Defensives Dumped in pursuit of Beta

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    It's not the sort of thing I ever notice, let alone comment, but the extent to which the market today suddenly decided to dump defensive sectors - healthcare (COH, RMD, CSL, SHL)) and grocery retailers (WOW, COL) - and started chasing financial leverage (banks and wealth managers - IFL, CGF) and market beta (cyclicals - ABC, BLD, FBU, JHX), is not something one sees very often.

    Certainly not to this extent.

    As to what it means (or indeed of it means anything at all), well that's a very big debate all on its own.
 
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