TomF75

Starbucks Lacks Direction and Soul

Back when I used to have an Expense account, I was religous in my devotion to Starbucks (usually 3x's per week). Now with no expense account, and having to pay for my own coffee, MCD and Dunkin's coffee taste ALOT better than it used too.

Dividend Stocks: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

About a week or 2 ago PFF popped up on my radar screen. As of this writing, I see a dividend of 10.62%. HOWEVER, when I dug deeper I noticed that not "some" but "most" of the stocks are financial related...76% to be exact (the rest utilities). I'm not ready to trust any of these banks, since even the "good ones" (e.g. BAC) seem to still have scary $hit hiding in their balance sheets somewhere...Invest @ your own peril!!


On Jan 30 09:04 AM hazenyc wrote:

> if you're looking for a more diversified high-dividend-yield there
> are too good ETFs that have 11-14% yield and have been trading fairly
> stabily over the recent bloodletting.. tickers are:
> PFF and PGF ..
> they both contain preferreds, corporate bonds and shares in the ETF..
> disclaimer: some of the companies are kinda toxic but certainly outperforming
> their common share counterparts - includes the likes of WFC, USB,
> FCX, C, MET, ABN, JPM, C, MS, GS, ING etc
> so just an idea to play with!