Thursday Sector Leaders: Energy, Utilities

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Thursday, shares of Energy companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 0.7%. Within that group, Diamond Offshore Drilling (NYSE: DO) and Noble Corp (NYSE: NE) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a gain of 3.3% and 3.2%, respectively. Among energy ETFs, one ETF following the sector is the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (AMEX: XLE), which is up 0.4% on the day, and up 10.67% year-to-date. Diamond Offshore Drilling, meanwhile, is dow...