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These four outstanding ideas from the US 1 team at Merrill Lynch are decidedly more conservative than most of the list's holdings, but they offer investors excellent total return potential and a...
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These are great stocks for long-term buy-and-hold accounts looking to add safety and dependable income. While not the most exciting companies in the world, they will certainly hold up much better...
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These four top stocks are suitable for growth accounts with a longer time horizon. Their solid performance and defensive characteristics make sense now.
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These five companies all pay at least a 6% dividend and offer a reasonable degree of safety. Even if a recovery in their share prices takes a while, the high dividends will make the wait much more...
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Here are 15 defensive stocks that most investors would agree will see their businesses hold up relatively well, even if a recession lands sooner than expected, but these are also trading at nosebleed...
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These five top stocks from the Jefferies dividend watch basket not only are priced right but pay dependable dividends.
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With Treasury debt way overbought and too expensive, very secure dividend stocks are the way to go now, and 24/7 Wall St. found five that look very solid and are rated Buy at various Wall Street...
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One good place for investors to be now in today’s very low interest rate environment is dividend growth stocks. These five top picks from the Goldman Sachs Dividend-Growth basket are priced right.
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These five top blue-chip stocks from the Goldman Sachs services-providing basket not only are priced right but come with dependable dividends.
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Despite some softer industrial demand, and weather conditions that drove second-quarter results for some utility companies lower on a year-over-year basis, this analyst remains positive on some of...
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24/7 Wall St. has taken a look at the defensive stocks that are holding up fine on a day that the Dow Jones industrials and the S&P 500 were down handily.
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With much of the European sovereign debt trading with negative rates, demand may continue for U.S. Treasury debt, pushing yields even lower. That could mean a return to bond proxy stocks for...
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While Verizon stock is down year to date, the nature of its businesses, its rock-solid balance sheet and a healthy dividend yield makes it an ideal holding if the markets crater.
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Every time it seems as though the United States and China get closer to a trade deal, it turns into a one step forward, two steps back gambit. So what are whipsawed investors to do?
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AEP used to be a top value stock with a monster dividend yield when it was named as a stock to own for the next decade. That doesn't mean the period from 2020 to 2030 should expect a repeat...
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