Investment & Finance Thread (May 26 edition)

Last week we were going on about the fact that since stock indexes have been flat for so long that we needed to focus on sectors --here are the top ytd sectors (from here) --

 
Year-To-Date Sectors Change
 
Name YTD
Change
Mining - Silver 43.08
Mining - Gold 40.2
ETFS - Precious Metals 23.1
ETFS - Metals 19.79
ETFS - Agriculture 19.51
ETFS - Commodities 18.28
ETFS - Commodities General 15.63
Satellite Communication 15.1
Mining - Misc 13.54
REIT - Equity Trust Resident 13.37

  

-- and (hat tip to Lurkina.n.Learnin) this link shows a daily 'heat map' of most sectors listed by alpha.  We always hear a lot about how the 'big boys' always seem to have more info but imho lack of info is not the problem anymore.   These days we're drowning in info and the task we got is making sense of it all.

(mho)

This is the thread where folks swap ideas on savings and investment --here's a list of popular investing links that freepers have posted here and tomorrow morning we'll go on with our--

 

Open invitation continues always for idea-input for the thread, this being a joint effort works well.   Keywords: financial, WallStreet, stockmarket.