Rock-bottom Treasury yields had many income investors turning to dividend-paying stocks over the past few years.
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August 20 - News
In May, I announced my intention to create a portfolio that embodied life's basic needs.
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August 20 - News
Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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August 16 - News
Dividend investors would be wise to focus not just on a stock's current yield but also on the long-term growth potential of its dividends.
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August 13 - News
Since the beginning of July, The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) has consistently risenon the market.
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August 12 - News
Despite the eye-popping returns, Buffett uses relatively simple criteria to base his investment decisions.
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August 12 - Hedge Funds
When it comes to true happiness, at home, at work -- and, I'd add, in our investment portfolios -- meaning actually overrules money. We investors should ponder this concept.
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August 12 - News
Only behind Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) and well above Unilever plc (ADR) (NYSE:UL) in my performance chart, The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) is among the best performing...
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August 7 - News
Nearly three months ago I announced my intention to create a portfolio that embodied life's basic needs.
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August 7 - News
2013 is turning out to be a stellar year for Mergers and Acquisitions. There have been a number of M&A deals in healthcare and technology sectors.
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August 6 - News
Yacktman Asset Management's suite of funds manages some $20 billion, and per its recent 13F filing with the SEC, which reveals the funds' public equity holdings, it's making a...
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August 5 - Hedge Funds
The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) is going through some changes.
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August 2 - News
It might be about time to gear up for a short -- or at least time to take some profits off the table.
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August 2 - News
Maybe we should have guessed it from the Energizer Bunny's pink fur, but battery maker Energizer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:ENR) is about to get more in touch with its feminine side...
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August 2 - News
Long-term income investors shouldn't be traders.
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August 1 - News
The potential for natural gas vehicles has long been simmering just below the surface.
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August 1 - News
The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG)'s recent quarterly results were discouraging, with the company falling short on both sales and margin numbers.
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July 31 - News
The U.S. has imported some $167 billion worth of goods from China so far this year, compared with exporting just $46 billion worth in return.
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July 31 - News
Historically, companies operating in the household and personal product industry have consistently generated double digit returns.
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July 30 - News
The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) is a leading consumer product company.
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July 29 - News
Questioning certain companies in today’s stock market is almost unheard of.
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July 29 - News
We often take sleep, the number of hours we get to sleep, or the quality of sleep we get, for granted.
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July 29 - News
How would the idea of going on an adventure without any safety equipment whatsoever sound to you? Many would call it completely absurd.
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July 26 - News
Nine weeks ago, I outlined my plans to create a portfolio of 10 companies that all have one thing in common: They provide a basic need or deliver life's necessities.
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July 23 - News
It's not just Kate Middleton and Prince William having a baby these days. There are a lot of new parents and parents-to-be out there.
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July 22 - News
Sometimes finding a winning investment is less about discovering the next big thing, and more about finding a good value in an already strong company.
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July 22 - News
One of the best strategies for part-time investors is to track successful hedge fund managers' holdings and pick which stocks look the most promising.
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July 19 - News
When companies are about to report earnings, investors would do well to look at the prior earnings report to try and find trends that may continue over the next few quarters.
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July 19 - News
We remain in the very early innings of a reversal in the secular bear market in stocks and the secular bull market in bonds.
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July 19 - News
Kimberly Clark Corp (NYSE:KMB) will release its quarterly report next Monday, and early expectations are for the consumer-products giant to produce reasonable growth.
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July 18 - News
One of legendary investor Peter Lynch's favorite bits of advice for individual investors trying to figure out the stock market on their own was to buy what you know.
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July 18 - News
Conglomerates offer a tremendous amount of diversification for investors, while allowing you to avoid the over-diversification associated with index funds, and the management ...
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July 17 - News
Based upon my experience, I chose a few criteria that I consider important when selecting dividend-growth stocks that keep up with inflation over the long term (and don't keep...
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July 16 - News
Unilever plc (ADR) (NYSE:UL) is focused on expansion in emerging markets to capitalize on rapid growth.
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July 16 - News
For the past several years, it has been hard to avoid the couponing trend.
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July 15 - News
Paula Deen has seen her future earnings prospects dim after her admission of using a racial slur. She lost her show.
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July 15 - News
Don’t distract me from my mission. When I enter a department store, flashy displays of full price items confront me head-on. They battle for my attention.
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July 11 - News
If you use a stock screener to find dividend stocks, you may be missing out on companies which routinely pay special dividends.
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July 11 - News
Even if you’re bullish on the market, downside risks exist.
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July 10 - News
At the end of June, several independent directors of Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
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July 10 - News
Due to a plethora of reasons, Indian currency has depreciated by nearly 20% against the U.S Dollar over the last year.
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July 10 - News
On a slow day in terms of economic reports, investors have certainly received a good bit of news from individual companies to keep themselves busy today.
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July 9 - News
The broader indices have gone through some choppy seas lately.
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July 9 - News
Over the next few weeks I'll be taking an in-depth look at each one of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI)'s nine dividend aristocrats.
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July 8 - News
Dividend stocks outperform non-dividend-paying stocks over the long run .
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July 8 - News
This morning the Department of Labor released June's jobs report, which indicated that 195,000 new jobs had been created in the month.
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July 5 - News
Investors in Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG) have had a pretty good time of it over the last year with a near 50% gain as I write however, the recent results were somewhat disappointing...
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July 5 - News
Today, July 4th, represents our Independence Day as a nation.
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July 5 - News
The bond market hasn’t been the greatest place to be for the average investor.
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July 5 - News
In this article, I will talk about three of the most compelling opportunities on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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July 5 - News
