Portfolio investors in Europe should concentrate on such areas as consumer staples, healthcare and banks.
The Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR fund is up 12% from a year ago.
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First, you should start in a defensive sector like health care or consumer staples.
Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund shares are currently trading down about 0.1% on the day.
Leading the stock gains Wednesday were the two consumer sectors, consumer discretionary and consumer staples.
Fundamentally, ValuEngine.com shows consumer discretionary stocks 2.3% overvalued and consumer staples stocks 6.3% overvalued.
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The most overvalued sectors are utilities by 15.3%, consumer staples by 10.8% and finance by 9.5%.
Investors that favored conservative dividend plays, such as consumer staples and utilities, fattened their wallets in Q1.
Traders looking for other stocks from the consumer staples sector that have begun to pullback include H.
The top sectors were technology 19.2%, financials 15.7%, health care 12.4%, energy 11.3%, and consumer staples 11.0%.
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Two other major sectors have shown sizable declines in weighting since 1991: consumer cyclicals and consumer staples.
Today twelve of sixteen sectors are overvalued with construction overvalued by 12.0% and consumer staples overvalued by 11.4%.
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Phone companies and the makers of consumer staples were the biggest decliners, dropping 1 percent and 0.4 percent respectively.
The most overvalued sectors are transportation by 10.6%, finance by 11.9%, retail-wholesale by 13.2% and consumer staples by 13.6%.
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If you must be stocks, he says, buy electric utilities and consumer staples.
Other competitors in the consumer staples sector include: Smithfield Foods (SFD), Tyson Foods (TSN), and Zhongpin (HOGS).
Not all consumer staples sector ETFs and mutual funds are created the same.
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And it recommends underweighting the Consumer Staples, Telecom Services, and Utilities sectors.
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There have been big gains in the more conservative corners of the market, such as consumer staples, utilities and telecommunications stocks.
To reiterate what is obvious to the discerning, consumer staples and industrials should do well in good or bad economic times.
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Chart Analysis: The Sector Select SPDR Consumer Staples ( XLP) closed above the early October highs, line a, on January 25.
The consumer staples sector is the most overvalued by 14.7% shifting places with the construction sector, which is now 13.5% overvalued.
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American technology companies do more than half of their revenues overseas (52%), our consumer staples companies are doing about the same (42%).
Mr. White said his firm has been shifting assets into defensive stocks like consumer staples, utilities and health-care shares in recent weeks.
For instance, in the LVOL, the top sector exposure is consumer staples at 22%, health care at 17% and utilities at 16%.
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If the RS line can surpass the resistance (line c), that will suggest consumer staples can continue to be a market-leading sector.
Investors had no appetite for risk on Monday, pulling down stocks as they shifted their money into safe, defensive plays like bonds and consumer staples.
Consumer staples, which had a 10-year annualized standard deviation of just 13%.
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We show the consumer discretionary sector 6.3% undervalued, the consumer staples sector the most overvalued by 9.8%, and the retail-wholesale sector 2.8% overvalued.
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In early parts of recovery, for example, an optimistic surge may benefit bank stocks and ignore cyclical sectors like consumer staples and industrials.
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