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What Does Consumer ETF Put Selling Mean?optionMONSTER • Tue, Mar 9, 2010 -
Why I'm Bullish on the Consumer Staples ETF for 2010Gary Gordon • Wed, Dec 2, 2009 -
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Consumer Staples ETFs: How Name Brands Are Fighting BackTom Lydon • Mon, Sep 14, 2009 -
Why Value Still Rules with Retail ETFsTom Lydon • Wed, May 13, 2009
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3 Reasons to Buy Consumer StaplesSajal • Sun, May 4, 2008 -
Consumer Staples Sector ETF looking attractive? (XLP)Scott Rothbort • Thu, Jun 30, 2005
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Summer StocksBespoke Investment Group • Tue, Jun 11 -
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Breadth Hanging In ThereBespoke Investment Group • Wed, Jun 5
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Drug Store Stocks Good For Staples ETFsBenzinga • Mon, Jun 3 -
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Sector Relative StrengthBespoke Investment Group • Fri, May 31
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Will Wednesday's Fed Minutes Spark A Sell-Off?Chris Ciovacco • Tue, May 21
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- In Your Portfolio: A Guide to Sector ETFs, Retail and Consumer Goods & Services ETFs
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- Tuesday, March 19, 10:41 AM The market (SPY) is still a buy, says Investors Intelligence's Tarquin Coe, monitoring the "need vs. want" trade. The ratio between the consumer discretionary ETF (XLY) and the consumer staples ETF (XLP) remains in an uptrend, he notes, with a test of the 2007 peak in sight. 1 Comment
- Friday, March 15, 2:53 PM Consumer wrapup: An improved jobs situation and a break upward in the value of houses seems to be trumping higher payroll taxes as consumers continue to spend more than some of the more dire forecasts for the first half of 2012 foreshadowed. By sector, Staples (XLP), Discretionary (XLY), and Retail (XRT) are all double-digit gainers for the year, while defensive-oriented plays (PG, CLX, CL, REV, GIS) have been busy tracking higher. A couple of retail powerhouses - Wal-Mart (WMT) and TJX Companies (TJX) - haven't joined the 2013 frivolity just yet and the department store group (M, SKS, DDS, JWN, KSS, JCP) has lagged. Comment! [Consumer, Quick Ideas]
- Friday, March 15, 10:13 AM Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLP) announces quarterly distribution of $0.1909. 30-day SEC yield of 2.38% (as of 03/14/2013). For shareholders of record Mar. 19. Payable Mar. 25. Ex-div date Mar. 15. Comment! [Dividends]
- Tuesday, March 12, 9:48 AM The trailing P/E ratio on the S&P 500 (SPY) has creeped up to 15.25 from just above 13 late last spring, writes Bespoke. There's nothing unusual about rising valuations during rallies, they say, but keep it on your radar. Contributing most of late to rising multiples have been Staples (XLP) and Discretionary (XLY), but dividend favorites Telecoms (XTL) and Utilities (XLU) continue to trade at nosebleed (for them) valuations. 3 Comments
- Friday, March 8, 2:59 PM A check of sector performance YTD finds financials (XLF), consumer discretionary (XLY), healthcare (XLV), consumer staples (XLP), energy (XLE), and industrials (XLI) all ahead of SPY's 9% gain. Utilities (XLU) are lagging just a bit, but the biggest drag is tech (XLK), up 4.9%. Not bad considering Apple's 19% decline. Comment!
