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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

How come foreigners can keep assets here and not be taxed on interest, capital gains, estates etc., but American's who do the same overseas are criminals? I guess we are against illegal immigration unless they are rich!

Investing in Dividend Paying Companies

One comment worth considering. I purchased 1,000 shares of MO over 28 years ago and re-invested the dividends for over 20 years until I had amassed 20,000 shares (including splits). At the current time, I hold 20,000 MO, 20,000 PM and 10,000 KFT (I sold about 3,000). My current income from this original investment is over $70,000 a year, twice what I paid for the original Investment. I also have long time positions in other blue chip companies that have multiplied many times from my original investment.

Dow 30 Earnings Reports

This is about the most useless article I've seen yet!

Top 10 Payout Yield Stocks

This article is about as useless as teats on a horse. If Investors want higher yield with safety, slow capital gains and increasing dividends, they would do well to look at the MLP pipeline stocks. I have owned thousands of shares of KMP, OKS, MWE, TPP, EEP & NRP, all pipelines except NRP, which is a coal L.P. All pay over 6%, have raised their dividends between once and four times a year, for the past five years and the yield is tax deferred until the stock is sold, since most of the dividend is return of capital. These stocks are paid solely to move product (natural gas or oil) through a pipeline and are paid by volumn and are not effected by the price of the commodity. Total return for most of these stocks has been between 12%-18% a year since 2,000. Advising an Investor to buy a stock with a high dividend likely to be reduced is idiotic.