If the stock market can move sectors and stocks, which sectors and stocks are most likely to move in step with the stock market? Sectors and individual stocks most highly correlated to the overall market can use the S&P 500 SPDR ETF (SPY) as a directional indicator.

The following individual stocks are most correlated the S&P 500 SPDR ETF (SPY).

CMCSA Comcast Cl'A'
ABT Abbott Laboratories
MA Mastercard Inc
MET Metlife Inc
UNH UnitedHealth Grp Inc
IBM Intl Business Machines Corp
AIG Amer Intl Grp
AXP American Express Co
DIS Disney (Walt) Co
TWX Time Warner
UTX United Technologies
FOXA Twenty-First Century Fox Inc A
GOOG Google Inc Cl C Cap Stock
FCX Freeport-McMoRan Inc
FDX FedEx Corp
ABBV AbbVie Inc
BA Boeing Co
HPQ Hewlett-Packard
MMM 3M Co
AMGN Amgen Inc
GILD Gilead Sciences
CL Colgate-Palmolive Co
PFE Pfizer Inc
C Citigrp Inc
QCOM Qualcomm Inc
UNP Union Pacific Corp
JNJ Johnson & Johnson
JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co
GE General Electric
XOM Exxon Mobil
HON Honeywell Intl
RTN Raytheon Co
OXY Occidental Petro
LMT Lockheed Martin
EMC EMC Corp
WFC Wells Fargo
AAPL Apple Inc
T AT&T Inc
MRK Merck & Co
MDLZ Mondelez Int'l Inc Cl A
NSC Norfolk Southern
MO Altria Grp
V Visa Inc
SBUX Starbucks Corp
PEP Pepsico Inc
VZ Verizon Communications
NKE Nike, Inc'B'

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