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Posted by admin | Posted on 18-05-2012
Category : Business, Stocks
Tags: dividend, fund, industry, sector, spdr, spy, stocks, yield
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (TheStreet) — According to the StateStreet Global Advisors Web site the S&P 500 SPDR has a trailing yield of 1.98%. Reports on CNBC have it up near 2.25%. Either figure is greater than the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury, which yields 1.77%. It is rare when stocks yield more than the 10-year Treasury and no doubt increases the spotlight on dividend paying stocks.
Dividend-based ETFs first came on the scene in 2003 with the iShares DJ Dividend Select ETF and the SPDR S&P Dividend ETF and started to proliferate when fund provider WisdomTree created an entire product line devoted to dividend investing. Back then, I wrote articles on just about all of the dividend ETFs as they came out and offered this same caution on just about all of them: if anything serious were to happen to the financial sector then the dividend funds would get hit very hard as most of them are very heavily weighted in that sector. …
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See the original post here: Want Dividends? Try Individual Stocks Instead of ETFs
Posted by admin | Posted on 28-04-2012
Category : Stocks
Tags: articles, claims, credit, fox, laden, news, pakistan, qaeda, report, reuters, scale, spy, usama
The Hindu |
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Posted by admin | Posted on 27-04-2012
Category : Stocks
Tags: cia, clandestine, destroying, exclusive, finds, head, miamiherald, news, probe, purged, reuters, senate, service, spy, top stories
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Posted by admin | Posted on 27-04-2012
Category : Business
Tags: disappointing, favor, fund, iii, large, long, mutual funds, ncmi, price, spy, trail, vrx, wpvlx
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Weitz Funds can boast about some strong long-term track records. During the past 15 years, Weitz Partners Value returned 9.7% annually, outdoing the S&P 500 by 3.6 percentage points and topping 97% of large blend funds, according to Morningstar. Weitz Value also produced stellar results, returning 8.8% and surpassing 98% of peers in the large value category.
But the Weitz funds are only for patient shareholders. Diehard value investors, the Weitz managers take stocks that have delivered disappointing earnings or fallen out of favor. As a result, the funds sometimes trail the markets for long periods. In 2008, both Weitz funds lagged most of their peers.
For many investors, the best choice may be one of the company’s younger funds, Weitz Partners III Opportunity (WPOIX). Partners III outdid most peers in 2008. During the past five years, the fund topped Weitz Partners Value and Weitz Value by 3 percentage points annually.
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Posted by admin | Posted on 26-04-2012
Category : Business
Tags: alu, amzn, click, crus, Earnings, press, research, spy
Updated from 6:56 p.m. ET with information on after-hours trading.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — And that’s the power of Apple.
What may have more to do with whether stocks can build on this rally though is how the market ultimately interprets the mixed message sent by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday afternoon as the central bank’s members telegraphed growing hawkishness but good, old Ben Bernanke remained his dovish self during the press conference.
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Excerpt from: Market Preview: When Doves Lie
Posted by admin | Posted on 25-04-2012
Category : Stocks
Tags: agency, angeles, cnn, establishes, focus, gathering, intelligence, military, news, press, service, spy, times, top stories, washington
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