overweight
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As the Wall Street firm fears moving away from what has been a Goldilocks environment, it’s now recommending being 5% underweight on stocks in a portfolio, from a previous recommendation of being 4% overweight.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
JPM cuts its recommendation on Schneider to neutral from overweight, while trimming its price target to 310 euros from 345 euros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Public Health Minister Maree Todd noted that two out of three Scottish adults are overweight or obese, with those living in the poorest areas worst affected.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Stronger associations were also seen among participants who were more physically active and among those who were not overweight or obese.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
For once in his life it paid to be overweight.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
Instead, its biggest overweights are in defensive sectors that have also held up well during the recent sell off.
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
Yardeni said he’s instead recommending market-weighting those two combined sectors and rebalancing by adding overweights in S&P 500 financials and industrials.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025
Only March 2009 and December 2008 showed larger overweights in bonds.
From Reuters ● Nov. 15, 2023
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
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
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
Overall, Miller is overweighting technology stocks in his portfolio, anticipating at least high-teens-percentage earnings growth in the next five to 10 years, but he is cognizant of risks in the sector.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Global investor sentiment reached its most bullish level since June 2021, with equity overweighting highest since late 2024.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
"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
