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Volatile market pushes mortgage interest rates even lower

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Mortgage interest rates just dropped to historically low levels. That has become the trend recently as market moves, and actions by the Federal Reserve, continue to not only keep rates steady and low, but push them even lower. Mortgage News Daily reported this …

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A Few Things

Hello, Friends. How are you? We had a full, emotional, and interesting week. There was a funeral yesterday — it was my first online funeral. We went through all of our old scrapbooks and photo albums, seeking out the photos of our friend Christopher Clark, and letters they exchanged when …

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Deep Dive: This unusual income fund has a dividend yield of 6.5% and has beaten the S&P 500

Investors usually must contend with a trade-off between income and growth. Not so with the Reaves Utility Income fund, which has a 6.48% dividend yield and performance that has beaten the S&P 500 Index SPX, +1.30% over the past 10 and 15 years. That’s unusual, given that the benchmark index …

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