How to spot recession-busting stocks

There is one strategy a business can follow that will give it a better chance than its competitors of weathering a recession. Here, Dr Mike Tubbs explains what it is - and what you should be looking for when buying shares in a downturn.

In a recession, there's one type of company that has a far better than average chance of doing well. It's a company that increases its research and development (R&D) through the hard times, to steal a march on its competitors.

I've been studying this for the past three decades, and the evidence is overwhelming.

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