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a common stock of a nationally known company whose value and dividends are reliable; typically have high price and low yield
blue chips are usually safe investments
How To Use blue-chip stock In A Sentence
- Blue-chip stocks fell sharply yesterday, as nervy investors caught sight of more gloomy economic data on the US horizon.
- In contrast to solid blue-chip stocks, growth companies are moderately risky.
- In London, a host of blue-chip stocks fell back with tech, telecom and banking shares among the main fallers in the City.
- In most balanced funds, blue-chip stocks and high-quality bonds are the staples.
- The product is linked to a basket of 24 blue-chip stocks across a broad spectrum of companies and industry sectors.
- There was heavy buying in major blue-chip stocks, including pharmaceuticals and banking issues.
- Analysts said stop-loss selling that had aggravated the recent sell-off in blue-chip stocks was continuing, while profit-taking put a brake on recent gainers such as Sharp Corp.
- Only five blue-chip stocks ended in the red, four of them miners. Times, Sunday Times
- In real terms this means the vinous equivalent of blue-chip stocks - classed-growth clarets, a very small number of burgundies and Rhone reds, some Italian reds and a handful of rare New World ‘boutique’ wines.
- You can find great opportunities in stodgy old-fashioned blue-chip stocks. How should you invest in a bad economy? Stocks? Bonds?