Monday Sector Leaders: Healthcare, Services

In afternoon trading on Monday, Healthcare stocks were the best performing sector, losing just 6.5%.

Within that group, AmerisourceBergen Corp. (Symbol: ABC) and Quest Diagnostics, Inc. (Symbol: DGX) were two large stocks leading the way, showing a loss of 1.4% and 2.1%, respectively.

Among healthcare ETFs, one ETF following the sector was the Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (Symbol: XLV), which was down 5.6% on the day, and down 9.99% year-to-date.
AmerisourceBergen Corp., meanwhile, was up 0.01% year-to-date, and Quest Diagnostics, Inc. was up 3.23% year-to-date. Combined, ABC and DGX make up approximately 0.7% of the underlying holdings of XLV…

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