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OptionsZone Experts, March 19, 2009 Free Trading Guides

IBM (IBM)

Shares of Big Blue sung the blues in 2008, but that's no reason to feel sad about the company's future prospects. The IT giant is still the premier global technology services firm, and that's not likely to change just because the world's economy is in a funk. Having weathered numerous economic downturns during its nearly 100-year history (including the Depression years) there is no reason to suspect that IBM (IBM) won't be able to weather the current economic storm.

The computing landscape is always changing, and companies that adapt to that change are going to be the ones that survive. A big part of successful adaptation is having the capital and the resources at hand to make the necessary adjustments, and no company has proven more adept at adaptation than IBM.

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