State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLP)

State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF is trading at $82.45, down 0.34% on the session. The 50 day average sits at $84.92 and the 200 day at $83.58, which puts the stock in a uptrend. RSI is at 39.3, which reads as weak, and MACD is bearish crossover. Volume is average.

The nearest support is around $82.77 with resistance near $84.89, so that band frames the current range. Average daily movement is roughly $0.98, or about 1.2% of the share price, which is what any stop placement has to allow for. The overall health score of 49 out of 100 combines a trend score of 37, momentum of 29 and a risk score of 96.

In seeking to track the performance of the index, the fund employs a replication strategy. It generally invests substantially all, but at least 95%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the index. The index includes companies that have been identified as Consumer Staples companies by the GICS®. It is non-diversified.