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The Best Dividend Stocks Smart Investors Can Buy With Trade Uncertainty This High

The Trade Deal Soap Opera ContinuesSince the August trade deal swoon, stocks are up 10% with trade-sensitive names like Apple (AAPL) up three times that amount. Following the handshake “phase one” trade deal agreement in October (that avoided new tariffs) China and the US have been talking frequently and trying to hammer out a written […]

3 “Strong Buy” Dividend Stocks Yielding 5% — Or More

The S&P 500 stock index has famously averaged a return of just under 10% over the past near-century — a great rate in an economy where the average bank account is still paying just 0.05%!Of course, even 10% is just the average. Some stocks go up more than that, some go up less. Some years […]

3 Dividend Stocks to Buy for Under $10

“Cheap” stocks aren’t necessarily the best cheap stocks to buy. And dividend stocks, even those with a high payout, aren’t necessarily safe. A low share price attracts some investors. So does a high dividend. But both can actually be signs of danger.After all, a stock under $10 almost always has declined a long way to […]

Consider Purchasing Microsoft Stock While It Is Still a Buy

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock continues to flirt with record highs. Its recent victory in gaining a contract from the Department of Defense (DoD) seemed to confirm its strength in the cloud industry. This, in addition to other gains, have led to a long-term bull market in Microsoft stock.The bull case for MSFT stock remains to this […]

10 Monthly Dividend Stocks to Buy to Pay the Bills

I like making money in the stock market, but I love dividends. You see, the problem with capital gains is that to actually enjoy them, you have to sell your shares. The beauty of dividend stocks is that you get to enjoy the fruits of your investment without having to actually sell anything. Think of […]

Collect Income While Adobe Consolidates

This morning, we’re recommending a covered call on Adobe Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE). We’ve been managing a position in ADBE since our ADBE August 9th $302.50 Put Write expired in the money.After dropping to support at 2,960 last Tuesday, the S&P 500 has held firm. It didn’t move higher, but it also didn’t moved any lower.We […]

The Best Dividend Stocks To Buy With Recession Risk This High

Recession Risk Is The Highest In 10 Years BUT Still The Lower Probability OutcomeA lot of investors are understandably worried about a recession in 2020 or 2021. It’s true that recession risk, per models from the Cleveland and NY Fed, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Moody’s, Jeff Miller, and Toronto Dominion Bank are all showing the […]

3 Large-Cap Tech Stocks for Dividend Investors to Buy After Powell Update

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell spoke Friday morning in a highly anticipated speech in Jackson Hole. Powell might not have said exactly what investors and Wall Street would have hoped, but he did say the U.S. central bank was prepared to provide more stimulus, via rate cuts, if the global economic pullback negatively impacts the […]

5 Streaming Stocks to Buy for the TV Streaming Gold Rush

It’s August 2019, and we are on the eve of a streaming TV gold rush that will forever change the global entertainment landscape.To be sure, the linear to internet TV shift has been playing out for the past decade. But, from essentially 2010 to 2019, there have really only been three viable streaming TV services […]

7 Stocks the Insiders Are Buying on Sale

Part of these rules that the SEC has created over the years include measures that prevent insider buying from taking advantage of nonpublic information. This type of insider trading is illegal. Insiders are people that have access to confidential information about a company. Some of this information may move the price of the company’s stock. […]

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