The S&P 500 finished the week at 1,356 up 0.16% for the week.
The Ten Year Treasury Yield closed at 1.49% down from 1.54% the previous week and just above the June 1st low of 1.45%.
Next Week’s Potential Market Moving Events:
Tuesday: Fed Chariman Bernanke testifies before the Senate Banking committee.
June CPI is released.
Thursday: Spanish bond auction bears attention.
Weekly Sector ETF Performance:
| ETF Sector Perfrmance | ||||||||||
| Week Ended July 13, 2012 | ||||||||||
| Weekly | Q1 | 2QDT | YTD | |||||||
| SPY | S&P500 SPDR | 0.2% | 12.7% | -3.1% | 9.2% | |||||
| XLF | Financials | 1.7% | 21.9% | -6.4% | 14.0% | |||||
| XLU | Utilities | 1.4% | -2.6% | 7.5% | 4.7% | |||||
| XLB | Materials | -1.2% | 10.8% | -5.5% | 4.7% | |||||
| XLP | Consumer Staples | 1.1% | 5.4% | 4.4% | 10.1% | |||||
| XLY | Consumer Discretionary | -0.3% | 15.9% | -2.9% | 12.5% | |||||
| XLV | Health Care | 1.3% | 9.0% | 1.9% | 11.1% | |||||
| XLI | Industrial | -1.0% | 11.4% | -6.4% | 4.3% | |||||
| IYW | Technology | -1.8% | 21.9% | -10.6% | 9.0% | |||||
| IYZ | Telecom | 1.0% | 6.2% | 3.2% | 9.7% | |||||
| AGG | Aggregate Bond | 0.4% | 0.1% | 2.7% | 2.8% | |||||
| TIP | TIPS Bond | 0.6% | 0.8% | 4.2% | 5.0% | |||||
| LQD | Inv. Grade Corp Bond | 0.8% | 2.3% | 4.3% | 6.8% | |||||
| GLD | Gold | 0.3% | 12.0% | -4.9% | 1.4% | |||||
| Source: Yahoo Finance | ||||||||||
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