State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLP)

State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF is trading at $88.18, up 1.54% on the session. The 50 day average sits at $84.38 and the 200 day at $84.27, which puts the stock in a uptrend. RSI is at 63.9, which reads as strong, and MACD is bullish crossover. Volume is above average.

The nearest support is around $84.01 with resistance near $88.48, so that band frames the current range. Average daily movement is roughly $1.28, or about 1.5% of the share price, which is what any stop placement has to allow for. The overall health score of 82 out of 100 combines a trend score of 77, momentum of 82 and a risk score of 90.

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.