Andra Markets

Chart of the day

One chart from each session's close note, with two lines: what it shows, from its own figures, and what the note said.

S&P 500 sectors

Energy: +0.27%, close 63.75Energy+0.27%Real estate: +0.20%, close 45.08Real estate+0.20%Materials: −0.19%, close 52.42Materials−0.19%Technology: −0.29%, close 183.10Technology−0.29%Utilities: −0.57%, close 43.77Utilities−0.57%Communications: −0.57%, close 110.68Communications−0.57%Financials: −0.92%, close 56.95Financials−0.92%Industrials: −1.20%, close 179.77Industrials−1.20%Cons. staples: −1.41%, close 85.32Cons. staples−1.41%Cons. discretionary: −1.61%, close 116.68Cons. discretionary−1.61%Health care: −1.87%, close 172.39Health care−1.87%
Sector ETFs, Yahoo Finance, change at the close, 20 Aug 2026.

Energy rose the most, +0.27%, and Health care fell the most, −1.87%. 2 of 11 sectors rose.

Read the close note

Source: the Andra Markets close note for Thursday 20 August 2026, edition 0001, its chart and its text.

How the chart is chosen

Each session's chart comes from its close note: of six of its charts (the S&P 500 sectors, global equity indices, currencies, commodities, volatility indices and digital assets), the one whose instruments moved most against their usual day. For each chart, the median move of its instruments that session is set against the same figure over the chart's previous 20 sessions, and the largest ratio wins. A chart with fewer than three instruments that day is left out. With nothing to compare against, as on the first session, the S&P 500 sectors lead; when none of the six can be drawn, the day's moves, then the watchlist's biggest gainers and losers, the Treasury curve and credit. Only the notes up to each session count, so a session's chart never changes once it is published.

The first line under the chart is built from the chart's own figures. The second quotes the note's section beside the chart, as written: its first sentence without figures, or its first sentence when every one has figures. For information only. Not investment advice.