Gold mining stocks have been steadily increasing dividends (effectively doubling their yield over the past twelve months) and are expected to make record payouts this year.
New York City Public Advocate Bill de Brasio released a list of investment firms that owned gun stocks in hopes of increasing the outcry and derision.
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Credit also was used to buy stocks on margin, greatly increasing the market's volume and volatility.
Moreover, Investec adds, "increasing supply and rising stocks are likely to lead to prices falling".
Many sin stocks also pay high dividends, increasing an investor's overall return.
Kimmel screens for what he calls "magnet" stocks with high relative strength, increasing institutional ownership and accelerating growth in sales, profits and profit margins.
Eveillard's First Eagle Global Fund, which has enjoyed a five-year annualized return of 18% (compared with 15% at MSCIs World Index), has been steadily increasing its positions in Japanese stocks to 21% of the fund, behind only U.S. stocks at 24%.
Politically speaking, increasing taxes on the sale of stocks as a means unto itself is unlikely.
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With home prices increasing and construction coming back, stocks like Lennar and KB Home have been on a tear recently.
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Moreover, companies with increasing dividends have outperformed other large cap stocks over the past year.
The sale has generated increasing interest over the last year as cable stocks have begun to rebound, thanks in large part to such new services as cable telephony, digital cable and on-demand television.
In a down market, you watch the number of stocks making new lows, because as long as this number is increasing, the downtrend is likely intact.
This is true regardless of the long-run track record of stocks and the trend toward lower yields for bonds caused by the increasing demand for bonds by both the government and investors.
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The investment company Alliance Trust is increasing its annual management charge for customers who use it to open a stocks and shares Isa.
Well, guess what: You can put together an investment portfolio of great U.S. blue chip stocks right now that are paying close to 4% and that have a history of increasing dividends.
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They have been increasing their stakes in the industrials while at the same time reducing their exposure to materials stocks.
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Stocks with payout ratios of between 25% and 60% are attractive in terms of maintaining or increasing their dividends, for all the reasons that companies with payout ratios of between 60% and 100% are not.
In an environment where assets (stocks and housing) have shrunk over the last decade and consumers in the U.S. and elsewhere are increasing their savings and reducing debt as retirement looms for an aging baby boomer generation, the current policies of stimulus make less and less sense.
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