Investing in a Recession - What Sectors Should You Avoid?

The economic cycle leads you to believe what sectors might see outperforming growth within the next few months, going into a recession. Within stocks, I think that stocks should be a relatively underweight portion of your investment portfolio given what I see coming on the horizon. If you're very risk averse, I would want to be sticking towards the front end of the treasury curve like cash or short term treasury bonds like SHY. And then within commodities, I would hold a preference for gold, and I would avoid the commodities that do poorly in recessions - coppers, industrial metals and even oil.