A list of top income stocks with tons of room to raise dividends

From Dividends Value:

Dividend sustainability is paramount for the high-yield investor. Having a stock cut its dividend could potentially crush their income. A high-yield investor is less concerned about dividend growth than maintaining the current high-yield. Most traditional dividend growth stocks pay a moderate to low yield, thus sustainability is not enough – the dividend growth investor also expects substantial and consistent growth.

This expectation does not change even when the economy turns down and earnings decline; dividend growth investors still require annual dividend growth. The companies that are able to accomplish this are those with an operating model that generates strong free cash flows with...

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Top trader Gartman: The investing mistake you must never, ever make

From The Crosshairs Trader:
I had the pleasure of attending a recent meeting of the CFA Society of NC with my friend Derek Hernquist. Dennis Gartman, well known trader and publisher of the well respected Gartman Letter, was the sponsored guest and speaker.
Mr. Gartman gave what I consider to be one of the best discussions about the importance of admitting when you are wrong. Beginning traders especially have a hard time admitting when a trading decision is the wrong one. Yet, as you will soon find out - if you have not done so already - admitting you are wrong and closing out a losing trade quickly and with a small loss is...
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Casey Research: We're in the eye of the financial storm

From The Gold Report:

Carlsbad is several hundred miles south of Sutter's Mill, but the experts and investors who gathered for Casey Research's recent Gold Summit were just as enthusiastic about the precious metal as the prospectors who headed into the hills back in 1849.

The Gold Report took the opportunity to speak with some of the many experts on hand. For three days, the leading experts in the resource investment sector gathered with investors to discuss the investment strategies. Doug Casey, Richard Russell, Ross Beaty, Eric Sprott, Ian McAvity, Rick Rule, Robert Prechter, and Bob Quartermain all gave their varied impressions on the market and their investment ideas.

The time was right to focus on gold because...

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Four essential traits of all great dividend stocks

From Dividends Value:

... Dividend growth investing is not about exit points, momentum swings, relative strength, sector rotation; instead it is about studying fundamentals, selecting superior stocks, and building a portfolio with a long-term horizon. When we buy a dividend stock, we hope to hold it forever.
What makes a good dividend stock? Here are some of the things I look for...
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Several important companies report earnings next week

From Bespoke Investment Group:

This week was actually very light on the earnings front, but next week things will pick up significantly with 355 companies set to report.

We went through our earnings calendar and found some of the most important companies that will report next week. Below we highlight these names along with a few earnings season stats for each one. The EPS Beat Rate represents...

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Three methods for finding some of the world's best value stocks

From ValueWalk:

Bruce Greenwald, professor at Columbia University and heir of the tradition of value investing teaching at that university from the father of the theory, Benjamin Graham, presents in his book Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond, an interesting framework for analyzing investment opportunities.

He divides the possible methods of assessment in three…

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Cap & Trade - An Economic Nightmare?

The Waxman - Markey bill or better know as the Cap & Trade bill, is currently working its way thru the House of Representatives and Senate. This bill is designed to limit Americas carbon emissions and will end up being one of the largest Taxes ever levied. The bill will actually levy financial penalties against companies that produce carbon dioxide and other gases. Carbon dioxide is a byproduct of burning wood, coal, gasoline, etc.


Who do you think is going to bear the brunt of these taxes? You guessed it you and I along with every energy intensive business in this country. Coal miners, especially those on the east coast will probably be put out of business. Coal power plants that produce more carbon dioxide than they're allowed will have to buy the right to produce more. That additional cost will be passed on to consumers, you and I.

US steel makers are large carbon emitters and will probably get crushed by this legislation also. Foreign steel makers won’t be affected by this and steel imports will rise dramatically, which is just more bad news for our already fragile economy.

Then there’s the refiners they’re responsible for over 40% of carbon emissions and as such will be the biggest buyers of carbon credits. Many of the smaller and older refiners will go out of business and we’ll be importing more foreign gasoline. More bad news for the economy and the price of a gallon of gas.

This whole nightmare amounts to a molehill compared to how little it’s going to affect “global warming”.

Let's all understand one thing right now, this 1,200-page bill isn't about saving the environment over the next few decades, its all about dollars – yours and mine – right now.

According to analysis by the Heritage Foundation (a conservative think-tank), the combined cost of the bill would be $3,000 per family in 2012 and $20,000 per household by 2035.
How can you or your family be expected to handle the burden of an additional $20,000/year. What’s that going to do for your standard of living?

The question you should be asking yourself is, can I profit from this fiasco? The answer is, I think you can.

Who stands to profit most? Probably the Green Energy companies. You can look for some green energy ETF’s, that way you’ll be more diversified than buying one or two of these small cap stocks.
Nuclear power producers will probably be another winner, they don’t produce carbon dioxide. Their cost to produce electricity won't go up, but they will benefit from increased electric prices. They'll just keep getting paid to do what they've always done, but now they’ll have the added income from being able to sell their carbon credits.

Make no mistake selling credits will be big business. That brings to mind the brokers that sell these carbon credits, they’ll also get a good boost to their bottom line.

So if you think our politicians are living in a Fairy Tale world, then send them a wake up call and tell them your fed up with their nonsense. You can do it here. Until they get the message it’s just going to be more of the same with you and I carrying the load.

Good Investing,

TC