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The market rollercoaster shows no signs of becoming more predictable, as tech stocks lose ground and a Federal Reserve official says that a recession may be unavoidable.
What's an investor to do? CNBC heard from expert strategists about where to put your money.
Old King Coal
"Keep in mind, overseas, that last year, China added around 96,000 megawatts of coal-fired power plants. That's equivalent to about 31 percent of the entire U.S. coal power fleet. ...We like Consol Energy [CNX
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Paul Forward of Stifel, Nicolaus
Forward also recommends Peabody Energy [BTU
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Construct & Fix Your Portfolio
"Global infrastructure investing is going to be $30 trillion over the next 20 years ... The thing about Mueller Water Products [MWA
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-Bob Frick, senior editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine
Frick also likes El Paso [EP
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Cherry-Picking Stocks
"In a challenging growth environment, in a challenging earnings environment, names that are more likely to be able to defend some rate of earnings growth are probably where people want to look right now."
That points investors toward large-cap, globally-diversified growth stocks.
-Stephen Wood of Russell Investments
Wood recommends McDonald's [MCD
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Safety in Quality
"We're big in investing in companies that are paying a dividend and growing their dividend. High-quality dividend plays, to us, short-term and long-term, are the way to go ... I think you can go into industrial stocks, like United Technologies [UTX
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-Joseph Keating of First American Asset Management
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