Consumer Discretionary Stocks’ Long Winter Isn’t Over

Everything seems to be going well on Wall Street—but consumer stocks aren’t joining the party. Corporate earnings are booming, on pace for another quarter of double-digit percentage gains as the reporting season draws to a close. The State Street Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR exchange-traded fund is down more than 1% since the start of the year—compared with gains of more than 8% and 15% for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, respectively.