Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) is in the crazy world of mortgage-backed securities real estate investment trusts. These MBS REITs can be incredibly volatile, and they generally come with massive dividend…
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockInvestors have been told over and over to love dividends, as they provide income and stability to a portfolio. While those themes are often true, there can be a dark side to…
We have seen the short interest reports for the October 15 settlement date. It turns out that short sellers have been getting out of the way of the bull market after previously…
ThinkstockThis year has been a stellar one for stocks, with the S&P 500 Index up more than 22% and with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up more than 18% in 2013. The…
ThinkstockShort sellers have increased their bets against the stable high-dividend stocks that are in most Americans’ retirement accounts and mutual funds. The end-of-September short interest saw year highs in a few cases.…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsOne of the reasons that investors look for stocks that may be added to the S&P 500 is that those that are added are immediately bought by portfolio…
ThinkstockShort sellers have increased their bets against the stable high-dividend stocks that are in most Americans’ retirement accounts and mutual funds. In fact, the mid-September short interest saw year highs in many…
courtesy U.S. Federal Reserve24/7 Wall St. has been surprised by the FOMC with the decision not to begin tapering its $85 billion per month in bond buying. The markets were surprised too,…
The analyst team at Sterne Agee has updated its book value estimates for the high-yield mortgage-backed securities (MBS) real estate investment trust (REIT) sector. The move is based on rising interest rates…
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve issued some updates to its balance sheet and payments data on Friday, and the long and short of the matter is that you are going to see why the…
Jon OggShort sellers are trying to decide what to do when it comes to how evaluate the high-yield dividend and defensive stocks. The latest short interest changes as of July 31 are compared…
ThinkstockOne of the big reasons that investors look for stocks that may be added to the S&P 500 is that the stocks that make the cut immediately become targeted by portfolio managers…
ThinkstockShort sellers are continuing to keep their bets against many of the top defensive high-yield dividend stocks. Increased volatility in June and rising interest rates are obviously making short sellers get aggressive…
ThinkstockThroughout May and June, we had been issuing warnings and highlighting research notes from Wall Street indicating that there was potentially a huge risk in the high-yield dividend mortgage real estate investment…
Short sellers are continuing to keep their bets against many of the top defensive high-yield dividend stocks. Increased volatility in June and rising interest rates are obviously making short sellers get aggressive…
