Blue chip stocks

Common stock of well-known companies with a history of growth and dividend payments.

Blue Chip Stock

Stock in a well-known and highly respected publicly-traded company. Blue chip companies are usually financially sound and are thought to be relatively low-risk investments. They tend to be less volatile than other companies and to provide solid growth to portfolios. Examples in the United States include General Electric and Coca-Cola. Indices such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average tracks blue chip stocks.

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Satyendra Pathak Doha Qatar's stock market rose for a third straight session on Monday, boosted by blue chip stocks amid rising oil prices.

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Yet at the same time the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate surged 9 basis points to 4.97% -- highest since April 2011 -- as blue chip stocks marched to record highs again despite trade/tariff setbacks.

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Joseph Roxas, president of Eagle Equities, said institutional investors seemed to be back in play, buying blue chip stocks as recent price declines had made them more attractive.

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With political uncertainty still heavily prevalent and international pressure on the country growing, analysts and brokers have advised investors to maintain caution and focus on fundamentally strong blue chip stocks.

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Oil majors were among the blue chip stocks giving the market a leg-up, as they tracked the price of Brent crude, which rose 2.4% to 63.58 a barrel.

FTSE hits a record as oil prices leap

"There has been a broad-based buying in the last three to four trading sessions and the frontrunners were blue chip stocks or bank shares," added Suresh Kumar.

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What really dominated the market momentum this week was speculative trading and profit-taking in addition to a limited but lively buying of some blue chip stocks, namely those from the banking, services, and real estate sectors, said the two market pundits.

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UAE bourses offer blue chip stocks at attractive prices; banking scrips in focus.

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Now that blue chip stocks are more accessible in board lot size of 100 units, I would encourage retail investors to seriously consider share investing as a way to diversify their portfolio and grow their savings for retirement.

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It is about keeping it really blue chip stocks which is the tradition of the Dow - 30 really blue chip, solid American companies.'

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The CBR is to consider resuming the use of Russian blue chip stocks as collateral for REPO (this measure was used in 2009, but the average haircut was 50% and it was never really that important from the point of view of providing liquidity to the system).