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Avoid These Turkeys In Your Stock Portfolio
Turkey is the traditional Thanksgiving fare, and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like to sit down to a full-spread Turkey dinner on the holiday. (OK, my sister the vegetarian is an exception. She just wants her dinner to taste like turkey.) However, what we don’t want is turkeys in our stock portfolio. In the […]
Sell These 3 High-Yield Dividend Stocks About To Cut Their Dividends
There is a tremendous appeal to owning shares of high-yield stocks. In a world where you are lucky if a bank account pays 2%, income stocks that pay 8%, 9% or even 11% can be very attractive. However, high yield stocks are not a bank account or government bond. Dividend cuts happen and when they […]
Sell These Big 12%+ Yield Traps Now
There are a growing number of stocks and funds yielding over 12%, luring in unsuspecting investors. Earning $12 in income for every $100 invested sounds great – unfortunately, it’s often too good to be true. Generally, stocks have outsized yields when the market thinks that their income source is threatened. When that happens, a dividend […]
A Timely Strategy For Boosting Your Portfolio’s Yield
Short-term interest rates are stuck near zero for the foreseeable future. Ben Bernanke said as much when he announced a third round of quantitative easing in September. In his September speech, the Fed Chairman said the fed funds rate would stay between 0% and 0.25% at least through 2015. This is bad news for income […]
