A review of the day's trading in various SPDR-ETF markets for the trading day just ended.

While the market is treading water, the Utilities and Energy sectors finished strongly.

It is important to be scrupulous around growth attributes of your portfolio companies. With share-price indexes back to all-time highs, it is best to sell stocks of companies with falling growth.

A big move up in bonds today took the wind out of the sails of the financials.

Year-to-date, every sector with the exception of Consumer Discretionary and Utilities has seen a contraction in its P/E ratio.

As the summer months have clearly put on display, natural gas remains highly sensitive to changes in the weather and the resulting pickup in energy demand.