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...will be looking for less risky investments. Dividend-paying stocks are just the thing. They tend to hold up better in weak markets because they guarantee income and yet preserve the likelihood of capital gains in a recovery. High yields may also signal value. The popular Dogs of the Dow strategy calls for buying the five highest yielding Dow stocks each year?usually the five whose prices have been beaten down the most. Results weren't great in the booming '90s but should improve in leaner times...
...STRONG FUNDAMENTALS As investors look ahead to a recovery, they will favor stocks of familiar companies with solid balance sheets that do well on the rebound. Often such stocks also carry the highest dividend yields. Look at banks (AmSouth, U.S. Bancorp), basic materials (Dow Chemical, Lubrizol), energy (Consol Energy), manufacturers (Dana, Ford), real estate investment trusts (AMB Property, Federal REIT), utilities (Con Edison), and food and tobacco (UST, Philip Morris...
...most markedly during the year that led up to the impeachment; essentially the political class turned against the people and excoriated them at every opportunity for not going along with the notion that Clinton had to go. The American people were said to be interested in nothing but the Dow Jones, which was saying they were selfish, they were stupid, they were irresponsible. You saw the idea of secular democracy itself put up for grabs that year, which was pretty startling...
...Speaker Dennis Hastert was announcing the House of Representatives would be shut down through Tuesday while bio-detectives swept the offices. Tom Daschle?s list of anthrax scares was into the dozens, and George Pataki was starting one of his own. And stocks started slipping, and slipping, until the Dow?s 100-point opening-bell rally was 20, 30, 100 points into the red. Not exactly crashing, but not threatening to turn around any time soon...
STRONG FUNDAMENTALS As investors look ahead to a recovery, they will favor stocks of familiar companies with solid balance sheets that do well on the rebound. Often such stocks also carry the highest dividend yields. Look at banks (AmSouth, U.S. Bancorp), basic materials (Dow Chemical, Lubrizol), energy (Consol Energy), manufacturers (Dana, Ford), real estate investment trusts (AMB Property, Federal REIT), utilities (Con Edison), and food and tobacco (UST, Philip Morris...