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The eleven S&P 500 sectors over the past week

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-25, from Weekly Market Recap: The Week in Numbers.

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The eleven S&P 500 sectors over the past week — 11 rows by 2 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
sectorweek_return_pct
Health Care3.55
Materials2.39
Staples1.96
Communications1.46
Consumer Disc.1.45
Financials1.01
Real Estate0.27
Energy-0.45
Utilities-2.85
Industrials-3.26
Technology-3.43
Rows × columns
11 × 2
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for The eleven S&P 500 sectors over the past week, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
sector text 11 distinct values (Communications, Consumer Disc., Energy…)
week_return_pct number -3.43 to 3.55 percent

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number 
WITH sess AS (
    SELECT ticker, toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS d,
        argMin(toFloat64(open), toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS o,
        argMax(toFloat64(close), toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS c
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('XLB', 'XLC', 'XLE', 'XLF', 'XLI', 'XLK', 'XLP', 'XLRE', 'XLU', 'XLV', 'XLY')
      AND window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 12 DAY AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    GROUP BY ticker, d
),
wk AS (SELECT ticker, argMin(o, d) AS wo, argMax(c, d) AS wc FROM sess WHERE d >= (SELECT max(d) FROM sess) - 6 GROUP BY ticker)
SELECT multiIf(ticker = 'XLK', 'Technology', ticker = 'XLC', 'Communications', ticker = 'XLE', 'Energy',
    ticker = 'XLF', 'Financials', ticker = 'XLI', 'Industrials', ticker = 'XLB', 'Materials',
    ticker = 'XLP', 'Staples', ticker = 'XLRE', 'Real Estate', ticker = 'XLU', 'Utilities',
    ticker = 'XLV', 'Health Care', 'Consumer Disc.') AS sector,
    round((wc / wo - 1) * 100, 2) AS week_return_pct
FROM wk ORDER BY week_return_pct DESC

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