But from a borrower's point of view, cable was junk and network TV was blue chip.
They try to deliver to an institutional investor base that requires blue chip, steady state performance.
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Since Halloween, the U.S. sovereign debt relative to these blue chip corporates has deteriorated sharply.
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It has lined up some blue chip partners, including Dow, Valero and the engineering firm Linde.
But he notes that any blue chip stock with staying power makes a good DRIP candidate.
That is a formula that is golden and as solid as blue chip stocks.
Focus on blue chip large-cap growth stocks in business areas that are easy to understand.
Some of these forays, like high-yield bonds and blue chip dividend stocks, have performed well.
Or ride it as a potential blue chip investment, holding it for years?
Historically, dividend chasers have looked at blue chip stocks to find predictable dividend players.
The blue chip index shot up 0.6% to 13.939.29 shortly after the Opening Bell.
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The blue chip index last reached that mark in 2007, shortly before the financial crisis began.
This was the first three hundred-point drop for the blue chip index in almost a year.
It said its clients include the major blue chip operators in the food service and vending market.
Only bonds from sovereign governments and blue chip corporations have a better reputation for credit-worthiness than munis.
Just to give you some context, the blue chip, at the same time, was minus 1.5 percent.
Blue chip companies, however, set sustainable dividend policies that will continue to hold up their share prices.
He tends to buys a lot of big blue chip stocks that have been underfollowed by Wall Street.
The espionage group mainly targeted U.S. blue chip companies in 20 separate industries from aerospace to financial services.
On the pace of recovery, CBO bases their projections on the consensus forecast of blue chip economic forecasters.
Also extraordinary is that the dividend yields on blue chip stocks remains in the 4% to 5% range.
But Church predicts that the market will soon come around on this blue chip, which is his biggest holding.
Louis Navellier's Blue Chip Growth Letter is another selective health care buyer.
Of economists surveyed by Blue Chip Economic Indicators, 89% say worries about the fiscal cliff will hurt second-half growth.
Still, management is ecstatic to get additional backing from its blue chip shareholder.
As they grow and as the market expects blue chip behaviour from them, their ability to fasten onto innovation declines.
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Think of Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio or Lou Gehrig bats and balls as Hamptons real estate or blue chip stocks.
But few companies, even the blue chip kind, offer outsized dividends because things are going particularly well on the ground.
But with every dot-com blue chip, there were the dogs as well -- think of the likes of Pets.com and Globe.com.
Today marked the eleventh worst day this year for the blue chip index and its largest fall in nearly two months.
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