Cyclicals, such as automotive or energy stocks, tend to display growth later in the economic cycle.

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Two other major sectors have shown sizable declines in weighting since 1991: consumer cyclicals and consumer staples.

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Others will reach for garbage and buy cyclicals hoping for improvement from China.

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Small-cap cyclicals get all the attention early in every economic expansion because year-over-year earnings comparisons look great coming off a depressed base.

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Industrial cyclicals are selling at valuation levels not seen for 20 years.

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The model does a poor job of forecasting movement in cyclicals.

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In the past three months, analysts have hiked their estimates for Cemex's year 2000 earnings by 6.1%, as against a 1.4% gain for other Mexican cyclicals.

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Tactically, a window is open for cyclicals to grind higher.

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We have a buy on consumer cyclicals like Hyundai Motor.

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In an example of that, shares of international luxury-brand apparel and accessories retailer Michael Kors (KORS) is the top performer this year in the consumer cyclicals sector as tracked by Morningstar, with a 79% return.

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Cyclicals are emphatically a buy, particularly retailing.

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Now back to the cyclicals.

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