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WDIV features exposure to 23 countries, but the U.S. and Canada combine for 41.62% of the fund’s geographic weight. WDIV’s top sector weights are utilities, financial services and real estate. Those sectors combine for about two-thirds of the fund’s weight.
“Odds are that market fundamentals will win out and that this 10-year-old bull market still has some — albeit shakier — legs to it,” said Pursche in the IBD interview.
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