The Top Defense Stock to Buy in 2017
"North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen."
-- President Donald Trump
When the Commander in Chief of the most powerful military in the world is making comments like the one above about another nuclear-armed nation, it's quite understandable that you'd be seeking shelter in the defense sector. Perhaps unsurprisingly, defense stocks are one of the few areas of the market that tend to respond well to threats of global war (although there's always Hormel, maker of Spam, which is said to be able to survive even a nuclear holocaust).
Source: Fool.com