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Posts Tagged ‘ Dividends ’

How to Avoid the Dividend Trap… and Find Stable, High-Yield Investments

Jul 8th, 2009 | By Louis Basenese | Category: Featured

Countless studies demonstrate that dividend-paying stocks outperform non-payers by a wide margin. From 1972 to 2006 dividend-paying stocks returned an average of 10% annually versus 4% for non-dividend payers, according to Ned Davis Research.



Futures Point Flat after Home Price Data

Jun 30th, 2009 | By Contrarian Profits | Category: Financial News, Stock Market Investing

U.S. stock futures pointed to a flat open on Tuesday after data showed April home prices in 20 U.S. cities declined, but less than expected.



How to Make 20 Times Your Money Buying the World’s Safest Stocks

Jun 26th, 2009 | By Jon Herring | Category: Featured, Stock Market Investing

The most fundamental tenet of investing is that risk and reward go hand in hand. The greater the potential reward, the greater the risk. The lower the risk, the lower the reward you can expect.



Gold Stocks in a Depression

Jun 8th, 2009 | By Jeff Clark | Category: Featured, Gold Market

What if deflation wins?   While we think the odds are strongly stacked against it, particularly given the government’s furious pace of money printing, the prudent investor understands – and respects – the time-tested adage, “Nothing is guaranteed.” So while our chips sit squarely on the spot marked “inflation,” what will happen to gold stocks if we’re wrong?



Buy Quality!

May 7th, 2009 | By Ted Peroulakis | Category: Featured, Stock Market Investing

I suggest you only purchase companies that have a history of consistently raising their dividends.  These companies will survive and thrive no matter what happens in the economy.



Why ‘Bailout Purgatory’ Is Bad for Everybody

May 5th, 2009 | By Contrarian Profits | Category: Notes From the Investment Underground

Bailout purgatory is bad for everybody, apart from the banks, their shareholders and their unsecured creditors. As Roubini points out, the government has been siphoning money into banks via capital injections, loan guarantees and financing with no strings attached.



Five Wall Street Whoppers And Why You Need To Know Them

Mar 19th, 2009 | By Keith Fitz-Gerald | Category: Top Story

If you’re like many investors, you are probably sitting on the sidelines right now, unsure of what to do. If you want to buy, you may be thinking “let’s wait a little longer.” If you want to sell, you might be concerned about “missing out.”



Saving Banks Accomplishes Nothing

Mar 11th, 2009 | By Andrew Gordon | Category: Financial News

How many times have you heard, “the economy won’t turn around until banks start lending?” It’s so damn obvious…



Dividend Drop-Off: When Cushions Turn to Rocks

Mar 11th, 2009 | By Richard Daughty | Category: Politics & Economics

I thought that my eyes were playing tricks on me, but it looked like the earnings of the S&P Industrials Index went down last week, plummeting to $65.86 from $85.90 the week before…



What to Do When You Miss Out on a Trade

Jun 3rd, 2008 | By Jeff Clark | Category: Stock Market Investing

I just can’t write about stocks today. I want to, but I can’t. My mind is on baseball. You see, I manage my 8-year-old son’s Little League team. And they had their first playoff game last Thursday.