Weiss' investment strategy is to select blue-chip stocks with a long history of paying dividends and trading at the high end of their historical range of yields.
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Morgan and Lehman Brothers both downgraded a number of specialty chip and chipmaker names in a pair of pessimistic notes, but gains in select Internet, networking, and telecommunications issues offset some of this pressure.