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Best Trades Now: Financials, Medical Suppliers & More
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To give investors an edge in this volatile market environment, CNBC asked the experts for their best trades now.
Playing Whisper Numbers
"They’re [Harley Davidson [HOG
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] is also a company that reports on the 17th, which is this week. They’re a 20-day reactor so within 20 days when they beat the whisper number we’re expecting a 6.8 percent price move, but when they miss it, a 0 percent move. So there’s no downside… Google [GOOG
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- John Scherr, WhisperNumber.com founder
Sector Spotlight: Medical Supplies
“We really love the orthopedic market right now. It’s got about, in the United States, about five points of unit growth. Hospitals are making a lot of money on these procedures…So this should be a high single-digit market for the long term.
- Bruce Nudell, UBS Senior Research Analyst
Zimmer [ZMH
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'Good to Go' Financials
"Get out of utilities, buy MasterCard [MA
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- Joe Clark, Financial Enhancement Group
Clark also likes: Volt Information Sciences [VOL
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Thinking Small
“Smaller more value-oriented stocks tend to be a little bit more economically sensitive. They actually started to head down last summer. And just like they led us down, I think they will start to lead us to positive territory as soon as this recover begins.”
- Eric Nelson, Burns Advisory Group Chief Investment Strategist
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