Uranium stocks strong this week on reports Putin might limit exports

Generally the sector performance has being determined by the daily direction of the market with Bull days (>0.5%) favouring Healthcare, Consumer Cyclicals, Technology and Basic Materials and Bear days (>-0.5%) favouring Real Estate, Financials and Utilities. Yesterday's sectors performance favoured all sectors except the Bear sectors - all three Bear sectors were all down on the day albeit this was probably profit taking.

A notable number of 52 week highs in a few sectors: Financials across the sector, Real Estate (Residential and Commercial REITs) and Technology (Software and IT Services). Notable high volume in Consumer Cyclicals (across the board), Healthcare (Biotech), Industrials (across the board) and Technology (across the board).

Trending market industries; Uranium was strong again yesterday on rumours that Putin might restrict exports, +8% (UEC +12.4%, LEU +9.8%, EU +9.6%, LGO +8.5% and UUUU+8.4%) and +12.5% this week; the Metals and Mining traded strongly yesterday having been out of favour for the last few months, Aluminum +3.6% (CENX +6.4%, AA +6%) and Speciality Mining +3.5% (LAAC +15.8%, SLI +14.4%, SGML +12.7%, PML +9.9%), Solar has also been strong with SPI +76% leading the way but all stocks in this category were up yesterday (FSLR +15.2%, MAXN +13.8%, RUN +11.3%)