Three plays on a resurgent America

Despite all the doom and gloom, the US economy is slowly emerging from recession. Here, Marc Lichtenfeld suggests three diverse stocks that should flourish in the recovery.

Recent government data showed that the US economy expanded strongly during the fourth quarter of 2009, galloping along at an annualised 5.7% GDP growth rate.

Now admittedly, numbers like this get revised more often than a five-year-old's alibi when questioned about a broken vase. But given that GDP contracted by 5.4% in the fourth quarter of 2008, that's quite a comeback.

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