Friday Sector Leaders: Industrial, Materials

The best performing sector as of midday Friday is the Industrial sector, up 1.5%. Within that group, Textron (NYSE: TXT) and United Rentals (NYSE: URI) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a gain of 9.8% and 3.4%, respectively. Among industrial ETFs, one ETF following the sector is the Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF (AMEX: XLI), which is up 1.8% on the day, and down 0.30% year-to-date. Textron, meanwhile, is up 0.68% year-to-date, and United Rentals, Inc. is up 32.16% year-to-date. C...