in explaining stock performance across the world, while sector considerations account for about two-thirds of the effect in the euro area.
If those efforts come through, RBC says it could consider re-evaluating its sector perform rating on the stock.
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Pacific Crest analyst Weston Twigg repeated his Sector Perform rating on the stock.
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One particularly troubled stock within the sector is International Game Technology, a maker of computerized gaming products and systems.
As the chart shows, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Housing Sector Index has rebounded far more significantly than housing itself.
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.
Since net stock of private savings is larger than the net stock of public sector liabilities, Koll reckons that the overall effect on the economy would be positive.
He notes that a 10% drop year to date has priced in potential pressure in the U.S. federal government sector, and that the stock now looks cheap relative to rivals.
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