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Stocks struggled for direction Wednesday following a handful of economic data that confirmed slow growth in the economy. Susan Fulton, president and co-founder of FBB Capital Partners, and
Mike Holland, chairman of Holland & Company, shared their best plays. “There is no such thing as long-term market stability,” Fulton told CNBC. “What you have to do is have a strategy
that takes into account that the market will have moves.” Fulton said as a defensive play, she prefers BIG-CAP NAMES with self-sustaining dividends, such as DuPont , Verizon and
ConocoPhillips . In the meantime, Holland said he also favors LARGE-CAP MULTINATIONAL STOCKS. “These companies have balance sheets that can support that kind of [dividend] payout, growth in
payout and growth in earnings, because they are exposed to the emerging markets of the world,” he said. Holland’s picks include ExxonMobil , Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson . “For these
companies, they’ll all grow much more rapidly than inflation in their dividends and earnings,” he said. “You’re looking at potential double-digit growth over the next five years.”
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and JNJ. No immediate information was available for Fulton or her firm. ______________________________ Disclaimer