In the good old days they were called blue-chip stocks.

As has often been the case recently, blue-chip stocks led the charge.

Home values that once looked like blue-chip stocks have dropped.

Only five blue-chip stocks were managing to keep their head above water.

Prices were lower across the board, with nearly all blue-chip stocks losing ground.

Markets Blue-chip stocks fell but most of the market rose.

Most of the blue-chip stocks are trading below the 200-day moving average, which is a strong support level.

Only 13 of the blue-chip stocks finished in positive territory.

"Once again, people were moving into blue-chip stocks for relative safety."

Despite all that, blue-chip stocks stood up reasonably well until May 17.

But blue-chip stocks headed higher with financial firms leading the way.

Only four blue-chip stocks ended the day in negative territory.

But the money was never invested in blue-chip stocks or bonds.

The index of 30 blue-chip stocks has been struggling to break even for the year.

The broad stock market was steady, but blue-chip stocks fell.

Blue-chip stocks gave back strong gains yesterday to end slightly higher.

On July 7, you answered a question about buying blue-chip stocks for children.

The most obvious answer is to limit investments to blue-chip stocks.

Markets Blue-chip stocks failed to reach a third consecutive record.

Markets Blue-chip stocks advanced, while the broader market was down.

Many of the closely watched blue-chip stocks maintained their recent strong form.

At least six blue-chip stocks were down more than 10 percent by mid-morning.

But the Dow, an average of 30 blue-chip stocks, quickly recovered.

It was the biggest decline since March 31, when blue-chip stocks finished 153 points lower.

Shares of small companies have started to fare worse than blue-chip stocks.