Stock and bond fund returns for the quarter were bad nearly everywhere you looked, our columnist says. Energy stocks, lifted by the war with Iran, were an exception. (Giulio Bonasera/The New York Times) By JEFF SOMMER At the beginning of the year, if I’d had to guess what sector of the stock market would outperform all others, the easy answer would have been technology. Yet that’s not what happened for fund investors in the three months through September. Tech stock funds tracked by…
