We also recommend reducing small cap stocks to 13.6% from 15.2%.
In addition, DCM enables inventory optimization so retailers can reduce out-of-stocks while reducing inventories.
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While bonds might lose value during a market crash, they will lose much less value than stocks, reducing overall losses.
In perhaps the most noteworthy call this morning, Goldman Sachs analyst James Covello turned cautious on the chip and chip equipment stocks, reducing his rating on the group to Neutral from Atractive, noting that semi shares have outperformed the market significantly since 2008.
They have been increasing their stakes in the industrials while at the same time reducing their exposure to materials stocks.
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By reducing exports, drawing from stocks and using paper credits accrued from exceeding mandates previously, ethanol supplies can be maintained while corn demand is cut.
You can, however, follow a more conservative strategy by reducing your exposure to higher beta stocks and favoring lower beta stocks.
Approximately 20% said they are either reducing their stock holdings or favoring less volatile stocks.
Citing concerns about softening tech hardware end demand, RBC Capital analyst Amit Daryanani this morning turned cautious on the IT supply chain, downgrading shares of the contract electronics manufacturers Benchmark Electronics and Sanmina, and reducing estimates and price targets for various other stocks.
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When stocks are overvalued fundamentally and overbought technically investors should be reducing allocations to this asset class on strength to risky levels.
Evercore Partners analyst Patrick Wang this morning offered some cautionary comments on PC-related chip stocks, cutting his ratings on AMD and Nvidia and reducing estimates on Intel in the face of ongoing evidence of weak PC demand.
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However, it is a good idea to conserve the global carbon stocks and not to squander it on electricity generation, which would have the side effect of reducing CO2 emissions.
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