Through the first 30 trading days of 2026, the consumer staples sector gained 15.6%. That's easily the best start to a year for staples since at least 1990 ...

The Consumer Discretionary sector of the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) was established in 1999 to represent cyclical industries. XLY is an attractive sector ETF with many choices ...

This S&P 500 sector — which includes Walmart, Costco and Coca-Cola – is the third-best performer in 2026. Questions linger on whether the upswing can continue.

As October kicks off and market participants enter the fourth quarter of 2025, JPMorgan surveyed its top-ranked U.S. equity analysts and picked out what it called "their most compelling structural and ...

Explore how different weighting strategies in these consumer staples ETFs can impact diversification and sector exposure.

Morning all, Irien Joseph here with the Europe edition of the Wire from the London newsroom. Let’s kick things off with a look at the consumer sector outlook for the second half of 2025, where we hear ...

The S&P 500's consumer-discretionary sector has been the worst-performing corner among the large-cap index's 11 sectors so far in 2025, off 3.9% while the S&P 500 has advanced 5.1% in the same period.

The best performing sector as of midday Wednesday is the Materials sector, up 1.8%. Within the sector, International Paper Co (Symbol: IP) and Dow Inc (Symbol: DOW) are two large stocks leading the ...

In afternoon trading on Wednesday, Financial stocks are the best performing sector, higher by 0.5%. Within the sector, Apollo Global Management Inc (new (Symbol: APO) and Blackstone Inc (Symbol: BX) ...