Buy These 2 Cheap Dividend Payers Before Yellen Raises Rates
December 06, 2016 at 05:00 AM EST
On the lookout for safe dividends? (Who isn’t, right?) These days, you generally have three options: large-cap stocks with long dividend histories, municipal bonds and US Treasuries. Treasuries are considered the safest of that group, and large-cap stocks the riskiest, but they’re still much safer than plenty of other investments, such as small caps and junk bonds. I’ll show you two low-risk investments that are great buys now in a moment. But first, I want to tell you why recent events have called the safety of some of the options I just named into question. Let’s start by looking at the following chart: “Safe” Assets Turn Volatile First, note how the iShares S&P National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Fund (MUB), ... Read more