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All Select Sector SPDRs: Weekly Flows

Source: Select Sector SPDRs

Select Sector SPDRs summary for the week ended December 11:

The S&P 500 eked out a gain of 0.04% for the week; it's up 22.49% year-to-date.

Sector SPDR assets were off by $610 million for the week, or 2.07%.

Shares of Sector SPDRs were lower as well, by 39,950,000 shares last week, or 3.41%.

Volume was "slow," with 766 million Sector SPDR shares trading for the week.

The Utilities Sector SPDR (XLU), was the best-performer, up 3.85%. The Financials Sector SPDR (XLF), was the worst performer, off 1.64%.

For more weekly net flows charts for Select Sector SPDRs please click here.

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