The Best Fixed-Rate Bonds to Buy Now
Term preferred stocks and baby bonds offer some of the best fixed-rate bonds to buy on today's market. And right now, four of them stand out.
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Finding Good Stocks for Long-Term Investment Stability
Discovering good stocks for long-term investment success will allow you to feel confident in the stock and will lead to greater wealth. These are some historically proven investment strategies.
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We Have Transitory Inflation but Higher Prices are Here to Stay
The Fed is calling it transitory inflation. But what does that really mean? Here's an explanation - plus how it could affect your portfolio.
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The (Very) Long-Term Stock Market Outlook Looks Bright
After a brief downturn, the stock market appears poised to make another multi-year run to new heights.
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Four Stock Indexes at New Highs: What Should You Do?
When stock markets closed on November 21, you may not have felt the ground quake, but the news was fairly earth-shaking. That’s the day the S&P 500, the Dow, the Nasdaq and the Russell 2000 all closed at all-time record highs. It’s also first...
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Taking Charge of Your Retirement
If you don’t have a penurious Yankee working hard to save you 3% on your meal tax (and everything else you spend money on), you’d better be prepared (or preparing) to save and grow money on your own. That nest egg isn’t going hatch...
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Buy: (UBT), (TLT) and (TLH)
These bond ETFs offer diversification and steady cash flow.
ProShares Ultra 20+ Year Treasury (UBT), iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT), and iShares 10-20 Year Treasury Bond (TLH)From The Aden Forecast
The major upchannel remains in force with the bond price above its 65-week moving far,...
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Vanguard GNMA (VFIIX)
This fund of intermediate government bonds is rated four stars by Morningstar.
Vanguard GNMA (VFIIX) from The No-Load Fund Investor
GNMA funds with consistent records of good performance are excellent substitutes now for U.S. Treasuries. Most mortgage-backed securities, a category that includes GNMAs, FNMAs and Macs...
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Five Reliable Dividend Growers that Yield More than the U.S. Treasury
Thanks to the Fed, U.S. Treasury bonds only yield 2% right now. Here are five reliable dividend growers that offer much better yields.
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What’s Worth More: Safety or Profit?
Would you lend a friend $100 if he promised to pay you back $99 within a year?
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Analysis: T. Rowe Price Tax Free High Yield (PRFHX) and Vanguard High Yield Tax Exempt (VWAHX)
T. Rowe Price Tax Free High Yield (PRFHX) and Vanguard High Yield Tax Exempt (VWAHX)
from The No-Load Fund Investor
Even though rates on high-quality debt are near historic lows, we think the risk of a big increase is low. That’s because rates on many government...
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Phillips 66 (PSX) and iShares JPMorgan Emerging Market Bond ETF (EMB)
The first recommendation pays a 2.6% dividend, paid quarterly, and the ETF has a current dividend yield of 4.34%, paid monthly.
Phillips 66 (PSX) and iShares JPMorgan Emerging Market Bond ETF (EMB)
from the Complete Investor
When we first recommended Phillips 66 (PSX), a ConocoPhillips spinoff, yield...
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iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate Fund (IYR)
With the housing market continuing to improve, investors looking for an easy way to diversify their real estate holdings might further investigate this Real Estate Investment Trust ETF. It currently pays a 3.68% dividend yield, paid quarterly.
iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate Fund Leeb...
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Nine of the Lowest Fee ETFs
If you don’t want to or don’t have time to buy individual stocks yourself, there are hundreds low-fees ETFs.
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Money Wants to Reproduce
Money is continuing to flow rapidly into equities, and the best thing you can do is put some money into a boat.
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Templeton Emerging Markets Income Fund (TEI)
Today we have a unique 6%-yielding closed-end fund from Leeb’s Income
Performance Letter.
“A special place among our recommendations belongs to Templeton Emerging
Markets Income Fund (TEI, NYSE). First, this is the only closed-end fund we
currently recommend. Second, it focuses on a unique area: emerging market note...
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Taking Charge of Your Retirement
The reality today is that you are being forced to take more and more responsibility for your own investing and retirement planning.
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A Fast-Growing Emerging Markets<br /> Airline Stock
The market we have right now is the strongest in years, and that’s what we need for the next star to emerge.
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Have Interest Rates Finally Bottomed?
Eventually, when the 32-year downtrend in interest rates ends bond investors will see their principal evaporate.
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3 Factors for Evaluating Dividend-Paying Stocks
Dividend-paying stocks have been growing in popularity for years now, as legions of retirees are forced to look beyond low-yielding government bonds to maintain their income. So in this latest installment in our Dick Davis Digest contributor interview series, I talked to Dividend Editor...
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