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Stocks to Buy Now: Two Intoxicating Recession-Proof Plays
As you look for stocks to buy now, it's as simple as watching the behavior around you...
For example, you might feel like the fiscal cliff, devastation from Superstorm Sandy and more gridlock in Washington is enough to drive you to drink.
And millions of people are doing just that.
Even in the worst of times, alcoholic beverage companies continue to generate rock-steady revenues and surging profits -- no matter what the rest of the market is doing.
Truth is, not many people will give up their nightly rituals, even if times are tough. During the Great Recession, booze purveyors have been particularly resilient, making them good stocks to buy ahead of slow growth in 2013.
Over the last five years, the S&P 500 has returned less than 1.2% annually. By contrast, a Wine, Beer, and Spirits Folio focused on the sector returned 9.1% per year.
Better yet, beer, wine and liquor makers are one of the few industries that have been able to raise prices, according to an industry report by Value Line.
To cash in on this trend, consider the stocks of these two stalwart beverage companies.
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Stock Market Today: Why We'll Continue to "Drift Sideways"
The stock market today opened higher before falling once again as fiscal cliff concerns continue to weigh on investors' minds.
- Stocks continue to slide- After Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) reported its fiscal first-quarter earnings the markets started the day positive, but quickly turned red. One week after the election, fiscal cliff concerns continue to mount as the president and Congress meet later this week to hopefully negotiate a deal. So far no progress has been made on the debt reduction talks and until that happens don't expect the markets to change course. "We will continue to drift sideways until we see some progress on the fiscal cliff negotiations," Peter Jankovskis, co-chief investment officer for Oakbrook Investments told Bloomberg News in a phone interview.
- President calls for $1.6 trillion more in revenue- When President Obama meets with congressional leaders on Friday he will ask for double the amount of revenue that was discussed at budget talks in 2011. On Tuesday, the president met with union leaders and other liberal groups and stated he will now seek $1.6 trillion in additional revenue over the next decade. That will be accomplished partially through higher tax rates, something Republicans have not yet said they would agree to. But Republicans have offered to accept extra revenue if Democrats can agree to making structural changes to entitlement programs. "New revenue must be tied to genuine entitlement changes," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, said Tuesday. "Republicans are offering bipartisan solutions and now it's the president's turn. He needs to bring his party to the table." An agreement, which included $800 billion of extra revenue, between House Speaker John Boehner, R-OH, and President Obama failed when the President asked for $1.2 trillion in additional revenue. That deal would have lowered the deficit by $4 trillion over ten years, and now President Obama is seeking $1.6 trillion, a number much higher than Republicans will likely agree to.
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Stock Market Today: Why the Sell-off Will Continue into 2013
The stock market today is trying to end the week positive, but fears concerning the fiscal cliff and what a second term for U.S. President Barack Obama means for the markets continue to grow.
Friday, the third day of trading since President Obama was re-elected, looks to be a volatile ending to a scary post-election market. Since the election, the Dow Jones is down more than 3.5%, the S&P 500 is down 3.7% and much of Wall Street thinks this sell-off will continue.
Analysts and CEOs predict the next year to be a very rough one for stocks and the economy, and there might be nothing the president can do to stop the slide.
"Economic prospects might not have been much different if Mitt Romney had won, especially as Congress remains divided. But the subsequent weakness in equities makes sense too," Julian Jessop, chief global economist at Capital Economics, said in a note to clients. "As we had anticipated, the focus has quickly moved on to the uncertainty over the 'fiscal cliff,' and perhaps back to the unsolved crisis in the euro-zone as well."
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Why the Dow Fell Yesterday
Concerns over how politicians will handle the fiscal cliff was the biggest driver behind why the Dow fell yesterday, tumbling more than 300 points in its biggest loss this year.
Political worries were exacerbated by worse than expected monthly sales from McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) and fears that Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) had entered a bear market.
