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Short Sellers Maintain Assault Against High-Yield Dividend Stocks (MO, AEP, NLY, T, DUK, KMB, KMP, MRK, PG, RAI, VZ)

Short sellers have had their challenges due to rising share prices since the start of 2013. They have gone on to make some serious changes in the high dividend stocks ...
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AG Mortgage Filing Shows It Is Ready to Get Much Larger

AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc. (NYSE: MITT) could soon be much larger if its most recent shelf registration statement (S-3) with the Securities and Exchange Commission gets used to its ...
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MLP Fund Still Shows MLP Payouts On The Rise (AMJ, KYN, EPD, KMR)

JP Morgan Alerian MLP Index ETN (AMEX: AMJ) is one of the most liquid instruments out there in the world of MLP investing, but another competing interest is a closed-end ...
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Opportunity & Risk: Junk Bond Spreads Nearing 700 Basis Points (HYG, JNK, PHB, HYV, HIO, PHK, JPM, EPD)

While everyone remains focused on the jobs report and the European meltdown, investors are having a harder and harder time finding real investment returns.  Germany actually saw negative yields briefly ...
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MLP Investors Have to Weigh Risks vs. Rewards This Summer (EPD, KMP, PAA, OKS, ETP, EEP, AMJ, AMLP, KYN)

The world of master limited partnerships (MLPs) has brought great reward to investors in recent years. 24/7 Wall St. wants to know if the enthusiasm can stay in this sector ...
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Are Junk Bonds Being Hit Too Hard? (JNK, HYG, PHK, MSY, HIO, HYV)

Bonds of the Treasury variety may be the safe haven against a falling stock market.  They hardly pay anything in yield, but they haven't yet faced a meltdown. The woes ...
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Yum! Dividend Hike Poses A New Challenge To McDonald’s (YUM, MCD, EAT)

Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) has raised its dividend yet again.  Today's news of a 14% increase in the payout rate for the quarterly dividend comes to $0.285.  Based upon ...
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Secondary Offering & Dividend Fluctuations Underscore Mortgage-REITs (IVR, NLY, CIM, CMO, CYS)

Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. (NYSE: IVR) has two things to address today, a super-high dividend yield and a secondary offering.  This also spills over to the outlook for Annaly ...
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Nine High Dividends & Dividend Gainers in Services: Value and the Kitchen Sink (RRD, GPC, CCL, BLC, TWX, TWC, MHP, EAT, IPG)

The “services sector” is almost too broad to be counted when screens are conducted. Throwing in publishers, media, cable, travel, restaurants, auto-parts and advertising into a single screen feels like ...
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Beyond the Pharma Patent Cliff, Dividends Galore (LLY, BMY, MRK, PFE, ABT)

Many drug companies face a what is called a patent cliff ahead, where the Big Pharma players will have key drugs go off-patent and there will be new generic competition.  ...
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Screening the Highest Dividends in Defensive Stocks (MO, RAI, LO, KMB, LLY, HNZ, CAG, TAP, DPS, AWK)

We may have just witnessed an oversold bounce in the stock market, or we may be in for more days of recovery.  The markets are flirting with six weeks of ...
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Retail May Be The Next Major Dividend Growth Sector (LTD, WFM, KR, GPS, TIF, KSS, WMT, TGT, ANF)

The retail sector has historically not the place for income and dividend investors seeking high payouts.  The reason is simple: razor-thin margins.  Add in the notion that many new retailers ...
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Dividend Watch: The Government Pays You, Really (GOV)

It is time for The Daily Dividend, and we have one that every investor should care about.  There is a way to make money off of Uncle Sam and off ...
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Dividend Watch: Hudson City Bancorp (HCBK)

Today's "Daily Dividend Watch" is one with a bit more caution.  Hudson City Bancorp (NASDAQ: HCBK) is one of those regional banks which we recently noted that already had a high ...
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Daily Dividend: Revisiting High MLP Fund Payouts (AMLP, MLPN, SRV, AMJ, KYN, NTG)

Now that the nuclear woes in Japan have elevated interest in more traditional power sources and now that the 10-Year Treasury Note yield dropped from 3.55% early last week to ...
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