Thursday Sector Leaders: Energy, Services

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Thursday, shares of Energy companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 1.6%. Within that group, QEP Resources (NYSE: QEP) and Noble Energy (NYSE: NBL) are two of the day's stand-outs, showing a gain of 4.6% and 3.4%, respectively. Among energy ETFs, one ETF following the sector is the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (AMEX: XLE), which is up 1.1% on the day, and up 0.08% year-to-date. QEP Resources, meanwhile, is down 19.67% year-to-date, and...