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Thursday
Nov062008

Post Election Stock and Sector Performance

Sectorelection As we pointed out earlier, the S&P 500 has just had its worst two-day decline since the 1987 crash.  At right we highlight the performance of the ten S&P 500 sectors to show where the biggest declines are coming from.  Financials have fallen the most since the election with a decline of 14.92%.  Financials are followed by Materials and Industrials.  Health Care and Consumer Staples have held up the best, declining by about half of most other sectors.


So which individual stocks have done the best and worst since the election?  For those interested, below we highlight the 25 best and worst performing stocks in the Russell 1,000 over the last two days.


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Reader Comments (1)

RiteAid is shown as $1.06 Can you pls verify that once.....
November 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterHitesh Patel

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