Energy leads while healthcare lags

The Market:

Overall a consolidation session in the markets as the Dow (DIA) finished higher while the S&P 500 (SPY), NASDAQ (QQQ), and Russell 2000 (IWM) finished lower .

Energy stocks continue to remain in vogue as the XLE finished 2.22% higher on the session and marked the 5th straight day of higher closes.  Materials (XLB) was the next closest outperformer finishing up 1.3% and Technology (XLK) was the only other sector to finish up.

Lagging in today’s session was HealthCare (XLV) which finished down -2.35% and saw all components finish the day lower except for Mallinckrodt (MNK) and Dentsply (XRAY) which finished up 2.56% and 0.73% respectively.

Index & Sector performance 10/6/15

Economic Calendar week of 10/5/15

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Companies reporting EPS 10/7/15 pre-market

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