GE: A Buy for Yield

6/29 - "It pays a yield of nearly 5%. The company is still tremendously profitable and has $15 billion in cash...If the U.S. stock market continues to drop, the successful investing tactics of the last several years, which involve putting money into is stocks because equities in general are rising quickly, may not be a good way to make money this year or next."

"There are a handful of companies with iron-clad balance sheets and big dividends. The stocks of these may not go up, but their dividends are likely to stay intact. GE is at the head of this list."