underweight
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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
It’s underweight both U.S. stocks and bonds at the moment, giving more weight to cash and emerging-market stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
They say that those in their early teens are much more likely to have miscarriages and underweight babies than adult women.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
You’d want to underweight stocks so long as you believe interest rates will continue rising, but overweight them once you think that a rate-cut cycle is about to begin.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
This particular summer afternoon, in a dusty geological library in Vienna, Sergeant Major von Rumpel follows an underweight secretary wearing brown shoes, brown stockings, a brown skirt, and a brown blouse through stacks of periodicals.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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