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Stocks you can buy and hold through the market's chaos: Amazon, PepsiCo, and British American Tobacco

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Amazon may stumble, but tariffs won't topple America 's de facto e-commerce leader.

PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) is a recession-resistant blue chip stock to buy and hold forever.

British American Tobacco ( NYSE : BTI ) yields 7.4% at its current share price.

The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now and Amazon wasn’t one of them.

The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years .

Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004 ... if you invested $ 1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $ 495,226 !.

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