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Given the sluggish recovery and a strapped consumer, you'd expect to see corporate America trudging along, not racing for glory. In fact, the Fortune 500 are thriving as a group.

There's a lot of overlap among the holdings of Morningstar's 26 highly rated funds, and these 10 stocks top the list. So if you want to follow the pros, consider these -- all of them mega-cap stocks and ultra-conservative buys.

Exxon Mobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips are all trading near multi-year highs, and even BP shares have done well recently. Still, while the high oil prices that have been pinching consumers have been great for the industry, there are good reasons not to count on those high stock values lasting.

Dozens of companies report earnings this week, and analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters are anticipating lots of strong quarterly reports. Among those posting improved results should be Microsoft and Visa. However, likely to post losses are Office Depot and Sprint Nextel.

The latest quarterly filing from Warren Buffett's Bekshire Hathaway shows what changes the Oracle of Omaha made to his portfolio. What led him to buy into payment processor Fiserv and raise his stake in J&J?

Four of the world's largest oil companies are forming a joint venture to create a rapid-response system to capture and contain oil spills in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Executives from the nation's largest oil companies will be on Capitol Hill on Tuesday morning to testify before lawmakers about the safety of offshore oil drilling and future U.S. energy policy.

European debt worries, the rising dollar and falling oil prices are conspiring to knock down oil company shares. But this trio could be getting whacked harder than they deserve -- especially if you don't believe the dollar will keep climbing.

The fact that British oil giant BP's profits soared 135% in the first quarter bodes well for the slate of oil companies announcing earnings this week. Thanks to the steady rise in the price of oil over the past year, results from the oil majors should not disappoint.

With $357 billion worth of small investor money sitting in cash, Wednesday's Dow poke-through to 10,000 ought to bring a large shift of cash into stocks. The question is where investors ought to put it. While it may make sense to just buy stock index funds, there are going to be people who prefer...