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Definition: Defensive Stocks

Any company stocks that tends to remain stable during a stock market downturn or difficult economic conditions are known as defensive stocks. These may include companies from the food, tobacco, oil and utilities sectors because demand for these typical products and service continues through out any stockmarket downturn.

Any stock that provides a constant dividend and stable earnings regardless of the state of the overall stock market may also have appeal as a defensive stock. Whilst defensive stocks may remain stable during recession - or even performing better than the market, during a market recovery the stock may perform below market expections.

Proactive Investors UK

FTSE 100 sheds 1% during week on weak US GDP data, downbeat Beige Book survey
Proactive Investors UK
Defensive stocks led the way on Friday with water companies United Utilities (LON:UU) and Severn Trent (LON:SVT) climbing 4.4% and 2.3% respectively. ...

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07/31/2010 12:56 PM

Indian shares provisionally close down 0.8%
Daily Times
... with declines in commodity assets outpacing gains in defensive stocks as investors fretted ahead of US economic growth data from the United States. ...

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07/30/2010 11:17 PM

MSN Money UK

Shire among the laggards as FTSE 100 slips
Telegraph.co.uk
As the appetite for risk waned, it fell to defensive stocks to prop up the large caps with utility companies heading the leaderboard. ...
Commodities pull FTSE down, US GDP data dueReuters
Pending US GDP data sends jitters through marketsshareprices.com

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07/30/2010 06:45 PM

Dividends back on companies' agendas
Interactive Investor
Cyclical firms are leading the recovery, increasing their dividend much more quickly than defensive stocks. In contrast, less than 100 firms took an axe to ...

07/30/2010 12:11 PM

Market Comment 30th July 2010
Market Moves
The bulls are definitely in the minority for now, especially since the few gainers on the day are defensive stocks with utilities covering the leader board ...

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07/30/2010 10:20 AM

Why Wall Street Is So Volatile
Ninemsn
Each ETF will have a different purpose – it might be a sector portfolio, or a portfolio of defensive stocks, or growth stocks, or value stocks or whatever. ...

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07/30/2010 04:20 AM

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