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By Brooke Sopelsa, Video Producer | 28 May 2008 | 11:45 AM ET

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To give investors an edge, CNBC asked the market experts where investors should be placing their bets now.

Security Stocks

"We have four companies out there that are growing at 30+ percent internal growth...Just about everyone is growing double digits."

- Brian Ruttenbur, Morgan Keegan Homeland Security Analyst

Ruttenbur likes: AuthenTec [AUTH Loading... () ], FLIR Systems [FLIR Loading... () ], ICX Technologies [ICXT Loading... () ] and L-1 Identity Solutions [ID Loading... () ].

Chemical Plays

[On Dow Chemical [DOW Loading... () ]] "They have an interesting dynamic that will be occurring later on this year, in that they're joint-venturing some of their chemical businesses and plastics businesses with the Kuwaitis, and they're going to receive an enormous amount of cash for that...We think they will choose to reinvest that in acquisitions and perhaps some share buybacks."

- Michael Judd, Greenwich Consultants

Judd also likes: Monsanto [MON Loading... () ], Agrium [AGU Loading... () ], CF Industries Holdings [CF Loading... () ], Compass Minerals [CMP Loading... () ], Mosaic [MOS Loading... () ] and Potash [POT Loading... () ].

Diamonds in the Rough

"Consol [CNX Loading... () ] is tied into the coal story...Today, we've seen countries like Vietnam talk about stopping exports of coal; India's power plants are very short of coal and getting worse, and China, as you know, has inventory problems as well."

- David Khani, Friedman, Billings, Ramsey

Khani also likes: URS [URS Loading... () ], Cephalon [CEPH Loading... () ] and Core Laboratories [CLB Loading... () ].

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