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Four Recession-Proof Stocks Investing for 2012 and Beyond :: The ...

Companies / Investing 2012 Jun 27, 2012 - 05:55 AM

By: Money_Morning

Don Miller writes: Despite the efforts of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his cohorts, it looks like gridlock in Congress will push us into a recession in 2013, if not sooner.

In case you haven't been paying attention, "Taxmageddon," and election-year politics have driven the economy to the edge of a "fiscal cliff." This means the start of next year, unless drastic measures are taken in Washington, is looking precarious for investors.

Just look at what recent U.S. economic reports have told us.

"The Chicago Fed's activity index came in at -0.45 Monday morning, while recent weekly unemployment data have been weak and the Michigan consumer confidence is down," said Money Morning Global Investing Strategist Martin Hutchinson. "Given that first-quarter GDP growth was already under 2%, it looks as though the U.S. economy has stalled. Accordingly, we need to ask: how will our investments do in a recession?"

That's why it's time to update our portfolios with recession-proof stocks.

Not All Stocks Can Handle What's Ahead
Tough economic and market conditions saddle most companies with operational and financial problems that aren't easily overcome.

Businesses are usually forced to cut spending and lay off employees. And there are some expenses a company can't eliminate, such as payroll, rent and taxes.

A recession hits the wallets of customers, too, who typically reign in their spending as they scramble to stay afloat.

That becomes a double whammy for corporations.

Orders for new products slow to a trickle. Some customers slow payments or may not pay their bills at all, crippling cash flows.

Still, there are certain businesses that flourish in the adversity of a recession -- making them safe harbors for your investment dollars during bad market conditions.

For instance, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), Family Dollar Stores Inc. (NYSE: FDO), Amgen Inc. (Nasdaq: AMGN), Celgene Corp. (Nasdaq: CELG) and Southwestern Energy Co. (NYSE: SWN) were some of the market's top performers in 2008.

But why did they do so well when everyone else was struggling to make ends meet?

Turns out, there are certain things people just can't live without, no matter what the economy is doing. And sometimes the most mundane companies provide the best returns.

Here are four "boring" recession-proof stocks to consider now.

Four Recession-Proof Stocks:
The Essential Service Provider: Automatic Data Processing (Nasdaq: ADP) is a great example of a technology service provider that generates buckets of recurring revenue every month by serving an essential function to corporations.

In fact, the company now cuts paychecks for approximately one out of every six Americans.

But that's just for starters.

Despite stubbornly high unemployment in the U.S., ADP has managed to maintain a strong customer base by providing an array of services including hiring, managing compensation and benefits packages, and overseeing retirement planning for employees.

That diversity has allowed ADP to increase revenue every year since 2003 and reward investors with steady and regular dividend increases.

The company has raised its dividend every year since 2004 and currently distributes $1.58 annually, yielding slightly less than 3%.

This is a stock that should weather any recession and provide investors with regular and increasing dividends for the foreseeable future.

The Dominant Discount Retailer: As budgets are tested by an economic downturn, people tend to cut back discretionary spending. Instead, they bargain hunt for the bare necessities, and investors should do the same.

With 1400 stores across 48 states, Big Lots Inc. (NYSE: BIG) is a closeout retailer offering mega-discounts on a wide range of products including groceries, home appliances, furniture and apparel.

BIG owns a massive and efficient distribution system that gets its products to the smallest towns via strategically located distribution centers in Ohio, California, Alabama, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania.

The company has grown earnings per share by over 82% over the last five years compared to just 8.2% for the industry as a whole.

And a price/earnings ratio of 14 makes it a bargain compared to fashionable Costco Wholesale Corp. (Nasdaq: CSCO), which carries a hefty multiple of 25.

A Smoking Sin Stock: No matter where you stand on smoking, the companies that make them keep raking in cash despite declines in domestic cigarette consumption.

Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) sells its products in over 180 countries worldwide, including category-killer brands like Marlboro and Red & White.

