State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLP)

State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF is trading at $85.30, up 1.31% on the session. The 50 day average sits at $84.03 and the 200 day at $83.81, which puts the stock in a uptrend. RSI is at 54.7, which reads as neutral, and MACD is bullish crossover. Volume is below average.

The nearest support is around $82.85 with resistance near $84.89, so that band frames the current range. Average daily movement is roughly $0.99, or about 1.2% of the share price, which is what any stop placement has to allow for. The overall health score of 78 out of 100 combines a trend score of 77, momentum of 66 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.