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Conservative Stock List======================================================================================================== 1. Company: Abbott Laboratories (ABT) Abbott Laboratories engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of health care products worldwide. It operates in four segments: Pharmaceutical Products, Diagnostic Products, Nutritional Products, and Vascular Products. Abbott has a 50% owned joint venture with TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Inc.; a strategic alliance with Celera Diagnostics; and a collaboration with Genentech, Inc. to develop anti-cancer compounds. Abbott was founded in 1888 and is based in Abbott Park, Illinois. ======================================================================================================== 2. Company: Apple Inc. (AAPL) Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells personal computers, portable digital music players, and mobile communication devices, as well as related software, services, peripherals, and networking solutions worldwide. As of September 30, 2007, the company had 197 retail stores in the United States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Italy. Apple Inc. was founded in 1976. It was formerly known as Apple Computer, Inc. and changed its name to Apple Inc. in January 2007. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, California. ======================================================================================================== 3. Company: Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (BAM) Brookfield Asset Management Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company with approximately $50 billion in assets under management. Through its subsidiaries the firm invests in the property, power, and infrastructure sectors. Its property business include owning and managing office properties, developing master planned residential communities, and offering clients bridge and mezzanine lending; alternative assets funds; and financial and advisory services. Through its power generation business the firm operates hydroelectric power facilities, interconnections and transmission facilities in Northeast North America, and development of wind power in Canada. Through its funds and private capital business the firm invests in specialty funds including private equity and makes direct investments in real estate, energy, and resource assets. It also makes investments in privately held investment management and equity and fixed income mutual funds. The firm was formerly known as Brascan Corp. Brookfield Asset Management is based in Calgary, Alberta with additional offices in London, and New York City. ========================================================================================================
4. Company: Duke Energy Corp. (DUK) Duke Energy Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a power company in the United States. The company supplies and delivers energy to approximately 4 million U.S. customers. It has approximately 36,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Midwest and the Carolinas, as well as approximately 4,000 megawatts of electric generation in Latin America. It also develops and manages fiber optic systems for wireless, local, and long-distance communications companies, Internet service providers, and various businesses and organizations. Duke Energy was founded 1916 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. ======================================================================================================== 5. Company: The Home Depot, Inc (HD) The Home Depot, Inc. operates as a home improvement retailer primarily in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It operates The Home Depot stores, which sell building materials, home improvement supplies, and lawn and garden products to do-it-yourself customers, do-it-for-me customers, home improvement contractors, tradespeople, and building maintenance professionals. It also offers its products through catalog and online sales businesses. As of August 30, 2007, the company operated 2,206 retail stores in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, 10 Canadian provinces, Mexico, and China. The Home Depot, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. ======================================================================================================== 6. Company: Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (MER) Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides broker-dealer, investment banking, financing, wealth management, advisory, asset management, insurance, lending, and related products and services worldwide. Merrill Lynch & Co. has operations primarily in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific Rim, and Latin America. The company was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in New York, New York. ========================================================================================================
7. Company: Pepsico, Inc. (PEP) PepsiCo, Inc. operates as a snack and beverage company. Its Frito-Lay North America division manufactures, markets, sells, and distributes branded snacks, including Lay's potato chips, Doritos tortilla chips, Tostitos tortilla chips, Cheetos cheese flavored snacks, Fritos corn chips, Ruffles potato chips, Quaker Chewy granola bars, SunChips multigrain snacks, Rold Gold pretzels, Santitas tortilla chips, Frito-Lay nuts, Grandma's cookies, Munchies snack mix, Gamesa cookies, Lay's Stax potato crisps, Funyuns onion flavored rings, Quaker Quakes corn and rice snacks, Miss Vickie's potato chips, branded crackers, Quaker snack mix, Smartfood popcorn, Chester's fries, Stacy's pita chips, and Quaker Fruit and Oatmeal bars. PepsiCo Beverages North America division manufactures or uses contract manufacturers, markets, and sells beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Tropicana Pure Premium, Lipton, Sierra Mist, Tropicana juice drinks, Propel, Dole, and SoBe brands. It also offers ready-to-drink tea, coffee, and water products through joint ventures with Unilever and Starbucks, as well as licenses the Aquafina water brand to its bottlers. PepsiCo International division offers various salty and sweet snack brands, including Lay's, Walkers, Cheetos, Doritos, Ruffles, Gamesa, and Sabritas; various Quaker brand snacks; and beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the brands Pepsi, 7UP, Mirinda, Gatorade, Tropicana, and Mountain Dew. Quaker Foods North America division provides cereals, rice, pasta, and other branded products, which include Quaker oatmeal, Aunt Jemima mixes and syrups, Cap'n Crunch cereal, Quaker grits, Life cereal, Rice-A-Roni, Pasta Roni, and Near East side dishes. The company distributes its products through direct-store-delivery, broker-warehouse, and food service and vending distribution networks. PepsiCo was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York. ======================================================================================================== 8. Company: Pfizer Inc. (PFE) Pfizer, Inc. engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of prescription medicines for humans and animals in the United States, Europe, Canada, Asia, and Latin America. It serves retailers, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, hospitals, pharmacy benefit managers, managed care organizations, and government agencies. Pfizer has collaboration with Icagen, Inc.; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; and Graffinity Pharmaceuticals AG. The company was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in New York, New York. ======================================================================================================== 9. Company: Southern Union Co. (SUG) Southern Union Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the gathering, processing, transportation, storage, and distribution of natural gas in the United States. The company operates in three segments: Transportation and Storage, Gathering and Processing, and Distribution. As of December 31, 2006, the company distributed natural gas to approximately 560,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers through local distribution systems consisting of 8,983 miles of mains, 6,028 miles of service lines, and 45 miles of transmission lines. The company was incorporated in 1932 and is based in Houston, Texas. ======================================================================================================== 10. Company: Intel Corp. (INTC) ntel Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of semiconductor chips, as well as in the development of advanced integrated digital technology platforms for the computing and communications industries worldwide. The company's customers include original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, PC and network communications products users, and other manufacturers. Intel was founded in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara, California. ======================================================================================================== Disclaimer: I am not a registered investment advisor. Everything on this website is my opinion and put her for the enjoyment of my readers. I do not recommend making financial decisions based upon my opinions. I advocate doing your own research and making an informed decision. All information put forth on this website was obtained freely via the internet, radio and television. I do not have any contracts or deals with any financial newsletter of any kind. Income generated from this site is done through advertisements. I will always let my reader know if I hold any position on a recommendation I make. ========================================================================================================
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