If you’re anything like the average dividend investor, you want one thing: safe, reliable income. Sure, a large payout is nice, but at what cost? A high yield means nothing if it’s here today, gone tomorrow. Read More

Most of the time, there’s a trade-off between yields and capital gains. Want a stock that could rapidly rise? You’ll have to give up a high dividend yield. Want a stock that pays double-digit income? The share price is unlikely to rise too… Read More

When searching for the best income stocks on the planet, it’s hard to beat master limited partnerships, which often go by the acronym MLPs. These partnerships exist to pass earnings to their shareholders. A variation on… Read More

Bill Gross — perhaps the most famous and successful bond investor in history — had a recent quote that made me chuckle. Talking to The New York Times about interest rates, Gross said, “Americans have assumed the roller coaster goes one… Read More

Income investors looking to cash in on rising oil and natural gas prices may be hard pressed to find traditional companies that pay a hefty yield. Exxon (NYSE: XOM), for example, yields 2.4% and Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK), the largest producer of natural… Read More

Could Thomas Hoenig have a real impact on your portfolio? You bet he could. He only has one voice — but it’s a highly influential one. In fact, the last time he had spoke in public on April 7th, the Dow backpedaled 70 points… Read More

The financial crisis interrupted an unmistakable trend. Worldwide demand for oil, which had been sharply on the rise in the past decade as a result of ever-increasing demand in China and India, plummeted in the past year. While worldwide oil consumption rose from 64.8… Read More

In 2003, former President Bush signed into law the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act. One major provision of this law was to reduce the tax rates on certain dividends from nearly 40% for the highest income earners down to 15%. The… Read More

I know what you’re thinking… But this isn’t another article predicting which parts of the healthcare sector will be the most barren (or fertile) once the reform bill shakes out. There are plenty out there already — and each of our StreetAuthority editors has already chimed in with a few… Read More

Large telecom providers have become some of the market’s strongest dividend-paying companies. Although they pay strong yields, most of the big U.S. telecoms don’t offer much in the way of growth. The problem is that fixed-line usage is slowly dying as more customers drop their wired phones… Read More