Fund buys for a North American rebound

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FIDELITY GROWTH AMERICA FUND $11.98 (CWA Rating: Conservative) (Fidelity Investments Canada, 483 Bay St., Suite 200, Toronto, Ont. M5G 2N7. 1-800-263-4077; Web site: www.fidelity.ca., load fund — available from brokers) uses a broad “bottom-up” approach to identify undervalued companies using fundamentals, such as earnings, dividend yield, book value, cash flow and debt level. The $160.2-million Fidelity Growth America Fund’s top holdings, among the 122 stocks it holds, include Exxon Mobil, Wal-Mart, Apple, Nuance Communications, Chevron Corp., Qualcomm, Bristol Myers Squibb, Coca-Cola, 3M and Phillip Morris International. Fidelity Growth America Fund is broken down by economic segment as follows: 13.9% in Information Technologies, 13.3% in Health Care, 11.9% in Energy, 10.3% in Consumer Staples, 9.1% in Financials, 8.7% in Industrials, 7% in Consumer Discretionary, 3.9% in Utilities, 3.5% in Telecommunication Services and 2.5% in Metals & Minerals. The fund’s one-year loss, to January 31, 2009 (in Canadian dollars) was 34.6%, compared to a loss of 24.3% for the S&P 500 (in Canadian funds) over…