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An Investment That Protects Against Stock Market Crashes…With A 14% Yield!
The stock market’s a mess, right? Recession fears, uncertainty with tariffs, political conflicts with our NATO allies. There is so much for everyone to worry about RIGHT NOW. I am worried about a stock market crash. Good news, the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF (ticker: TLTW) will help you sleep better at […]

How Dividend Dates Work, And When You Actually Get Paid
Among the subscribers to my Dividend Hunter, there is a wide range of stock market investing experience. From the emails I receive, I know that it is easy for both beginners and more experienced investors to have trouble keeping up with how companies announce dividends and when you’ll see the cash in your brokerage account. […]

This Dividend Is Climbing To The MOON!
I love Home Depot. It’s one of my favorite dividend stocks. They’ve paid dividends for 30 years! Those payments have increased every year except during the 2007 financial crash. I don’t mind…not many companies increased their dividends back then! Home Depot is at it again with another dividend increase. Now Home Depot is paying $2.30 […]

Contrarian Signal Tells Us These 7% Dividends Are Good Buys
Let me say right now that, like most people, I have no idea where the trade tensions we’re living through will end up. But here’s something I will say: Whenever I have any doubt about the future, I look to the 10-year Treasury rate—and I recommend you do the same. And the 10-year rate—pacesetter for rates on […]

Tech Stocks With A Nearly 10% Yield? Tell Me More!
Tech is all over the news. AI, self-driving cars, space exploration, and crypto seem to be the only thing people are talking about! It’s the same tech companies over and over again Nvidia, Tesla, Meta, Google, Amazon… the list goes on! You know the biggest issue I have with tech stocks? They don’t pay dividends. […]

Three Top-Yielding Crypto ETFs You Can’t Ignore
The SEC approved spot bitcoin ETFs just over a year ago, in January 2024. Eleven new Bitcoin ETFs received approval at that time. Over the course of 2024, fund sponsors launched ETFs that make short options trades to generate income, with Bitcoin ETFs or futures as the underlying assets. Investors and traders have long used […]

Walmart Just Did Something Only A Dozen Others In Its Sector Have Done
Key Points The retail giant released mixed earnings results for the fourth quarter. Walmart (NYSE:WMT) stock was trending lower on Thursday after the retailer posted fourth quarter earnings that met expectations. However, investors were disappointed with the retail giant’s outlook for the current fiscal year. The stock price was down about 6.5% on Thursday, trading at […]

These 6.8% Dividends Are Quietly Minting Millionaires
If you’re like most income investors, you’re on the hunt for stocks and funds that can stand up to a storm these days. So that’s what I’m going to give you below—in the form of three “all-weather” closed-end funds (CEFs) kicking out an outsized 6.8% average yield. They’ve stood firm through every headwind imaginable—wars, pandemics, inflation, you […]

Is It Wise To Invest In More Shares When A Stock Reduces Its Dividend?
Recently, Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp. (OCSL), a business development company (BDC), cut its quarterly dividend by 27%. Usually, a large dividend reduction indicates that you should sell the stock if you own it. In the case of OCSL, however, it’s the opposite. The changes made by the company will make OCSL a better high-yield investment […]

This “Tariff-Proof” 10.4% Dividend Will Shine In 2025
Contrarians that we are, we know when we hear things that sound like “common wisdom,” we need to look just a little bit deeper. Today, that’s what we’re going to do, with a common refrain we’re hearing a lot—that tariffs will lead to a spike in interest rates. Then we’ll look at a bond play that’s set to benefit […]