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It’s the Daily Dividend at 11:00 AM.  We often look for value, growth, and dividends in financial stocks.  Banks have been elusive on the dividend front until just the last couple of days,...
It’s time for “The Daily Dividend” at 11:00 AM and today’s coverage is a bit different.  War is an awful thing to cover, particularly when you are talking about investing in defense...
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) is announcing something that we are a bit surprised about this morning.  It is not quite a shell game, but it is a strategy that rarely works well for investors.  The...
Friday was D-Day at the Federal Reserve.  D-Day is Dividend Day where the government got tell which of the bailed out financial companies could begin rewarding shareholders again via higher...
The economy and investment categories may both be normalizing again, but dividend investors will get to start looking at banks again.  Today was D-Day for Dividend Day as the Federal Reserve is...
We have some food for thought in today’s “The Daily Dividend” for investors.  This morning brought news that Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) was initiating a $0.06 per share per quarter...
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is finally declaring its first dividend ever.  Unfortunately, this is what a realist would call a very underwhelming payout.  The company approved a quarterly...
Defensive stocks are supposed to offer you some safety in times of uncertainty.  High-yield stock dividends are also supposed to offer you a safer harbor in choppy markets as well.  In today’s...
Now that the nuclear woes in Japan have elevated interest in more traditional power sources and now that the 10-Year Treasury Note yield dropped from 3.55% early last week to about 3.25%, we wanted...
We have recently featured a whole slew of high-yield dividends in the banking sector ahead of the upcoming review that will determine which of the TARP recipient banks will get to begin raising their...
Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) had a business update this morning that at least showed a reaffirmed guidance.  Many analysts will be focusing on the highlights for the semiconductor segment, but we are...
24/7 Wall Street is bringing news and analysis in dividends and dividend trends for income oriented investors each day at 11:00 AM EST.  We are now less than two weeks away from getting to see which...
Cypress Sharpridge Investments, Inc. (NYSE: CYS) is one REIT that many investors are not aware of.  With the dividend yield that it is sporting and which it has reconfirmed today, that may be...
It was rather surprising when we saw that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A, BRK-B) had suddenly sold all of the Iron Mountain Inc. (NYSE: IRM) holdings back in mid-November. ...
Investors love dividends and other methods companies use to return capital to shareholders.  Still, dividends are the easiest for shareholders to gauge because it translates to direct capital...