Doctors may be failing to spot tell-tale signs in children who are underweight, a study suggests.
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Brazil accounts for 12.6 percent of the MSCI Emerging Markets index, so most investors are underweight.
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"We own their bonds, but we are underweight on the sovereign, " he said.
"From previous research we know that a third of children who are underweight present with life-threatening features, " he added.
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Her studies show that many have a skewed view of themselves - describing themselves as overweight, when they are underweight, and vice-versa.
Between 15% and 25% of Arab children under five are too short for their age and between 5% and 15% are underweight.
Only 8.8 percent of its live births are underweight (While slightly higher than the national average it is considerably below that of cities with big scale problems).
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Encouragingly, for those of a contrarian bent, the latest Merrill Lynch survey of global fund managers found that most investors are underweight in emerging-market shares at the moment.
It is certainly a significant figure, but it means little unless it is compared with the cost of care for people of normal weight and for those who are underweight.
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We are underweight technology, telcos, consumer staples and industrials.
But I would suggest that most investors are probably underweight in some of the companies in the countries that are doing business more within those particular economies.
More than half the women of childbearing age in India are anaemic a condition that can be much improved by fortifying food and 30% of Indian children are born underweight.
"Because many other Asian markets aren't doing so well and institutions are generally underweight in Asia, the Indonesian stock market is attracting a lot of foreign capital, " he says.
Main Street investors are still highly underweight this important sector of the global economy.
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To meet this demand, farmers can't sell hogs that are overweight or underweight.
Utilities, meanwhile, are the most underweight sector among hedge funds and long-only investors.
Developed markets in Asia, mainly Hong Kong and Singapore, are also an underweight due to expensive valuations and GDP downgrades.
Secondly, investors are now so underweight in banks that share offerings may be a good opportunity to get back in if a corner has been turned.
However, the fact that these vehicles underperformed the SPX by such a broad measure in the first quarter suggests to us that they are very much underweight the U.S. equities market.
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Swiss bank Credit Suisse is suggesting investors boost their holdings in bank stocks saying banks have underperformed cyclical stocks and they are the biggest underweight sector on fund manager surveys in Europe.
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"There are a lot of folks underweight stocks in this rally and they are using this opportunity to buy instead of running for cover, " said Wasif Latif, vice president of equity investments at USAA Investments in San Antonio.
The two exceptions where price seems to have gotten ahead of performance are Wynn Resorts (underweight) and Citrix Systems, which gets the sole sell rating in the group.
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The families of many underweight children are suffering more from a lack of health care and nutritional advice than from being too poor to be able to buy food, says Mr Paes de Barros.
Babies from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to be underweight and this has been associated with "a wide range of poor educational and health outcomes later in life", the government says.
The three middle quintiles, from the 80th percentile down to the 20th, are classified overweight, hold and underweight.
"The sentiment building now is that things are improving, and people don't want to be underweight equities with a good data stream coming in next week, " Peckham says.
Morgan analyst Paul Coster this morning chopped his rating on the stock to Underweight from Neutral, asserting that consensus EPS estimates for 2011 are too high for the parent of the Redbox video rental kiosk chain.
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Asia remains an underweight as a whole, though China, Thailand and South Korea as individual nation are definitely an overweight based on price valuations, among other measures.
Southwest airlines stock tumbled after a Tuesday morning after Prudential Equity analyst Bob McAdoo downgraded the stock to "underweight" from "overweight, " citing problems with the airline's model that are not likely to be corrected soon.
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