overweight
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And it recommends an overweight position in bonds.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Another officer, Ayron McKay, told internal affairs investigators about an instance in which the unit’s officers were discussing a candidate who they believed was overweight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
"I think these are the same factors that are and have been contributing to overweight and obesity."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
It keeps an overweight rating on Malaysia’s oil and gas sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
He was overweight and the kids at his middle school often teased him about his size.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
Such overweights relative to the float create an artificial demand for a stock that is greater than its publicly available supply, which could pose risks for index investors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 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
He recently increased his overweights in cyclical sectors such as financials and homebuilders.
From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2022
If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
But, as should be in a novel, the historical never overweights the human or fictitious interest, but is always properly subordinated to it.
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt
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
Managers overweighted both investment-grade corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities in credit and underweighted Japanese government bonds, expecting that the Bank of Japan would raise rates.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
“The dealers’ survey is overweighted to the larger galleries,” said Servais in an interview.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
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
There was not much point in telling people to keep overweighting the U.S. when it had already succeeded so well, and opportunities existed overseas.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Jonathan Harrison, a financial advisor at Sound Stewardship in Overland Park, Kan., has been overweighting large-cap value, small-caps, and international stocks in his client portfolios for years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 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
