In this weekly update, I give my view of the current market environment, offer a technical analysis of the S&P 500 chart, review our weekly fundamentals-based SectorCast rankings of the ten U.S. business sectors, and then offer up some actionable trading ideas...

Across our 1,800 stock universe, utilities remains the best scoring sector. Idustrial goods also score above the average universe score this week. Also in today's report is a chart breaking out historical monthly returns for utilities over the past decade.