| With the Industrial Select Sector SPDR up nearly 12 percent year-to-date, it's hard to say the industrial sector is struggling. XLI's performance is good for the fourth-best among the nine original sector SPDR exchange traded funds.
However, much of the upside being accrued by XLI and rival cap-weighted industrial sector ETFs is being driven by aerospace and defense stocks. That group is XLI's largest industry weight at 27.2 percent, or nearly 1,000 basis points more than the ETF's second-largest industry weight...............................................Full Article: Source
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