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How To Retire On Dividends In 2023
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How to Set Up a ‘Bond Ladder’ That Can Yield 4% to 5%
Bond ladders can be rickety at times. But they may provide protection against volatile interest rates and offer ways to capture higher yields as they hit the market. The concept is straightforward: As...
Build a Bond ETF Ladder to Capture Yields of 4% to 5%
Bond ladders can be rickety at times. But they may provide protection against volatile interest rates and offer ways to capture higher yields as they hit the market. The concept is straightforward: As...
Preferred Dividends Are Part Stock, Part Bond. How They Can Provide Income.
We won’t know for a while if the recent rally in bonds has legs. Yields tumbled Thursday, pushing up prices, after a relatively tame inflation reading, as investors bet that the Federal Reserve will e...
5 Dividend Stocks to Beat Inflation and Rising Interest Rates
Dividend stocks are facing stiffer competition, thanks to a big spike in bond yields. A risk-free 10-Year Treasury note was recently yielding 3.7%, up from 1.63% at the start of 2021. That’s well abov...
After a Brutal Bond Selloff, Opportunities Have Emerged for Income Investors
For many years, dividend stocks were one of the few places where investors could find decent yields in a world of ultralow rates. A 10-year Treasury bond was dealing out an emaciated 1.3% a year ago, ...
A China-Taiwan War Is Bullish For This Dividend Stock
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Ford and GM Diverge on Dividend Policies. Here’s Why and What It Means.
Ford Motor and General Motors are in the same business and are based in the same state. But they couldn’t be more different when it comes to their dividend policies. Ford (ticker: F) reinstated its di...
Debt and Dividends Can Co-Exist. Here Are 5 Stocks That Shouldn’t Wilt.
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Do NOT Buy Stocks Now
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Here Are 6 Stocks That Pay a Lot in Dividends and Have Solid Yields. And Microsoft and Apple.
PepsiCo total quarterly dividend payout and yield make for an intriguing combination. Here, a Pepsi display at a shop in Grovetown, Ga., earlier this year. Billy Blume/Dreamstime.com Text size Sometim...
A 3-Click “Mini-Portfolio” Yielding 10.6%, Trading At A Massive Discount
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Dumping Guns, Coffee And Insurance Adjusters, Keeping Ketchup And Meat In A Dividend Portfolio
Stocks continued to slip last week, with big retailers like Target TGT and Walmart WMT hammered more than 20% lower on lackluster quarterly results. Consumer stocks of all stripes were thrashed as a g...
These 8%+ Dividends Keep Your Income Steady In A Crash
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Yes, You Can Get Dividend Yields Around 5%. Here’s How.
If a stock’s yield is around 5%, it could foreshadow a dividend cut or worse. A yield that high, however, doesn’t have to spell doom. Several investors Barron’s spoke to say they can find good opportu...
Due diligence Can Lead Investors to Some Solid Companies With Yields of about 5%.
If a stock’s yield is around 5%, it could foreshadow a dividend cut or worse. A yield that high, however, doesn’t have to spell doom. Several investors Barron’s spoke to say they can find good opportu...
This Fund Offers Downside Protection And A 7.8% Payout
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How This Dividend Strategy Can Save You In A Market Storm
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How To Beat Fear And Bank 7%+ Dividends From Blue Chip Stocks
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Look to the Energy Patch for a Dividend Bonanza. Devon Energy and Pioneer Natural Resources Look Good.
What was already going to be a challenging year for investors was further disrupted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But in a market that has been lacking in certainty, income investors may want to ta...
Inflation Is Red Hot. How to Protect Your Portfolio and Grow Income.
Income investors—especially those who depend on fixed coupons from bonds—face a hit to their purchasing power as inflation stands above 7%. One strategy to hedge against such big price increases, howe...
This 8% Dividend Shakes Off Volatility, Pays You Every Month
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This Is a Good Time to Buy Short-Term Bonds
Until recently, short-term bonds were a yield wasteland: A two-year Treasury note yielded 0.21% a year ago and just 1% in January. Today, the yield is over 3.8% and could soon touch 4%, thanks in good...