Best Performing Stocks and Sectors in the S&P 500 in 2018
Be Wealthy & Smart
Linda P. Jones
4.8 • 883 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Learn which stocks and sectors are performing the best YTD.
The top 10 best and worst performing stocks YTD in the S&P 500 and also the top 10 best sectors YTD.
The FAANGs are not in the top 10 year-to-date, so what is? GE is not the worst stock YTD, so what is?
I cover why the FAANGs have stalled, why the leading sector is no surprise, and what's going on with real estate.
The article is here: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/here-are-the-sp-500s-best-and-worst-stock-performers-of-2018-2018-12-06
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| 0:34.0 | And now here's your host, Linda P. Jones. |
| 0:38.2 | Welcome to Be Wealthy and Smart. |
| 0:39.7 | I'm Linda P Jones, America's Wealth Mentor. |
| 0:41.9 | Empowering women and Men Worldwide to Financial Freedom. |
| 0:45.2 | On today's show, we're going to talk about the best and worst stock performers in 2018. |
| 0:52.4 | This comes to us from a Market Watch article written by Philip Van Dorne. |
| 0:57.0 | Well, this year has been quite the roller coaster and in fact half of the all-time up or down days in the top 20, 10 of those have happened |
| 1:09.0 | in the last year. |
| 1:10.0 | So we've had a lot of volatility that we didn't have the previous year. |
| 1:15.0 | We had in 2017, as you remember, a year of almost no volatility. |
| 1:20.0 | And this year we have extra volatility making up for all of that. |
| 1:25.3 | It's been a wild roller coaster ride and a lot of people are getting a little nervous finally. |
| 1:31.5 | And I say finally because for a long time there was no fear in the |
| 1:36.3 | market nobody was worried nobody was reacting to the market swings and |
| 1:41.8 | finally we're getting some fear back in the market which is actually a good thing. |
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