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Geneva: Toyota RAV4 "Adventure" brings the butch

By Chris Paukert

2013 Toyota RAV4 Adventure - front three-quarter view, Geneva Motor Show reveal

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Just last week, your humble author had a 2013 Toyota RAV4 in his garage, and he couldn’t help noting that even in mid-level XLE trim, its aesthetics lacked oomph, due in large part to its cheap-looking black bumpers and airy-looking wheel wells. Judging by the RAV4 “Adventure” on display at the Geneva Motor Show, someone at Toyota must’ve been thinking the same thing.

With Japan’s biggest automaker understandably focused on bigger reveals, information on this butched-up softroader has proven to be hard to come by, with no press materials whatsoever. We don’t even know if this is a pure concept or if it’s actually being considered for production. Either way, we approve. The 20-inch dark-finish alloys probably don’t do much for ride quality, but they certainly look nicely aggressive, as does the new lower fascia with its prominent lower lip. Other changes include beefier wheel arches, side rails, headlamps with integrated LEDs, twin-element fog lamps and mesh grille inserts. All of the changes are quite well integrated – enough so that the Adventure largely avoids looking like a SEMA refugee in person.

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XLE, APC, EOG, APA: Large Outflows Detected at ETF

By ETFChannel.com

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (AMEX: XLE) where we have detected an approximate $27.4 million dollar outflow — that’s a 0.4% decrease week over week (from 97,374,200 to 97,024,200). Among the largest underlying components of XLE, in trading today Anadarko Petroleum Corp (NYSE: APC) is down about 0.2%, EOG Resources, Inc. (NYSE: EOG) is up about 0.7%, and Apache Corp. (NYSE: APA) is lower by about 0.2%. For a complete list of holdings, visit the XLE Holdings page ยป …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Markets

Will This Be February's Hot Sector?

By Tom Aspray, Contributor As the market continues to trade sideways during earnings season, MoneyShow’s Tom Aspray takes a look at a sector about to enter a seasonally strong period and an attractive stock in that sector.

Another mixed session for stocks on Wednesday as the Dow was hit hard by the 3.3% drop in Boeing Co. (BA). The earnings so far this week have been a plus for the market but it will get another test today. Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC) report before the bell and Intel Corp. (INTC) reports after the close.

It may take much better than expected earnings from Intel Corp. (INTC) to change the negative sentiment on the tech sector. The declines in the broad market, like the S&P 500, have been well supported. A strong close above the recent highs will confirm that the correction is over and punish the market skeptics.

Energy was one of the worst performing sectors in 2012 as the Select Sector SPDR Energy (XLE) was up just 7.4% in 2012. This lagged well below the 17.1% gain in the Spyder Trust (SPY). So far in 2013, XLE has done a bit better than SPY but the relative performance analysis has not yet confirmed that it is a market leading sector.

The daily technical picture for the March crude oil contract oil turned positive in the middle of December. It is up 10% from the early December lows, while XLE is up 6.7% from the December 31 low. A look at the seasonal tendencies for crude prices suggests that the energy sector may soon catch up with crude oil prices.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest