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).

GS Goldman Sachs Grp
ABT Abbott Laboratories
COF Cap One Finl
BRK.B Berkshire Hathaway'B'
INTC Intel Corp
EBAY Ebay Inc
TWX Time Warner
MA Mastercard Inc
MS Morgan Stanley
ALL Allstate Corp
BMY Bristol-Myers SQUIBB
USB US Bancorp
CSCO Cisco Systems
BAC Bank of America Corporation
JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co
AXP American Express Co
CL Colgate-Palmolive Co
JNJ Johnson & Johnson
BK Bank of New York Mellon Corp
GM General Motors Co
MRK Merck & Co
C Citigrp Inc
FOXA Twenty-First Century Fox Inc A
PG Procter & Gamble
MET Metlife Inc
UNP Union Pacific Corp
UPS United Parcel'B'
IBM Intl Business Machines Corp
BAX Baxter Intl Inc
KO Coca-Cola Co
HD Home Depot Inc
RTN Raytheon Co
MSFT Microsoft Corp
F Ford Motor
PEP Pepsico Inc
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
WFC Wells Fargo
UTX United Technologies
MMM 3M Co
NSC Norfolk Southern
MDT Medtronic plc
ACN Accenture PLC (Ireland) NEW
LOW Lowe's Cos

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