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The Business Insider submits: Crises come in many forms, whether they be due to the financial system, food, water, or war. That's why there are many different kinds of defensive investments and industries. Here's a guide to the potential investments themes which could perform well across a variety of crises, combined with actionable ideas to investigate, and some of the famous bulls who are back them.Complete Story »

Michael Tarsala submits: It's hard to find a more beaten defense name than Raytheon (RTN).That said, its 25% drop from the April highs could reverse soon.Complete Story »

Brooks McFeely submits:4:16 PM, Dec 31, 2009 --

• NYSE down 56 (0.8%) to 7,184.92.
• DJIA down 120 (1.1%) to 10,428.
• S&P 500 down 11 (1%) to 1,115.
• Nasdaq down 22.1 (1%) to 2,269.

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Trader Mark submits:I've been scratching my head and wondering where all the good action is, because most of the stocks / or sectors I am interested in have done next to nothing for 5-6 weeks. In fact, many fashionable sectors in the spring and summer have seen their stocks hit, while the indexes remain up. Which means, there is a bull market somewhere - just not in areas we typically look at. Aside from the large caps mentioned this morning, we have a very curious group of stocks surging since early to mid November: utilities, healthcare, some retail - I can't find any rhyme or reason to these names other than they are relatively safe havens (at least in defense, utilities, and healthcare). Looks like a massive sector rotation has played out ... or it could just be all the "hot groups" (the anti-dollar trade, or more speculative junk stocks) were run up so much even the egregious bulls thought it was time to give them a break. Complete Story »

Hao Jin submits:The market has spoiled investors over the past 7 months with one direction only: up. This Great Recession seems to turn into the Great Recovery. Are there any cheap growth stocks left for bargain-hunting investors? I use following 8 criteria to select undervalued growth companies:Complete Story »

Steve Alexander submits:DynCorp International Corp. (DCP) is a government contractor that operates in three business segments:Global Stabilization and Development Solutions (GSDS, 36% of revenues, 30% of operating profits) provides policing and police training, security and personal protection for government officials and diplomats, and military base logistics such as electricity, water, sewage, and laundry under the recently awarded Logistics Civil Augmentation Program ((LOGCAP)) IV program.Complete Story »