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The Institute of Supply Management reported that its manufacturing index for February rose to 58.6% from 57.7% in January, beating the consensus estimate of 57.7%.

Two Banks Are Telling Their Clients To Ignore The Turmoil And Just BTFD: Here''s Why At a time when risk sentiment has foundered, BTFD has mutated into STFR, and even retail investors are hedging for a crash by buying puts in record amounts… ... two banks are throwing caution to the wind and staking their reputation that this time the rout is finally ending and the bottom is in. The first one is Citi (the same Citi which yesterday closed its short oil reco from Feb 3 after suffering a painful 11% loss in just one month, which for levered traders could mean a year''s worth of performance wiped out), and which today said that it is raising "US equities and the global IT sector" - i.e., growth names - back to Overweight. As the bank''s chief strategist, Robert Buckland notes, "both are Growth trades that should benefit, in relative terms at least, from the recent sharp drop in real yields" to wit: Equity markets have been less quick to price in the drop in real yields. We have frequently highlighted that these have been a big driver of the global Value/Growth trade in recent years (Figure 6).

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The recently released U.S. industrial output data seem to be encouraging amid improving labor market and easing pandemic conditions.

The economic backdrop is positive. XLI is improving relative to the SPY. The ETF is consolidating on its charts.

The industrial sector is expected to rebound from the coronavirus-led slump as the U.S. economy is expected to keep recovering in the rest of 2022.

Shares of General Electric Co. rallied 1.3% Monday toward their longest winning streak in nearly six years, but they remained well below recent peak of just three weeks ago. GE''s stock started its current win streak after it closed at $89.32 on Jan. 26, which was the lowest close since Feb. 1, 2021, one day after GE reported fourth-quarter results. The industrial conglomerate''s stock has now run up 12.3% during its current streak, which would be the longest since the 10-day stretch that ended July 19, 2016. The stock is still 2.7% below the Jan. 14 closing high of $103.16. It has shed 7.7% over the past three months to underperform the 5.3% decline in the SPDR Industrial Select Sector ETF and S&P 500''s 3.9% decline. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

Transportation sector-related exchange traded funds jumped after UPS posted record quarterly earnings on Tuesday and projected an optimistic 2022 outlook. The iShares Transportation Average ETF (IYT)

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The latest update on U.S. industrial output demonstrates the adverse impacts of the aggravating COVID-19 cases from the Omicron variant in December.

Shipping and logistics companies gained in the week, with ZIM leading the pack, while recruitment company Kanzhun was the worst decliner this week. Industrial Select Sector SPDR

After a great 2021 (for stocks), investors will now be mulling over what's in store for this year.

The U.S. economy added 199, 000 jobs in December 2021, well below market forecasts of 400,000.

In order to achieve such a yield, XLI tracks the Industrial Select Sector Index. This index seeks to provide an effective representation of the industrial sector of the S&P 500 index.

The Institute for Supply Management's Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 58.7 in December, off 2.4 points from 61.1 percent in November. Demand measures remained strong overall despite a