With half of 2013 in the books, the strongest sector in the stock markets has been Consumer Discretionary stocks, which include such companies as Starbucks and Home Depot. The S&P 500's Consumer Discretionary sector has returned 19.72 percent so far this year. That's just an inch ahead of the second-place sector, Health Care, which came in at 19.58 percent.
All ten of the S&P's sectors have been positive this year, which shows how broad-based this rally has been. Here are the returns for the other eight S&P sectors so far in 2013:
Financials, up 19.02 percent
Consumer Staples, up 14.42 percent
Industrials, up 13.53 percent
Energy, up 9.16 percent
Telecommunication Services, up 7.99 percent
Utilities, up 6.32 percent
Information Technology, up 6.19 percent
Materials, up 2.45 percent
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