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    These Overblown Worries Set Up This 10% Yields In 2024

    Assorted economy related newspaper headlines with coin jargetty Look, I’ll be honest: I’m bullish on our favorite income investments, high-yield closed-end funds (CEFs), as we head toward 2024. Fact is, these overlooked income stalwarts are still on sale after the 2022 pullback, with the ticker we’ll talk about below going for an absurd 17.2% below More

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    Dow Stocks To Trade In October

    AP Photo/Richard DrewAP For this month, the cycle/relative strength concept is applied. First, the Dow Jones 30 stocks are ranked from the best performer to the worst by calculating the expected return in that month. The top best traditional performers in the month were then screened for relative strength by a unique measure that sorts More

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    U.S. Spends $25 Million For Access To 150 Million Gallons Of Biofuels

    The USDA has announced the first round of grants meant to increase the availability of of ethanol … [+] and biodiesel derived from U.S. agricultural products.getty Earlier this week U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a round of awards that will increase consumer access to biofuels including ethanol and biodiesel. The USDA More

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    Here’s What To Watch In Gold This Summer

    In my last gold market update in April, I showed how gold was sitting just below a very important resistance zone between $2,000 and $2,100. I said that gold needed to clear that resistance zone in a convincing manner to signal that another leg of the uptrend was likely ahead. Alas, gold bumped its head More

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    This 11% Dividend Is Impossibly Cheap

    woman clipping couponsgetty Vanilla energy bulls stare at XLE. So basic. Meanwhile, we “second-level” contrarians consider NRGX as a high-yield play on higher oil prices. What’s the difference? Well, PIMCO Energy & Tactical Credit (NRGX) yields 6.1% while first-level favorite Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLE) yields 4%. So we bank 50% more dividend when More

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    Dividend Stocks Are On Sale: Are They Values, Or Just Cheap?

    Rat try to stop friend to trapped because cheese. Ideal for illustration about business concept and … [+] consulting or other.getty The best thing about a multi-year bear market? The bargains. Today we’ll talk dividend deals. Big payers. Stocks yielding up to 10.3% and trading for as little as three-times free cash flow (FCF). That’s More

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    Stocks This Week: Buy Owens Illinois And Terex

    AP Photo/Seth WenigCopyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The stock market may consolidate its gain this week, but the overall trend remains up. The following week is options expiration week, which has a bullish bias. Here is the performance of the US markets since the October low. Note that the equally-weighted and the More

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    Goldman Sachs And Morgan Stanley Both Miss Earnings Estimates As Mixed Banking Results Continue

    (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Getty Images Key Takeaways It’s been a mixed bag for Wall Street this earning season, with some banks beating estimates and some notching major misses Some themes across the board include a massive slowdown in investment banking revenues, as M&A and IPO activity plunged during a volatile year The net interest More

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    Stocks Hit By Valuation Compression In 2022

    Stock trader Peter Tuchman works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). (Photo by … [+] Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Getty Images The equity markets had a horrible 2022 with the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq down 8.8%, 19.4% and 33.1%, respectively. This isn’t surprising as investors faced increased interest rates, a potential recession More

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    Mortgage Demand Down Up To 88% From This Time Last Year

    Nov. 17. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Key Takeaways Mortgage refinance applications are down 88% since this time last year, with new mortgage applications also down 46% over the same period. It comes off the back of rapidly rising rates, which have made mortgages hundreds of dollars more expensive… More

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