How high is high, when it comes to dividend yields? For investors who need income, standards have changed. Long gone are the days when you could enjoy a 5% yield on a tax-exempt bond with a high credit rating. All is not lost. Investors holding stocks can make use of …
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Now is the time to consider value stocks for your portfolio as the U.S. economy gathers strength and as promising coronavirus vaccines and treatments are deployed. John Buckingham, editor of The Prudent Speculator investing newsletter, has done for this column a special screen of stocks with value characteristics. That led …
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BP logos are seen at a BP petrol and diesel filling station southeast of London on June 15, 2020, following the announcement that the oil giant will take a hit of up to $ 17.5 billion (11.4 billion euros and 15.3 billion euros), due to the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic. …
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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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Shares of theme park operator Six Flags Entertainment Corp. slid 18% Thursday to put them on track for a seven-year low, after the company swung to a surprise fourth-quarter loss, offered downbeat guidance and cut its dividend. More than 7 million shares SIX, +2.32% had changed hands by early afternoon, …
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