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Utilities across regions

Electric, gas, water, multi-utilities. Defensive bucket — bond-proxy dynamics dominate cross-region behaviour.

Snapshot Aug 28, 2026 · 4 regions × 11 sectors · refreshed daily.

Global region-weighted

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Top region for this sector

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Bottom region for this sector

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Utilities across 4 regions

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

Region	5d	1m	3m	YTD	Source

Cross-region spreads — Utilities 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.

Utilities across the four regions

Electric, gas, water, multi-utilities. Defensive bucket — bond-proxy dynamics dominate cross-region behaviour. 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.

Utilities — region returns · snapshot 2026-08-28 · refreshed daily
Region	5d	1m	3m	YTD	Vehicle	Confidence
Europe	+0.7%	-1.2%	+1.9%	+2.7%	EXH9.XETRA	high
Emerging Markets	+0.1%	+1.7%	+0.6%	+0.0%	EM:CN+TW+IN+KR+BR+SA+MX+ZA+ID+TH+MY+OTHER (approx.)	medium
US	-0.1%	-4.3%	-3.2%	-0.4%	XLU	high
Asia-Pac DM	-0.5%	+2.4%	+2.5%	-3.2%	1627.TSE	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

Utilities — data Q&A

Which regions lead and lag Utilities over one month?

As of 2026-08-28: leading — Asia-Pac DM +2.4%, Emerging Markets +1.7%, Europe -1.2%; lagging — US -4.3%, Europe -1.2%, Emerging Markets +1.7%.

Which regions lead Utilities year-to-date?

As of 2026-08-28, year-to-date: Europe +2.7%, Emerging Markets +0.0%, US -0.4%; at the bottom: Asia-Pac DM -3.2%, US -0.4%, Emerging Markets +0.0%.

How is the Utilities cross-region read built?

Electric, gas, water, multi-utilities. Defensive bucket — bond-proxy dynamics dominate cross-region behaviour. 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.