With oil prices falling, corporate earnings still growing, and consumer confidence on the mend, the stock market has awakened from its 10-month slumber.
Yet there still are plenty of reasons to be pessimistic. The economic landscape includes an energy shock, a cooling housing market, rising inflation, and Federal Reserve rate hikes.
Because of the mixed signals, the stocks we're recommending for 2006 don't depend on a rousing economy or a rising-tide stock market.
After reviewing the latest research and interviewing dozens of analysts and money managers, we trained our sights on 10 moderate-P/E stocks positioned to benefit from secular -- not cyclical -- trends. If tech stocks take off, our picks may not keep pace. But in a rocky market, they should provide a margin of safety.
Here are the 10:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/13/markets/10stocksanalysis_fortune_122605/index.htm?section=money_latest
Yet there still are plenty of reasons to be pessimistic. The economic landscape includes an energy shock, a cooling housing market, rising inflation, and Federal Reserve rate hikes.
Because of the mixed signals, the stocks we're recommending for 2006 don't depend on a rousing economy or a rising-tide stock market.
After reviewing the latest research and interviewing dozens of analysts and money managers, we trained our sights on 10 moderate-P/E stocks positioned to benefit from secular -- not cyclical -- trends. If tech stocks take off, our picks may not keep pace. But in a rocky market, they should provide a margin of safety.
Here are the 10:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/13/markets/10stocksanalysis_fortune_122605/index.htm?section=money_latest
