Sectors, which parts of the market are leading

The stock market is made of sectors, such as technology, energy and health care. The Sectors page shows which are up and which are down today, how each has done over longer periods, and which companies make up each one.

#Today

Open Sectors in the Finance section bar. The overview also has a Sectors card with the same tiles.

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The Today card has one tile for each of the eleven sectors: Energy, Technology, Real Estate, Utilities, Materials, Health Care, Industrials, Financials, Consumer Discretionary, Communication Services and Consumer Staples. They run from the strongest sector at top left to the weakest. Green means up and red means down, and a deeper color means a bigger move. Each tile gives the day's percentage change and the ticker of the fund that stands for the sector. Select a tile to open that fund's page.

#Over longer periods

The Performance card adds the return of each sector over 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, YTD (so far this year) and 1 year. A bar behind each figure shows its size compared with the others in the same column, so the leader and the laggard in each period stand out. These are price returns of the sector funds. Select a sector to open its fund.

#What is inside a sector

Top 20 holdings by sector has a tab for each sector. It lists the twenty largest companies in that sector's fund, each priced, with its Weight, the share of the fund it makes up. The note under the card gives the date of the holdings file the figures come from. Select the whole fund under a table to open the fund's page.

The side column carries the day's markets news.