- Tuesday, March 5, 3:36 PM Retailers worried about delayed tax refunds won't have to wait too much longer as 85% of Americans expect to get a refund, according to Capital One, with 35% of those planning to spend all or part of it - roughly inline with previous years. Tax hikes: 42% are aware of their shrinking paycheck this year, but 30% had no idea. Comment! [U.S. Economy]
- Thursday, February 28, 9:28 AM Daily ETF flows show a lot of action in the SPDR Retail ETF (XRT), which added 8.6% to AUM amid a lot of news and movement in the sector yesterday. The VXX - which saw a big run-up in price and interest over the past week - saw assets flee (-15.6%) as stocks rebounded and volatility dropped. 1 Comment
- Friday, February 15, 2:41 PM The XLP, XRT, and XLY all give up gains and turn lower following Wal-Mart sounding the warning over the effects of the payroll tax hike. It's fascinating that it took markets until just now to react to what was crystal clear 6 weeks ago. 2 Comments [Consumer, On the Move]
- Thursday, February 14, 9:57 AM Consumer staple stocks aren't a bad place to be this morning after the force of gravity from the Heinz deal pulled up a large number of food-related stocks and PepsiCo put in a solid quarter. For the year, the Consumer Staples Select ETF (XLP) is up 7.9%, a move missed by many analysts who thought investors would be scared off by the higher payroll taxes in the U.S. Largest XLP holdings: Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Philip Morris, and Wal-Mart. 1 Comment [Consumer]
- Wednesday, February 6, 11:18 AM The divergence in the performance between junk bonds (HYG, JNK) and the S&P (SPY) is a yellow light to stock bulls, says technician Jon Krinksy, as the move resembles those just ahead of previous big selloffs. Another sign: Relative strength might be shifting to Consumer Staples (XLP) from Discretionary (XLY). Are investors bracing for a pullback? 1 Comment
- Wednesday, January 23, 9:43 AM A strong quarter put in by Unilever (UL +2.8%) serves as a reminder that a consumer staples company (XLP) can grow prices and volume in tandem with the right focus on categories and geography, notes retail analyst Rahul Sharma. Will Colgate-Palmolive (CL +0.1%) and Procter & Gamble (PG) execute as well as their peer? Comment! [Consumer]
- Wednesday, January 16, 4:33 PM Tech (XLK) is the new defensive sector, its 14.8 PE ratio continuing to trail traditional cautious plays like telecom (IST), consumer staples (XLP), and utilities (XLU). At a lofty 22 PE ratio, telecom leads all S&P sectors - it's a pretty fancy multiple for a slow-growth sector, but investors are attracted by the lofty yield. The S&P (SPY) as a whole has creeped up to a 14.8 ratio. 2 Comments
- Monday, January 14, 2:58 PM Investors bailed out of the SPDR Retail ETF (XRT) like crazy last week with the fund losing nearly 27% of its assets in the wake of taxes going up across the board. The ETF is thus far unfazed by the new tax regime, adding 1% this year to near-20% gains in 2012. Comment! [U.S. Economy, Consumer]
- Monday, January 14, 7:56 AM Li & Fung - the world's largest supplier of clothes and toys to retailers - plunged 15.4% in Hong Kong trade after reporting a 40% drop in operating income thanks to weak U.S. orders. Major customer Wal-Mart -0.5% premarket. Comment! [Global & FX, U.S. Economy, Consumer]
- Tuesday, January 8, 3:29 PM Vanguard's recent expense reduction means 9 of its 10 sector ETFs are now the cheapest available to U.S. investors. With an annual expense ratio of just 0.14%, VOX, VPU, VCR, VDC, VDE, VHT, VIS, VGT, and VAW stack up favorably vs. the 0.18% charged by State Street's Sector SPDRs (XLU, XLY, XLP, XLE, XLF, XLV, XLK, XLI, XLB and XTL which charges 0.35%) and the 0.47%-0.48% iShares sector ETFs (RXI, KXI, IYE, IYF, IYZ, IYH, IDU, IYW, IYM, IYJ) charge. At 0.19%, Vanguard Financials (VFH) is still slightly more expensive than the Financial SPDR (XLF). 2 Comments
- Monday, January 7, 3:48 PM Maybe what's got Wal-Mart (WMT) and Consumer Staples (XLP) so down in the dumps relative to the general market over the last month is the payroll tax hike allowed by the fiscal cliff deal. A FRBNY study finds workers spent 28-43% of 2011's payroll tax cut - that's money now going to D.C. instead of retailers. "We continue to be baffled that politicians on both sides agreed ... this was a good idea," writes Cardiff Garcia. 8 Comments [U.S. Economy]
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(XLY) (XLP) Consumer Credit Expands, Beats Expectations, http://bit.ly/ST276z - View all 0 replies
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Good News From Non Farm Payrolls Report, Stocks Sell Off = Bad News (XLI) (XLY) (XLP) (XLK) - View all 0 replies
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Case Shiller Home Price Index Signals Market Recovery (SPY) (XLP) (VDC) (XLB) - View all 0 replies
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David Jackson
The only sectors which are up over the last 3 months are $XLP $XLU $XLV. What does this tell you: http://bit.ly/6A4AdX - View all 1 replies
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Ocean Man: Tells me to sell some defensives tomorrow. No QE Wed = they'll drop with market. Yes QE = they fall out of favor.
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