Stock Markets Exposed

Can someone please give me four diversified stocks for my class stock market game...?

They can be fromm Dow, NASDAQ, or S&P... We are given $1,000,000 and have to put 250,000 on each stock. I want to do good... We are not penalized if we pick bad ones...

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1. Go to Morningstar.com and you can see all the stocks you want! Good luck.
2. You can buy exchange traded index funds (ETF's) that have many companies in them and are designed to follow the indexes such as Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P. Here are the stock symbols for these funds: QQQQ (for NASDAQ) DIA (for Dow) IWM (for Russel 2000) SPY (for S&P) MDY (for S&P)
3. Four diversified stocks. I'd pick one from the Financial sector, one from the Services sector, one from the Pharmaceutical/Medical sector and one from the Energy sector. Financial: BAC (Bank of America...excellent P/E ratio and good dividend). Services: TGT (Target...gotten cheap lately). Pharmaceutical/Medical: GENZ (Genzyme) or PFE (Pfizer). Energy: speculative RTK (Renteck...they convert coal into liquid gas, which will be a good buy if oil imports to this country are limited because of political turmoil). Just some thoughts...good luck :-)
4. Energy - XOM Financial - WFC Healthcare - HUM Technology - MSFT A combination of these probably won't win a stock market contest, but they are four stocks that, in combination, represent diversification.
5. CAT Catipillar Machinery Inc. Has a great dividend and relatively safe. MO Philip Morris Tobbacco. Good dividend and also invests some money into Kraft Foods. Like getting 2 stocks for one! SIRI Sirius Satellite Radio. No dividend kind of risky but I feel in my bones it is going to go up around 20 percent or more by the end of the year. Just be sure to ditch it before January. It will go back down. QQQQ Nasdaq 100 Not that exciting but is an ETF stock fund that gives you exposure to 100 different stocks. Good luck to you!
6. You didn't mention a time line....assuming that your "final" is a semester away.....you might want to concentrate on high dividend paying holdings.....instead of hoping to find one great stock [with the other 4 NOT losing $$$$$] You might want to look at: RNE, IAF, IFN, USA, PEO note on the PEO..it pays a large dividend at the end of the year...usually in Nov....from all the OIL stocks that it holds For stocks....you might want to look at: SYN, TTM , TTOO, Greenbriar (ooops, forgot the letters), SNDK, NOK, MOT, HMC JNS, JNC, TIE, BARR, TEVA, BCS, AVZ do your homework, analysis,,,and remember to diversify your holdings.... Personally, I'd go with the first group of closed-end funds and bank on the high divident rates Good luck