Duke is building power plants in Latin America and is involved in Canadian gas ventures. Consider this an aggressive stock for conservative investors. Its EnronOnline service on the Internet offers trading in 600 commodities. It's also into telecom as a wholesaler of bandwidth capacity. The nation's largest packager of residential mortgages for investors is a financial blue chip.
Earnings growth is rock-solid consistent.
IBM is an appropriate technology holding for conservative investors, says strategist A. Marshall Acuff Jr. of Salomon Smith Barney, because its share price doesn't reflect its fundamental strength. UT should benefit significantly from the recovery of Asian economies. This Washington, D.C.-area utility has paid dividends for 149 consecutive years and raised them each of the past 24. WGL is aided by above-average customer growth, a healthy balance sheet and new activities in unregulated energy markets. The Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc.