Benzinga's Sector Leaders (AIG, TXT, PACR)

Today the market is essentially unchanged, but has been swinging back and forth from the green to the red. Hot sectors for today’s trading session include:

Financials –

- American international Group (NYSE: AIG) up 8.62%
- Amtrust Financial (NASDAQ: AFSI) up 5.92%
- National Bank of Greece (NYSE: NBG) up 5.12%

Conglomerates –

- Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) up 1.37%
- ABB Ltd (NYSE: ABB) up 1.21%
- Alleghany Corp. (NYSE: Y) up 1.17%

Transportation –

- Pacer International (NASDAQ: PACR) up 11.14%
- Hub Group (NASDAQ: HUBG) up 5.33%
- Knight Transportation (NYSE: KNX) up 3.33%

It is interesting that the financial sector is leading the industry when a large group of former Federal Reserve people stated that they back the Volcker rule. I believe it is being helped by a few upgrades to key stocks in the sector.