Serious Money: How safe were BRK, BUD, PG, SO, & UPS?

Filed under: Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Wal-Mart (WMT), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Anheuser-Busch Cos (BUD), Procter and Gamble (PG), United Parcel'B' (UPS), Washington Mutual (WM), PetroChina Co Ltd ADR (PTR), Comfort Zone Investing, Serious Money, S and P 500, Stocks to Buy, Southern Company (SO)

The stock market was down yesterday and it is down again today. Bearish sentiment is roaming through Wall Street right now, so I thought I would look back on another occasion when the market was going through similar turmoil and I wrote about the following eight stocks, which I thought would be "safe havens" in such a storm.

Six of the eight did well and two did not, and of course one of those two was a disaster. Among the losers, I do not think anyone is fretting about UPS, which is still one of the few triple-A rated companies along with Berkshire Hathaway.