Sector Scoreboard

With a third of 2017 in the books, the S&P 500 is up 7 percent on the year, and those gains are pretty broad-based. Nine of the eleven sectors in the index have advanced in 2017 - but the two that have dropped have both fallen quite a bit.

The full scoreboard:

• Information Technology, up 15 percent
• Consumer Discretionary, up 11 percent   
• Health Care, up 10 percent    
• Consumer Staples, up 7 percent    
• Materials, up  7 percent   
• Utilities, up 7 percent    
• Industrials, up 6 percent   
• Real Estate, up 4 percent  
• Financials, up 2 percent
• Telecommunications Services,  down 7 percent    
• Energy, down 9 percent