Rockwell Automation (ROK)

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My individual stocks are doing great. ROK has been the superstar, followed closely by 3M, WAG and several others.

Was just reading that only two Dow stocks are down in 2013 (IBM and CAT), and they're just off about 4%. Hard to do poorly this year.

I'm getting a boost from an unexpected source. I own two mutual funds I bought nearly 30 years ago. Both have been dogs, consistently lagging the S&P. I've kept them but haven't added. I moved mostly to indexing about 20 years ago. But both of those old funds have had fabulous runs lately.

My bonds are suffering lately of course. Vanguard intermediate term muni fund is off 2.0%. The Limited Term Portfolio is about unchanged.