President Trump has set the stage for the end of the world's major countries taking advantage of unlimited largess and trade considerations from the United States, a practice that began after World War II and has been in place in some form or another ever since.
Typically, investors put a focus on high-yield securities if the goal is to live off from portfolio income streams. These high-yielding securities come from BDC, REIT, MLP, CEF and other value-oriented segments. The common drawback of them is the lack of meaningful income growth and tightly correlated exposures.
Earnings season saw strong reports from Microsoft, Apple, Meta, and Amazon, boosting the S&P 500 by 2.75% and the Nasdaq by 2.82%. The Dividend Harvesting Portfolio gained 1.98% this week, with a total return of 23.42% and forward dividend income reaching $2,195.04. Added to positions in Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, and BP, focusing on undervalued stocks with strong dividend yields and growth ...
British American Tobacco (BTI -0.27%) is a difficult investment to understand. It isn't that the company's operations are complex, per se, but that the business today has two different outlooks based on the time period over which you want to own it.
It's been one month since President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" announcement, which featured a wave of tariff policies targeting just about every country around the world. During this time period, the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, and Dow Jones Industrial Average each plummeted by as much as 11%.
This article is part of our monthly series where we highlight five large-cap, relatively safe, dividend-paying companies offering significant discounts to their historical norms. We go over our filtering process to select just five conservative DGI stocks from more than 7,500 companies that are traded on U.S. exchanges, including OTC networks. In addition to the primary list that yields about 3...
I'm going on a 2-week vacation with my family for my sister's wedding, so I've prepared a comprehensive article with three types of dividend aristocrat recommendations for whateveriscomingnext. Low-volatility aristocrats offer a 3.4% yield, a 46% downside capture ratio, and 52% less volatility than the S&P, making them ideal for addressing recession concerns while still providing a 23% return. ...
The stock market has switched gears in 2025. Growth stocks that were crushing it in 2023 and 2024 have gone south, while steady value stocks with dividend payments have outperformed the broad market indices.
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