While competitors like British American Tobacco PLC (ADR NYSEAMEX: BTI) limp on with year-on-year quarterly revenue growth under 2%, PM posted world-beating 26% growth last quarter, driven by increasing demand in Asia and Latin America.

PM also offers a substantial dividend yield of 4.33%, compared to the industry average of just 1.77% and healthy operating margins of 17.45%.

The Health Care Dividend Juggernaut: People get sick and die no matter what happens with the economy.

Healthcare companies like Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) will continue to benefit from an aging population - with or without a recession.

ABT is a diversified medical device-maker and pharmaceutical company thattrades at 11 times next year's earnings and continues to grow through acquisitions.

Almost 60% of sales now come from abroad, with 23% from fast-growing emerging markets.

Best of all, ABT provides investors with a steady stream of strong cash flow from dividends. The sleepy giant has paid dividends like clockwork since 1924 and sports a spotless record of raising its dividend for the past four decades.

It currently pays a distribution of 3.8% and is projected to grow earnings 11% per year over the next five years.

ABT is a solid long-term holding that has already weathered the worst economic storms.

Remember, just because a market is in turmoil doesn't mean there aren't places like recession-proof stocks where you can ride it out.

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Flu immunity is affected by how many viruses actually cause the infection

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Not only does the type of flu virus affect a patient's outcome, but a new research report appearing in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology suggests that the number of viruses involved in the initial infection may be important too. Scientists from Canada found that when mice were infected by relatively high concentrations of the flu virus, they not only developed immunity against the virus that infected them, but this also promoted the generation of a type of immune cell in the lungs poised to rapidly react against infections with other strains of the flu, as well. Mice that were infected with a relatively low concentration of the virus developed weaker immunity against the strain that infected them, did not build up this crucial population of immune cells in the lungs, and showed only delayed immunity toward other flu strains. This discovery could pave the way for new prophylactic strategies to fight flu infections and provides a novel basis for vaccine design.

"Hopefully, the findings of our study will help to develop better vaccine preparations that will be more effective in inducing protective cellular immunity to fight against infectious pathogens such as bacteria, viruses and fungi," said Martin V. Richter, Ph.D., the lead researcher involved in the work from the Department of Medicine at the Universit? de Sherbrooke and Centre de Recherche Clinique ?tienne-Le Bel in Qu?bec, Canada.

To make this discovery, scientists infected two groups of mice with two different infectious doses of influenza A (H3N2) and analyzed several aspects of inflammation and immunity during the initial infection as well as during reinfection with a different strain of virus. The first group was infected with a low dose of the virus whereas the second group was infected with a high dose of the same virus. Mice infected with the high dose showed increased morbidity, a greater degree of lung inflammation, but also a greater recruitment of influenza-specific immune cells (CD8+ T cells) into their lungs, and a better generation of long-lived respiratory CD8+ T cells called memory CD8+ T cells. In contrast, the mice infected with the low dose of virus suffered less from primary infection but all of the immune responses were induced to lower levels. Consequently, reinfection of mice, 60 days after primary infection, revealed that mice previously infected with a higher dose showed increased protection due to greater magnitude of the memory CD8+ T cell pool present in their lungs before reinfection. This is the first demonstration that the initial infectious dose has an important impact on the generation of specific types of immune memory cells and on the degree of immune protection against reinfection.

"Recent experience with emerging and mutating strains of influenza virus highlight how very few changes in this virus could lead to a catastrophic flu crisis," said John Wherry, Ph.D., Deputy Editor of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology. "While considerable efforts have been invested in predicting new emerging flu strains for our yearly vaccines, it is impossible to prepare for every possible way the flu can mutate. This new research shows that it may be possible to enhance current vaccines to offer broader protection against different flu strains, known and unknown."

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Most valuable movie poster could sell for $1M

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The film was silent, but the poster roared. When German artist Heinz Schulz-Neudamm created a poster for the Fritz Lang's 1927 German science-fiction dystopian "Metropolis," he probably didn't imagine it would fetch a record $690,000 nearly a century later.

