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).

AIG Amer Intl Grp
MDT Medtronic, Inc
JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co
AAPL Apple Inc
WFC Wells Fargo
BAC Bank of America Corporation
BRK.B Berkshire Hathaway'B'
USB US Bancorp
AXP American Express Co
KO Coca-Cola Co
BAX Baxter Intl
TXN Texas Instruments
MS MS
IBM Intl Business Machines Corp
JNJ Johnson & Johnson
TWX Time Warner
GS Goldman Sachs Grp
COF Cap One Finl
MDLZ Mondelez Int'l Inc Cl A
MON Monsanto Co
MET Metlife Inc
V Visa Inc
BMY Bristol-Myers SQUIBB
ALL Allstate Corp
GD General Dynamics Corp
DD Dupont(E.I.)Denemours
GE General Electric
MA Mastercard Inc
MRK Merck & Co
AMGN Amgen Inc
EMC EMC Corp
PEP Pepsico Inc
CL Colgate-Palmolive Co
INTC Intel Corp
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
EXC Exelon Corp
ABT Abbott Laboratories
CMCSA Comcast Cl'A'
RTN Raytheon Co
C Citigrp Inc
CAT Caterpillar Inc
BK Bank of New York Mellon Corp
CSCO Cisco Systems
LOW Lowe's Cos
UNH UnitedHealth Grp Inc
F Ford Motor
SPG Simon Ppty Grp
MO Altria Grp
COST Costco Wholesale
FOXA Twenty-First Century Fox Inc A
FCX Freeport-McMoRan Inc
LLY Lilly (Eli)
SBUX Starbucks Corp
PG Procter & Gamble
DIS Disney (Walt) Co
CVX Chevron Corporation
GILD Gilead Sciences
UNP Union Pacific Corp

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