The stock market is nursing modest gains after languishing for much of the morning. The turnaround was driven by a handful of sectors. With the S&P 500 up slightly, its consumer staples sector was ...

There is no shortage of warnings about the U.S. stock market’s high valuation, but a deeper look into sectors shows quite a bit of variation. A screen of 11 sectors of the S&P 500 SPX highlights ...

Sectors represent a large grouping of companies with similar business activities, such as the extraction of natural resources and agriculture. Dividing an economy into different sectors helps ...