Last year’s deadbeats do best as stocks stall

Published April 24, 2014 7:01am ET



NEW YORK (AP) — Financial markets rarely stick to the script, and this year is no different.

Investments traditionally considered safe bets such as utilities, gold and government bonds were supposed to flop in 2014 as investors started to pour money into higher-risk, higher-growth stocks that would benefit from a pickup in the economy.

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