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Consumer Staples across regions

Food, beverage, household, tobacco. Defensive bucket — earnings stability, lower beta than the other two defensives.

Snapshot Aug 23, 2026 · 4 regions × 11 sectors · refreshed daily.

Global region-weighted

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Top region for this sector

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Bottom region for this sector

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Consumer Staples across 4 regions

Same sector, four geographies, four windows. Source ETF per region noted.

Region	5d	1m	3m	YTD	Source

Cross-region spreads — Consumer Staples only

All six region-pair spreads on the selected window for this sector. Strongest absolute spread first.

Diary view, not advice. Methodology in methodology.md. Back to the global heatmap.

Consumer Staples across the four regions

Food, beverage, household, tobacco. Defensive bucket — earnings stability, lower beta than the other two defensives. The same sector rarely behaves the same way twice across regions — the spread between the best and worst region is the tradable information, and the table below is the current state of that spread.

Consumer Staples — region returns · snapshot 2026-08-23 · refreshed daily
Region	5d	1m	3m	YTD	Vehicle	Confidence
Asia-Pac DM	-0.8%	+4.6%	+8.4%	+13.9%	1617.TSE (approx.)	high
Europe	-1.3%	+0.9%	+5.9%	+6.8%	EXH5.XETRA+EXV9.XETRA (approx.)	high
Emerging Markets	+1.3%	+4.0%	+1.8%	+2.3%	EM:CN+TW+IN+KR+BR+SA+MX+ZA+ID+TH+MY+OTHER (approx.)	medium
US	-0.1%	+3.3%	+2.3%	+0.1%	XLP	high

Rows sorted by YTD. The vehicle column names the tracker each cell is measured from — common vehicles for this exposure, listed for education, not recommendation. Cells flagged "approx." are built from the country-weighted approximation described in the methodology. closelook.net is an investment research diary.

FAQ · from the current data

Consumer Staples — data Q&A

Which regions lead and lag Consumer Staples over one month?

As of 2026-08-23: leading — Asia-Pac DM +4.6%, Emerging Markets +4.0%, US +3.3%; lagging — Europe +0.9%, US +3.3%, Emerging Markets +4.0%.

Which regions lead Consumer Staples year-to-date?

As of 2026-08-23, year-to-date: Asia-Pac DM +13.9%, Europe +6.8%, Emerging Markets +2.3%; at the bottom: US +0.1%, Emerging Markets +2.3%, Europe +6.8%.

How is the Consumer Staples cross-region read built?

Food, beverage, household, tobacco. Defensive bucket — earnings stability, lower beta than the other two defensives. Returns are close-to-close on the vehicle series; aggregates drop a missing member and renormalise rather than impute. Part of the Closelook Sector Engine — 11 sectors × 4 regions, refreshed daily after each regional market close.

Is this investment advice?

No. The Sector Engine is a data surface in an investment research diary. It describes where sector and regional returns have been over the stated windows; vehicle names are mentioned for orientation, never as recommendations.