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Technology shares have overtaken financial stocks as the top sector performer for the trailing one-year period, based on a set of ETFs. The formerly high-flying financials have been clobbered recently, in part due to worries that falling bond yields and the blowback due to hurricanes striking the US will take a bite out of earnings for banks and insurers. Tech shares, by contrast, have been relatively steady this week, holding on to nearly all of the sector’s 2017 rally.
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Florida braces for Hurricane Irma: WaPo
Jobless claims rise sharply due to Hurricane Harvey: Bloomberg
Govt’s services survey suggests Q2 growth will be revised up: Reuters‘
European Central Bank holds interest rates steady… for now: CNBC
German industrial output flat in July: MarketWatch
China’s export growth slows in August: RTT
US Treasury yield edges down to 10-month low: MarketWatch