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One potential response to declining markets is moving a portion of an investment portfolio into equities that continue their extended records of steady dividend hikes. Income investors seek vehicles that can maintain long streaks of annual dividend increases because these tend to outperform market averages over extended time horizons. Equities with steady dividend hikes generally deliver slightly higher total returns…

Income investors seeking equities to buy right now should consider one of more than two-dozen large-cap stocks going ex-dividend next week. Several characteristics make large-cap stocks desirable as core portfolio building blocks. Generally stocks of older and established companies, these equities typically offer a high degree of operational and financial transparency. This transparency allows investors easy access to information for…

While most investors are trying to play defense during the current crash, some investors are using short stock positions and short ETFs to extract positive gains amid significant losses for the overall markets. First, investors must understand that using short positions is very risky. A short position — or shorting an equity — involves betting that an equity will decline…

One potential response to declining markets is moving a portion of an investment portfolio into equities that continue their extended records of steady dividend hikes. Income investors seek vehicles that can maintain long streaks of annual dividend increases because these tend to outperform market averages over extended time horizons. Equities with steady dividend hikes generally deliver slightly higher total returns…

While down amidst the current market decline, some dividend stocks still were able to maintain a total return of more than 10% over the past 12 months and currently offer dividend yields in excess of 5%. These dividend yields certainly received a boost from falling share prices as the dividend yield is the ratio of an equity’s total annual dividend…