Significados de defensive names en inglés

Among defensive names he liked were telephone companies and convenience store operators.

Some defensive names helped the Dow industrials.

With the nervousness created by the declines in the momentum names, investors have rotated into more defensive names.

Traders said defensive names were being bargain hunted, with investors mindful that Japanese stocks are widely seen as undervalued.

Some equities investors, including those rotating into defensive names to protect against further losses, worried that the declines may run on.

Some rotation into defensive names in the healthcare and utilities sectors also cushioned the Dow and the S&P 500 from steeper losses.

It's more a case of switching... out of riskier stocks into more defensive names, said Phillip Weinberg, a dealer at Karara Capital in Melbourne.