In the past few years, a strange new “defensive” asset has appeared in the market.

Investors use the “defensive” label to describe businesses that enjoy steady demand for their products – like food, cigarettes and electric utilities.

After the 2001 anthrax attacks on government and media figures, no one wanted to take chances. In the worst biological attack in U.S. history, five people died and another 17 were infected. But what of future potential victims who don’t have such diligent facilities managers at their places of work and do come in contact with anthrax spores? TFN eNews reader and Hot Stock Confidential member John H. turned me on to a tiny outfit that addresses this deadly aspect of anthrax exposure.