The tricky thing about recessions is that it's hard to know when the next one is going to strike. And sometimes, you'll hear rumblings of a recession when the market is doing extraordinarily well, the logic being that all good things economy-related must, at some point, come to
There probably aren't too many companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange with an operating history going back over 230 years that are virtually unknown to U.S. investors.