The poster's selling price in 2005 is still a record. And it's slated to set a new one.

Earlier this year the illustration, with its jagged lettering, stoic skyscrapers and blank-faced femme-robot has been appraised at $250,000 in a bankruptcy filing by owner Kenneth Schacter, a collector.

But in March, it went up for sale with an $850,000 list price, and some appraisers estimate it could be the first poster to sell for $1 million.

The painting is centered around an animatronic woman, called the Robot, used by a mad scientist to seduce oppressed workers living in a futuristic city where the wealthy rule from chic, towering buildings. Filmed during the pre-Nazi period of the Weimar Republic, "Metropolis" was written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou.

Poster dealer Sean Linkenback told the Guardian that Schulz-Neudamm's poster is "the crown jewel of the poster world."

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New site tells what you ? and everyone else ? is doing

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Hate your boss? Are you hungover? Did you smoke some weed? If you keep these thoughts and actions to yourself, step away from this story now. But if you share that kind of info?on Facebook, you could be featured on a new website that?simply combs through publicly?available,?posted comments from the social network.

Among the examples shared on We Know What You're Doing:?

I'm getting so mad right now I hate my boss Jay I hope he dies better yet I feel like killin him if you in a bad mood don't take it out on everyone at the job

Never been so hungover. :(

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And it's not just what's being said, it's who's saying it. That's right: "Your name here,"?basically, especially if you haven't set stronger privacy controls on who sees your information. Your name and photo ? if you have one posted publicly ? could show up on We Know What You're Doing.

We Know What You're Doing also was sharing new phone numbers that social network users publicly posted for anyone to see. But site creator Callum Haywood, who lives in Nottingham, England, told msnbc.com in an email interview?Tuesday that "just earlier?today I started to censor people's phone numbers, so they were not directly visible."

What, you didn't think your remarks about your boss, your drinking, your drugging, were public? Then this site ? and the warning it gives ? is for you, a wakeup call that should catapult you into action, into reviewing your Facebook?settings.

And it's not the first time a site like this has popped up. Back in the Internet's ancient times of 2010, a site called Please Rob Me raised hackles ? and some consciousness???when it shared Facebook info from people publicly posting about being away from home on vacations. (I say "some consciousness,"?because there still way too many people publicly sharing that they'll be in Bermuda, or wherever, for the next 2 weeks, and away from home.)

Haywood, who says he's an 18-year-old Web developer, came up with the idea based on a video, "I Know What You Did Five Minutes Ago," from Ignite London 4's conference last year, which showed how easily personal information can be plucked and culled from Web users who aren't more careful about privacy settings.

Facebook's privacy controls, Haywood says, "are very effective when used correctly." But, as?noted recently, those privacy controls can be more confusing and?harder to understand than?the small print coming from credit card companies and even government entities, according to a recent survey.

As to We Know What You're Doing's information, "There is nothing on this website that cannot be accessed by anyone else," Haywood says on the site.

"These people probably wouldn't want this info (published), would they?" Haywood says in his own Q-and-A. His answer:

Probably not to be fair, but it was their choice, or lack of, with regards to their account privacy settings. People have lost their jobs in the past due to some of the posts they put on Facebook, so maybe this demonstrates why. Efforts have been made to remove any personal data from the results, such as the actual phone numbers, surnames, etc. The data is still easily accessible from the API, the filters have been put in place to protect the site from legal issues.

The lesson to be learned, he writes: "Just make sure your Facebook privacy settings are sufficient, for example don't publish status updates containing potentially risky material as 'Public' because then they have a good chance of showing up in the public Graph API ... The problem is not with Facebook themselves, when used correctly, their privacy controls are very good. The problem is how people simply don't understand the risks of sharing everything."

As word spreads about We Know What You're Doing, Haywood told msnbc.com he'll keep the site going "for?as long as necessary."

"I am willing to change the site in response to people's reactions," he said. "The problem still stands though:?the data is accessible from Facebook anyway, so any site can pick it up. People need to be aware of this."

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