Access These Smoking Stocks With Staples ETFs
Smoking is a bad habit and one that certainly will not be endorsed here, but tobacco stocks can be healthy for portfolios.…
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Equal-Weight Works For These Sector ETFs
With smart or strategic beta exchange traded funds garnering so much attention (and plenty of assets, too), it is worth remembering that…
Consumer Staples ETFs Pop on Hershey Takeover Bid
Consumer staples exchange traded funds led U.S. sectors Thursday after Mondelez International (NasdaqGS: MDLZ), the company behind Oreo cookies and Cadbury chocolates,…
Caution Call on Consumer Staples ETFs
Up nearly 5.2% this year, the Consumer Staples Select SPDR (NYSEArca: XLP) is one of this year’s best-performing sector exchange traded funds.…
A Defensive Sector ETF Play for Summer Volatility
I do the “ETF of the Week” for MarketWatch every week on Chuck Jaffe’s MoneyLife Show where I highlight big movers and…
Best Consumer Staples ETFs of 2016
In an year of uncertainty, the consumer staples sector has acted as a defensive play for more conservative investors, with an equal-weight…
13 Tasty Consumer Staples ETFs to Feast On
The consumer staples sector has a reputation for being boring and stodgy, but boring has been beautiful this year as the fifth-largest…
Diversify Your Consumer Staples ETF Diet
Exchange traded funds weighted by market capitalization, such as the Consumer Staples Select SPDR (NYSEArca: XLP), remain the most popular ways for…
Cap-Weighted ETFs are Trumping Equal-Weight Rivals This Year
Long heralded as advantageous due to their ability to mitigate single-stock risk, equal-weight exchange traded funds are trailing their cap-weighted rivals this…
A Staples ETF to Snack On
In a sign of just how apprehensive some investors currently are about taking risk at the sector level, consumer staples have consistently…
Drink Up With Consumer Staples ETFs
Dow component Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) and PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) are easily the most recognizable beverage stocks to investors. Market values of $178.6…
A Different Type of Staples ETF Runs to new Highs
Consumer staples exchange traded funds bled over $2.3 billion in March despite falling 10-year Treasury yields as investors continued betting an interest…
Checking in on Staples ETFs
Consumers staples exchange traded funds spent significant time in the limelight in late March when Brazilian private equity firm 3G Capital and…
A Buffett Food Acquisition Could Lift These ETFs
Flush with cash, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway’s (NYSE: BRK-A) next acquisition could be its biggest ever as the conglomerate looks to deploy…