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...consumer impulse will continue to befuddle the best prognosticators at least some of the time. No matter how much data suggest otherwise, a nervous mother of two may get roped into riding a roller coaster and discover a new passion for risk. A stilettoed fashionista might wobble into Wal-Mart. Some things will always be unpredictable...
...business. And so have big companies whose stock has come down dramatically, like EMC and Ericsson. Now it's a more level playing field, and the premium for quality companies over average companies is very small. So I think you would want to buy quality. You'd rather buy Wal-Mart, vs. J.C. Penney or Dell, vs. Hewlett-Packard...
...would rather have something that has some economic sensitivity to it. You would rather own a Merrill Lynch or a Morgan Stanley than you would a bank. Over the intermediate term, I like media stocks, like Viacom and Clear Channel, Univision. In retail, I like Target and Best Buy. Wal-Mart will be O.K. I like Citigroup...
...they allocate capital. [CEO Christopher] Galvin at Motorola is a horrendous allocator of capital. He wants to invent something like his grandfather; he's not running a business. The second thing is to try to get a feel for their internal systems, like General Electric and Wal-Mart...
...very fresh anymore, because it's so focused on itself." She mentions a couple of the sturdy warhorses of cool: indie actress Chloe Sevigny and edgy fashion label Imitation of Christ. "When you really look at it, what trends are they really setting? Whereas if you go to Wal-Mart and you've got the Olsen twins with a billion-dollar business, you know there's something clearly going...