Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - February 4, 2014) - North American indices have been witnessing huge selloffs during the past one month after recording strong gains during 2013, due to concerns of slowing Chinese economy, European deflation, currency troubles in emerging markets and reduced Federal Reserve bond-buying. The VIX index, a measure of stock market volatility, jumped 14.6% to its highest levels of 21.44, not seen since December 2012.

Ubika Research has shortlisted 12 low beta stocks across sectors which provide a safe investment during the declining market, reflected in their consistent history of earnings growth, attractive dividends payments and below market price/earnings ratios. The beta of these stocks is below 1 according to Bloomberg calculations. Moreover, the shortlisted stocks have recorded strong and consistent earnings growth during the past two years and are estimated to record strong earnings growth during 2014. Moreover, a majority of the stocks are currently trading at relatively low forward price-to-earnings (PE) multiples compared to the index and provide an attractive dividend yields. During the past three months, most of these stocks have accumulated gains with average daily traded volume in excess of 100,000 shares.

For investors looking to see our analyst's shortlisted 12 safe stocks for a bear market please visit the Smallcappower.com Daily Investment Idea: http://www.smallcappower.com/posts/article-investment-idea-of-the-day-4-2-2014.

Included in the list of nine smallcap stocks are: West Fraser Timber Co Ltd. (TSX: WFT), Toromont Industries Ltd. (TSX: TIH), and Canadian Western Bank (TSX: CWB).

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