Materials Mess: These ETFs Are in Trouble
April 01, 2013 at 14:02 PM EDT
These are not the best of times for materials stocks and the corresponding ETFs. In the first quarter, the Materials Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLB ) gained 4.8 percent. While that does not sound terrible, it is less than half the 10.5 percent returned by the SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: