The empire: Dizzying portfolio of mostly U.S. and European blue-chip stocks, including Citicorp, News Corp.
Since 2000, profits have doubled for many blue-chip stocks while their share prices remain unchanged or only up marginally.
Given the turbulent environment investors are staying with larger blue-chip stocks since they feel will they will hold up better.
It also paid a dividend far higher than the norm among stable U.S. blue-chip stocks, and that dividend was growing every year.
Citi also likes blue-chip stocks with free cash flow yields that are considered not especially risky due to the valuation in credit markets.
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If it opts to compete, it risks losing its most heavily traded shares as the London-Frankfurt duo tries to poach French blue-chip stocks.
Everyone knows Chinese products have quality problems, but you'd think its blue-chip stocks, bearing the New York Stock Exchange's seal of approval, would be safe.
Mr. Glasser, 64 years old, recalls putting his daughter through school largely by buying and holding individual blue-chip stocks, often for more than a decade.
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Weiss began publishing IQ Trends in the late 1960s, preaching the virtues of buying blue-chip stocks with yields at the high end of their historical ranges.
Now, compare the track records of two blue-chip stocks Fiat, an Italian carmaker, and Peugeot, its French competitor over a period starting before that date and ending after.
The blue-chip stocks that make up the Dow Jones were among the largest movers in the post-March low rally and investors have been taking back gains there.
Weiss' investment strategy is to select blue-chip stocks with a long history of paying dividends and trading at the high end of their historical range of yields.
Gruber bought ten Argentinean blue-chip stocks, investing his own money.
Berman, who focuses on owning undervalued blue-chip stocks, recommends ADP to his subscribers, along with other large-caps like Pfizer ( PFE), Alcoa ( AA) and Wal-Mart ( WMT).
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Kelley Wright, editor of Investment Quality Trends, is a perennial fan of blue-chip dividend stocks with at least of 10 years of paying dividends without cutting them.
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So with blue-chip European bank stocks like BNP Paribas and Barclays trading for only six and seven times trailing earnings, this might be the time for cool-headed investors to pick up strong banks at cheap prices.
Taking this distortion to yet another level, compared to high yield bonds, blue-chip, high quality stocks look incredibly cheap!
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Some of these forays, like high-yield bonds and blue chip dividend stocks, have performed well.
Financial and energy stocks led the blue-chip index lower yesterday.
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But Sullivan argues in his recent newsletter that there is another historically accurate pattern that would keep you all in on stocks, especially big Dow Jones Industrial Average-sized stocks (note that Grantham and Ken Fisher love the very biggest blue chip stocks).
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For instance, a number of high quality, blue chip stocks sport dividend yields comparable to long-term bonds AND they are selling at their best valuation levels in 20 years.
One buy signal: Transportation stocks are rising in tandem with the blue-chip index, an occurrence that many investors view as a harbinger of more gains.
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In Hong Kong, Chau expects that falling interest rates will help stocks as a whole, especially such blue-chip property developers as Cheung Kong and Sun Hung Kai Properties, both Chau holdings, since lower borrowing costs should stimulate demand for property. (Fair disclosure: Through cef Holdings, Cheung Kong is an investor in Chau's employer, TAL CEF Global Asset Management).
And if you are in the market for stocks with decent yields, take a look at some of the blue-chip names knocked down in the panic.
Kramer notes that low-priced stocks are a great place to find fallen angels, or large (formerly) blue chip companies that have fallen out of favor for various reasons, such as missing an overly optimistic earnings forecast or lack of direction from management.
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