Dividend Increases

IBM has raised its dividend by 10% to 0.55 a share.Other firms who have raised theirs are 3M,Wal-Mart,Johnson and Johnson,and Exxon Mobil.

The Bryn Mawr View

Eric Thorne of Bryn Mawr Trust,which has about 120 years of money management experience,says they still think that equities have a place in portfolios.Dividend stocks are a good place to be.See if they have any top line growth and good cash flow.We think there's quite a bit of value in tech stocks such as IBM and Hewlett Packard.These are companies that have an amazing track record,that people will go to when they ramp up.We're just gonna bide our time and then up our position,Mr.Thorne said.We don't think that bonds will outperform stocks as they did in 2008,he added.

Strong on Tech

Greg Merino of Ameriway Financial Services advises dollar-costing into the market;don't go in with both feet.Overweight large cap tech such as IBM,Google and Apple.Ken Fisher of Fisher Investments says tech will be one of the sectors to recover first,since it was one of those that deteriorated last.

Buy Recommendations

Citigroup(C) recommends General Electric(GE).Deutsche Bank(DB) recommends General Motors(GM) and IBM.