The best scoring sector across our universe of 1,600 stocks is utilities.

The average large cap score is 68.31, above the four week moving average score of 67.91. The average large cap stock is trading -10.27% below its 52 week high, 2.75% above its 200 dma, has 3.57 days to cover held short, and is expected to see EPS growth of 10.77% next year.

Round up of the latest stock news.

September E-mini S&Ps (ESU14 +0.05%) this morning are unchanged and European stocks are down % after a composite gauge of European manufacturing and services activity slowed to its slowest pace in 6 months.

Utilities remain at the top of our weekly sector ranking. The only other sector to score above average this week is basic materials. Industrial goods and consumer goods score in line. Large and small cap industrial goods are better than mid cap.

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.