The fiscal cliff continued to dominate investor sentiment today as both Republicans and Democrats expressed their intentions of working together to find a solution to the impending crisis but failed to offer any concrete evidence of their willingness to budge from long-held positions.
Afraid that Republicans and Democrats will not compromise, even when the stakes are high, investors are bailing out. It is too close to the end of the year-too close to bonus time-to be a hero now.
In his victory speech following his re-election on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama said that he is "looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together."
Senate minority leader Republican Mitch McConnell said, "To the extent [the President] wants to move to the political center, which is where the work gets done in a divided government, we'll be there to meet him halfway."
Jim Manley, a former aide to Senate majority leader Democrat Harry Reid, hoped that President Obama would become more personally involved in the negotiations on the resolution of the fiscal cliff.
"He's simply going to have to take a more active and forceful role," Manley told Bloomberg News. "He never got involved in the nitty-gritty of the legislative process. In light of the hyper-partisanship that still surrounds Capitol Hill, he's going to have to change, and he's going to have to take more of a lead in breaking the logjam."
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Stock Market Today: Why Marc Faber Predicts a 20% Slide
The stock market today (Thursday) is recovering slightly from yesterday's massive sell-off. Less than eight hours after President Obama gave his victory speech the Dow Jones was down 300 points yesterday in its biggest drop in over a year.
Even though the markets started today positive, many financial experts, including Marc Faber and Peter Schiff, are extremely bearish now that the president has been re-elected.
Here's what they have to say on the economy and the fiscal cliff, as well as some stocks that investors should avoid.
- Marc Faber warns of 20% market plunge- The Swiss investment analyst and entrepreneur spoke with Fox Business Network on what to expect from the markets during a second Obama term and about the impending fiscal cliff. "I think from the peak the market will drop at least 20%. I think we will revisit the lows of June at 1,266 on the S&P." On the markets' reaction to the election he added, "I'm not surprised the market is selling off because technically the market was weak already for a couple of months and we are in a downtrend and Mr. Obama's economic policies are obviously not very good for an economic expansion."
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Fiscal Cliff: Are We About to See Compromise in Washington?
Now that Election 2012 is over, Washington is readying for its next battle: the fiscal cliff.
U.S. President Barack Obama's victory in Tuesday's election has upset the Republicans' political calculus. The purpose of four years of obstruction was to deny the president any legislative achievements and thereby prevent his re-election.
It didn't work.
With the election behind us, the politics of obstruction has lost its meaning. There is nothing to be gained from obstruction for obstruction's sake.
Boehner made that abundantly clear when he read a statement Wednesday afternoon in which he opened up the possibility of compromise in order to avoid the looming fiscal cliff at the end of the year.
"For purposes of forging a bipartisan agreement that begins to solve the problem, we're willing to accept new revenue, under the right conditions," Boehner said.
"The president has signaled a willingness to do tax reform with lower rates," Boehner continued. "Republicans have signaled a willingness to accept new revenue if it comes from growth and reform. Let's start the discussion there."
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What is the Fiscal Cliff?
What is the fiscal cliff, and how do we avoid it?
The fiscal cliff will be crossed on Jan. 2, 2013 when $530 billion in tax increases and spending cuts at the federal level take place due to a previous budget agreement between Congress and the Obama administration.
Since Congress and the Obama administration could not reach an accord to reduce the federal budget deficit, a series of automatic tax hikes and decreases in spending will take place instead to achieve the necessary savings.
This is much like the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act from 1985. The fiscal cliff will pack a one-two punch to U.S. cities that are already burdened by heavy debt loads, and raise taxes on U.S. households struggling to recover.
What is the Fiscal Cliff Effect on the U.S. Economy?
According to the Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan organization, if there is no other agreement and the fiscal cliff is crossed on Jan. 2, the United States could fall back into a recession in 2013.
That will have a tremendous negative impact on the global economy as Europe is in a recession and economic growth is slowing in China and India.
Based on the 320-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average the day after President Obama's re-election, Wall Street is not bullish about the future of the economy.
