Two Harbors Investment Corp
NYSE: TWO
$11.54
+$0.14 (+1.2%)
Closing Price on November 5, 2024
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ThinkstockThe Wall Street firms that handle the bulk of retail accounts are always very careful about recommending stocks priced in the single digits. Typically they are fallen angels, or sometimes...
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Jon OggInvestors have become all too familiar with the increasingly difficult task of scouring the investment universe for income-generating securities. Bond investors have been forced farther and...
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ThinkstockAs a rule, Wall Street brokers and financial advisors typically try to steer their clients away from stocks that trade under $10, as well as avoid like the plague stocks that trade under...
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ThinkstockIt was no secret that Larry Summers, the former candidate to replace Ben Bernanke as the chairman of the Federal Reserve, was no big fan of the current easy money policies. The two...
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Jon OggThe analyst team at Sterne Agee has updated its book value estimates for the high-yield mortgage-backed securities (MBS) real estate investment trust (REIT) sector. The move is based on rising...
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ThinkstockThroughout May and June, we had been issuing warnings and highlighting research notes from Wall Street indicating that there was potentially a huge risk in the high-yield dividend mortgage...
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ThinkstockSterne Agee has downgraded many targets on its mortgage REIT sector. Investors can find extremely high-yield dividends here, often north of 10%, but the risk versus reward often can be too...
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ThinkstockOver 100 leading financial services companies participated in the third annual Deutsche Bank Global Financial Services Conference. After listening to their presentations, talking to...
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Jon OggThe recent rise in long-term interest rates is crushing the high dividend mortgage REIT sector, as investors are looking to pare down their exposure to riskier assets and assets that will be...
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Jon OggRising interest rates on 10-year Treasuries suddenly may start competing against the high-dividend and high-yield stock sectors. The real question is which sectors will hold up and which ones...
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Jon OggHigh yield investors have been chasing the attractive dividend payouts offered by the mortgage REIT sector for years and years now. Unlike the high payouts from telecom, tobacco, and utilities...
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ThinkstockEverybody in the business of writing, reporting or talking about stocks and the stock market has highlighted the spectacular run of the housing stocks since the March 2009 low. Every firm...
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U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning as traders and investors tried to sort out their reactions to the re-election of President Obama. The initial reaction is that the U.S. economy is headed...
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U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning as investors seemed to prefer a little risk trading on U.S. election day. Asian markets were cautious ahead of today’s elections, while in Europe some...
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We recently became worried about the future dividends of the high-yielding mortgage REIT sector due to QE3’s focus being on $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities. In fact, after our call of...
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