The Fed has already moved, but dividend stocks haven't caught up yet. Five names stand to collect the biggest gains when that gap finally closes, and the one leading the list is…
The defensive utility trade is breaking. With the 10-year Treasury yield at 4.45% and near the 91.1 percentile of its trailing 12-month range, the “bond proxy” argument that long anchored retirement portfolios…
The Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLU) has quietly become one of the more interesting trades in the market because it sits at the intersection of two crosscurrents. Hyperscaler power demand has…
Generating $5,000 per month in passive income works out to $60,000 annually, a level many retirees target to cover core expenses without relying heavily on Social Security or selling assets during market…
Wedbush’s Dan Ives went on The Pomp Podcast with Anthony Pompliano and laid out a thesis that should reframe how you think about every AI position in your portfolio. His line: “This…
Investors love dividend stocks because they provide dependable passive income streams and an excellent opportunity for solid total return. Total return includes interest, capital gains, dividends, and distributions realized over time. In…
When a sitting administration’s top science advisor invokes Eisenhower’s 1953 Atoms for Peace speech to frame a present-day policy move, investors should pay attention. That is exactly what happened at the Operation…
I keep clicking buy on NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE | NEE Price Prediction), and my brokerage statements prove it. One housekeeping note before the case: the dividend pays on a quarterly schedule, and…
Vandita Jadeja NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE | NEE Price Prediction) announced on May 18, 2026 an all-stock agreement to acquire Dominion Energy (NYSE:D) for $67 billion, a figure the press release frames as the largest…
Wages fluctuate. Bonuses get cut. Side hustles burn out. Dividend income, by contrast, lands in a brokerage account on a schedule the holder did not negotiate and a boss cannot revoke. For…
NextEra Energy’s (NYSE: NEE | NEE Price Prediction) agreement to acquire Dominion Energy (NYSE: D) in a roughly $67 billion all-stock deal has investors hunting for the next big utility consolidation targets.…
The Kiplinger Letter’s argument is uncomfortable for anyone overweight artificial intelligence: almost none of the GDP growth Washington has been celebrating actually came from AI. The mechanics are counterintuitive. When hyperscalers buy…
The bearish case on rate-sensitive regulated utilities at current levels is building, and NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE | NEE Price Prediction) at $95.68 is the cleanest example of what Kevin Warsh’s commitment to…
For most of its life, the Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLU) was the financial equivalent of a thermostat. You set it, you forgot it, and it quietly produced a check every…
Morningstar’s Investing Insights podcast recently spotlighted four S&P 500 stocks that have already declared dividend increases of 10% or more, effectively locking in their place on next year’s Dividend Growers screen, which…
