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Companies I Invest In? Those With a Future

If every company I own cuts its dividend by 50% then I am probably making some bad decisions by trying to buy quality stocks when they are cheap and yielding more than 4.7%. Are corporations that manufacture branded alcoholic beverages, and produce and distribute electicity likely to be affected by a very weak economy, probably not to th extent that they'd cut their dividend 50%.

For that matter, will insurance companies and banks in Canada be in situations where they'll be forced to cut their dividends? Perhaps, but I am betting that they won't. Bank of America cut their dividend by 50% after losing billions on bad mortgages, etc., yielding over 8% at times, and making two industry changing acquisitions. Canadian financial institutions are in much better shape than any of the major U.S. banks that have faltered or cut their dividends.