overweight
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The bank is overweight the financial, industrial and consumer discretionary goods sectors.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Some have tweaked their portfolios, shifting from overweight positions in large-cap tech stocks to a more neutral stance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Meanwhile, J.P.Morgan remains overweight on Continental, with resilient tire profitability, a supportive price/mix and improving currency offsetting continuing volume and raw-material headwinds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Cheng noted that for a person who is overweight, losing 10 pounds can reduce the stress placed on the knees by 40 pounds with every step.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
About fifty feet away, some overweight middle-aged dudes with American accents were conversing loudly, complaining to each other about the heat.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Instead, its biggest overweights are energy, healthcare and consumer defensive.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Their overweights are financials, real estate, materials, healthcare and energy and communications services and utilities are underweights, while tech and industrials are market weights.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 3, 2025
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
Length of column in a test of addition under ordinary conditions thus automatically overweights precision in the single additions as compared with knowledge of the process, and ability at carrying.
From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Edward L. (Edward Lee) Thorndike
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
“The dealers’ survey is overweighted to the larger galleries,” said Servais in an interview.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
Maybe they overweighted cost of living, climate and activities too much.
From Forbes ● Sep. 5, 2014
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
At Citigroup, strategists are now recommending overweighting U.S. stocks from a prior neutral stance.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
Lately, that’s meant overweighting sectors, such as energy and industrials, and underweighting tech, a move that’s hurt performance in recent years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 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
