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Industrials across regions

Capital goods, transport, defense, machinery. Cyclical bucket — high sensitivity to capex cycles.

Snapshot Aug 23, 2026 · 4 regions × 11 sectors · refreshed daily.

Global region-weighted

 

Top region for this sector

 

Bottom region for this sector

 

Industrials across 4 regions

Same sector, four geographies, four windows. Source ETF per region noted.

Region 5d 1m 3m YTD Source

Cross-region spreads — Industrials only

All six region-pair spreads on the selected window for this sector. Strongest absolute spread first.

Diary view, not advice. Methodology in methodology.md. Back to the global heatmap.

Industrials across the four regions

Capital goods, transport, defense, machinery. Cyclical bucket — high sensitivity to capex cycles. The same sector rarely behaves the same way twice across regions — the spread between the best and worst region is the tradable information, and the table below is the current state of that spread.

Industrials — region returns · snapshot 2026-08-23 · refreshed daily
Region5d1m3mYTDVehicleConfidence
Emerging Markets+0.4%+3.8%+1.2%+14.8% EM:CN+TW+IN+KR+BR+SA+MX+ZA+ID+TH+MY+OTHER (approx.)medium
Europe-2.0%+5.0%+5.5%+8.0% EXH4.XETRAhigh
US-3.4%-0.9%+6.0%+7.0% XLIhigh
Asia-Pac DM-2.5%+0.1%+0.4%-1.7% 1624.TSE+1628.TSE+1619.TSE (approx.)high

Rows sorted by YTD. The vehicle column names the tracker each cell is measured from — common vehicles for this exposure, listed for education, not recommendation. Cells flagged "approx." are built from the country-weighted approximation described in the methodology. closelook.net is an investment research diary.

FAQ · from the current data

Industrials — data Q&A

Which regions lead and lag Industrials over one month?

As of 2026-08-23: leading — Europe +5.0%, Emerging Markets +3.8%, Asia-Pac DM +0.1%; lagging — US -0.9%, Asia-Pac DM +0.1%, Emerging Markets +3.8%.

Which regions lead Industrials year-to-date?

As of 2026-08-23, year-to-date: Emerging Markets +14.8%, Europe +8.0%, US +7.0%; at the bottom: Asia-Pac DM -1.7%, US +7.0%, Europe +8.0%.

How is the Industrials cross-region read built?

Capital goods, transport, defense, machinery. Cyclical bucket — high sensitivity to capex cycles. Returns are close-to-close on the vehicle series; aggregates drop a missing member and renormalise rather than impute. Part of the Closelook Sector Engine — 11 sectors × 4 regions, refreshed daily after each regional market close.

Is this investment advice?

No. The Sector Engine is a data surface in an investment research diary. It describes where sector and regional returns have been over the stated windows; vehicle names are mentioned for orientation, never as recommendations.