Sunday, December 23, 2012

Weekly Links: December 23, 2012

Each Sunday I highlight the Carnivals I participated in over the past week, along with any notable articles that I came across. For those readers not familiar with carnivals, it's where personal finance bloggers submit their best articles of the week with one blog serving as the host. The entries are separated into various categories such as Investing, Credit, Debt, Budgeting, Frugality, Wealth Building, Money Management, Financial Planning, Insurance, Taxes, The Economy, Real Estate, et. al. Below are the carnivals that I participated in this week, along with a link to my article:

Articles I enjoyed reading included (in no particular order):

- The Dividend Guy presented Emera EMA Dividend Stock Analysis
- Disciplined Approach to Investing presented Fiscal Cliff Not Resulting In Dividend Cliff
- Dividend Growth Investor presented Dividend Stocks I Purchased Over the Past Two Months

The DIV-Net Featured Articles

Articles from D4L-News:

Risky Dividend-Paying Stocks to Avoid
Investors have had to endure a lot of turbulence and volatility this year, but it's been a very good year for those who invest in dividend-paying stocks. In the third quarter, dividend increases by U.S. companies amounted to $8.8 billion, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. Even with all the positive news for dividend-paying stocks, there are some that are best avoided. Here are a few to keep out of your portfolio...

Cliff Diving, or Not
Given the prophecies from many economists that a failure to act on the fiscal cliff by Congress will bring economic doom, and given how sensitive the market has been to headlines over the past three years, the stock market’s recent even keel has surprised many observers, including us. Regardless of the market’s seeming indifference to the cliff, we still believe that a failure by Congress to agree on a solution prior to year-end would result in a sizeable drop in stock market prices. How sizeable? In light of these recent precedents, we believe...

Rich Will Not Abandon Dividend Stocks
The soak the billionaires movement that quietly became the soak the millionaires movement, that morphed into soak the rich, who we find are those couples who make $250,000 per year or more (and singles who make $200,000 per year or more). Those who fear that dividend stocks will collapse due to the scheduled increase of dividend taxes to the ordinary rate are most likely wrong, because...

Dividend Income Versus Dividend Growth
So which is better: stocks that pay a modest dividend but offer the promise to grow that dividend in the future, or stocks that pay out most of their earnings as dividends with seemingly little potential for growth? There are pros and cons to both approaches. Dividend growth companies are often higher quality with disciplined managers focused on stable dividend growth. The ability to increase dividends through thick and thin suggests...

Dividend Income Versus Dividend Growth
So which is better: stocks that pay a modest dividend but offer the promise to grow that dividend in the future, or stocks that pay out most of their earnings as dividends with seemingly little potential for growth? There are pros and cons to both approaches. Dividend growth companies are often higher quality with disciplined managers focused on stable dividend growth. The ability to increase dividends through thick and thin suggests...

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There are some really good articles here, please take time and read a few of them.

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