Dividend Investing Weekly Newsletters
Central Bank Stimulus a Green Light for Yield Investors
What a dramatic change of events for the equity markets and investor sentiment in the past week. European Central Bank President Mario Draghi talked up the expectation that further fiscal stimulus measures are warranted, given the snail’s pace of the region’s economic recovery. Japanese equities spiked higher after trade data fell well short of forecasts, […]
Looking for Yield that Big Money Wants to Own
A lot goes into individual stock selection when hunting for attractive yields. We want to make sure that any yield north of 5% is not being manufactured from smoke and mirrors, but rather stems from earned income from the underlying business that supports that particular payout. Today, with T-bills yielding zero percent, the 10-year Treasury […]
Fed’s Message on Rates: Lower for Longer
Call it a green light, an all-clear sign or just a rainbow at the end of a storm, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes released Oct. 8 put to rest the debate about what the Fed’s position is on the prospect of rising interest rates. The Fed officials are worried about inflation running below […]
Seeing Ballast Income in the Midst of Market Storms
When market volatility rules the investing landscape for weeks at a time, taking the time to screen for companies that are impervious to the triple-digit swings and the downward bias is an enormously useful exercise. While the Dow has retreated by 13%, the S&P by 12% and the Nasdaq by 18%, with numerous subsectors of […]
Fed Provides a Fresh Appetite for Yield
At the most recent Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, the Fed announced that it would keep its target band for the Fed funds rate at 0.00-0.25%. In its policy statement, the Committee said that “recent global economic and financial developments may restrain economic activity somewhat and are likely to put further downward pressure on […]
A No Vote by the Fed is a Thumbs Up for High Yield
All the buildup. All the angst. Fed Chair Janet Yellen not talking publicly for the past 65 days. All the speculation. All the over-hyped rhetoric about how the financial world would stop spinning on its axis if a minuscule move of a quarter-point of one percent were to occur. And now that the curtain has […]
A Preferred Source of Yield
One of the hottest themes for big-cap money managers coming out of the Great Recession was taking a stake in high-yielding preferred stocks of companies backed by the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds. It seemed the government’s promise to “do whatever it takes” to breathe life back into the banking system had attracted fresh […]
A Sweet Spot from Across the Pond
In the midst of all the hand-wringing associated with the U.S. Federal Reserve contemplating the raising of short-term rates by a quarter point from zero, investors are rightfully looking elsewhere for opportunities that offer exponential returns from special situations that aren’t getting front page attention from financial reporting outlets. Among those enormously enticing themes that […]
Oil… The Global Currency of Choice
Recent calls by the Chinese government and other nations for a single global currency send shivers down the spines of dollar bulls at futures exchanges in New York and Chicago. The greenback has always been considered the world’s reserve currency, namely because the U.S. economy is so much larger than any other economy. Japan’s economy […]
Admire the Beauty of a Well-Timed Covered Call Program
One of the most versatile tools to use to generate income is through covered call writing, or the selling of covered calls on existing positions. In this volatile market, most of what you hear about options is from people buying puts and calls on very short-term directional trades. Such trading of options is full of […]
