Seeking Safe Havens In S&P 500 Sectors & Industries

The Energy sector is the only one of the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 with a positive ytd return, up 46.4%. It was up 1.1% this past week.

The Consumer Staples sector has been among the ones that outperformed the S&P 500 since the start of this year, but had the worst performance of the 11 sectors this past week with an 8.6% hit. Its various industries were among the week's biggest losers: Hypermarkets & Super Centers (-17.8%), Food Distributors (-9.1), Food Retail (-8.9), Packaged Foods & Meats (-8.7), Brewers (-8.4), household products (-7.5), and soft drinks (-6.6).