US Equity Markets: Sectoral Rotation

I have been pointing out how asset markets have increasingly been driven by monetary factors, which leads to the interim relative price changes and eventually to tidal flows that in the end accounts for boom bust cycles or what I call the Machlup-Livermore paradigm.

Activities in the US equity markets seem to be following this pattern.

Here is last year’s performance by industry

Table from Money and Markets

Now we seem to be seeing a rotation of leadership away from the previous leader, i.e Utilities.… [The following great charts from Bespoke Invest]

…to the laggards…