overweight
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You’d want to underweight stocks so long as you believe interest rates will continue rising, but overweight them once you think that a rate-cut cycle is about to begin.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Some studies conducted by academic researchers suggest GLP-1s may improve metabolic health and menstrual regularity in women with PMOS, particularly those who are overweight or have obesity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
By sector, Wells Fargo is lowering its tech recommendation to equal-weight from overweight while raising healthcare to overweight from equal-weight.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The managers trimmed their overweight positions in stocks and commodities, but are keeping a large underweight in bonds, Bank of America reported.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
She was an overweight black woman with twinkling eyes and a dimpled smile.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Instead, its biggest overweights are energy, healthcare and consumer defensive.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
“We maintain our overweights in health care and materials but no longer recommend stocks exposed to the middle-income consumer or the non-residential construction cycle,” they say.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
“My overweights change based on where I find good investments, and I see great stuff in tech now.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2017
But for us the past overweights the present; we cannot, if we would, get rid of the burden of it.
From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
Information technology and communication services, which we overweighted for a long time, moved back to market weight toward the end of last year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Consider rebalancing portfolios by trimming overweighted positions and rotating into small and mid-cap stocks or bonds.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
If a training data has an overrepresentation of any gender or ethnicity, the features that distinguish that group may be overweighted.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2018
Then there is his character, a relentlessly lively presence in a team otherwise overweighted towards introspection.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2013
Since the canoe is as round-bottomed as the trunk from which it was carved, the least imbalance in weight distribution tips the canoe toward the overweighted side.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Global investor sentiment reached its most bullish level since June 2021, with equity overweighting highest since late 2024.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
Bank of America strategists are overweighting financials and healthcare along with materials but are keeping tech stocks at market weight, citing concerns over an artificial-intelligence bubble.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025
"Some sovereign wealth funds are overweighting China," he said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023
This is exactly what would be expected if hallucinations in psychosis depended on an overweighting of perceptual priors so that they overwhelmed sensory prediction errors, unmooring perceptual best guesses from their causes in the world.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 27, 2019
The front wheels are sinking faster, overweighting the harness.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
