The new special report, 17 Big, Fat Dividend Stocks, includes stocks with yields of up to 18%.

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Attracted to a stock with a fat dividend yield, but not so sure about the underlying company?

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One area worth looking is in the financial sector, especially among regional banks that still offer fat dividend yields.

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Investors have snapped up the likes of Annaly Capital Management and American Capital Agency for their fat dividend yields of better than 10%.

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Cisco's shareholders and analysts expect constant change and brave, hairy bets, but Bell Whatever's shareholders, for the most part, are fat and happy in Florida and want only the security of a dividend check.

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They pour billions into dividend-seeking ETFs, they put up with clunky companies whose only attraction is a fat yield, they rhapsodize over prospects for getting more dividends from Apple.

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