Defensive Stocks

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These five stocks could be great total return stories in 2018 and also offer investors a degree of safety in what has become a very volatile stock market.
24/7 Wall St. has chosen a list of companies that will operate fine in times of market turmoil and probably will operate well from financial standpoint even if economic turmoil were to arise.
With the option of going to all-cash an expensive one, and fully hedging a portfolio also costly, it may make sense to shift from higher beta stocks to safe plays that tend to do well when the going...
U.S. investors have finally seen two consecutive days of stocks selling off. And it has been big selling.
If the Dow and S&P are going to continue their meteoric rise, they are going to need help from many of the stocks that so far have just sat on the sidelines, like Procter & Gamble.
One strategy that investors can use to be defensive without taking the extremely low return of bonds is with stocks characterized as low-volatility ones.
These five top utility stocks make excellent additions to growth and income total return portfolios looking for safety in 2018.
These five top stocks make excellent additions to growth and income total return portfolios looking for safety now.
Despite the strong performance of the S&P 500 and the jittery state of the macro and geopolitical worlds, stocks are still probably the place to be. The smart thing may be to move some capital to...
These are stocks that can add total return to portfolios and are not priced dangerously high. They offer investors a degree of safety in what has become a very expensive stock market.
These five top stocks all pay good dividends and offer a degree of safety in what is clearly a very expensive market by historical standards. With fall right around the corner, playing it safe makes...
A host of events right around the corner could affect the overbought stock market. A single-digit percentage holding of precious metal like gold and silver can really help if the market does go in to...
Merrill Lynch is out with its top food and beverage picks, and while the sector may not seem like the most exciting to investors, the companies exhibit much lower volatility, and some in the group...
These five top stocks rated Buy all pay good dividends and offer a degree of safety in what is clearly a very expensive market by historical standards.
Every indicator is telling those that track the stock market that the last year has been an anomaly, and we could be headed for a sizable sell-off. The VIX volatility index, which tracks the implied...