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Pharmas, energy, information technology and industrials are still good defensive plays, Grant Bowers, portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton Investments, told "Worldwide Exchange."
Biotechnology company Celgene [CELG
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Information technology giant, Qualcomm [QCOM
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Other stocks Bowers likes are FMC Technologies [FMC
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Investors have to look to own the best companies in the market, ones that are high quality, high growth, to get them through the downturn, Bowers told CNBC.
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