staples

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These valuations have declined for all of the index’s sectors except for the industrial, real estate and consumer staples sectors.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026

Defensive stocks in consumer staples, utilities, and healthcare, with betas larger than -0.1%, tend to gain when the market declines.

From Barron's • Jun. 24, 2026

For some reason, whenever I reached for cheap pantry staples, I kept ending up in winter.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2026

Solana first encountered the game in college, while living in what he called a “nerd frat” where strategy games such as StarCraft and Magic: The Gathering were staples.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026

The newcomers began to hunt the deer and gather the nuts and berries that were the Neanderthals’ traditional staples.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari