Stock-market investors face changes in sector classifications this month, with shifts expected in areas such as information technology and financials, according to Wall Street analysts. “On March 17, ...

Changes to the Global Industry Classification Standard adjusted the sector weights in the S&P 500. Sector futures provide a way to manage risk related to the 11 GICS sectors and gain exposure to ...

The Philippine Stock Exchange Inc. (PSE) is changing the sector and subsector classification of 13 listed companies in line with recent corporate developments. Under the PSE sector classification ...

S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI said on Thursday they would rename their Telecommunication Services Sector and add Comcast Corp , Netflix , Facebook and Alphabet to the newly broadened category. In an ...

What Are Stock Market Sectors? A stock sector is a collection of publicly-traded companies that work within the same general field of business—healthcare, energy, real estate, etc. The stocks in each ...

Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

A sector is a segment of the economy where different businesses engage in the same or similar activity or provide the same or similar products or services. A business's sector is defined according to ...

For the 466 S&P 500 members that have reported Q3 results, total earnings are up +14.0% from the same period last year on +7.9% higher revenues, with 83.0% beating EPS estimates and 75.3% beating ...