Dividend ETFs losing luster as rates rise
Breakfast (with Benjamin) is served: Dividend ETFs losing luster as rates rise; Bernanke's last stand; nontransparent active ETFs; Obamacare's drag on health care; useless jobless claims data; and global New Year's traditions.
- Spiking Treasury yields have not been kind to dividend ETFs. Yields are up 71% since April
- Ben Bernanke’s final chapter. Fed chairman could be out of a job by Friday
- Money managers are pushing for non-transparent active ETFs. Reporting portfolio holdings quarterly
- The Fed’s head fake on tapering is doing the trick. So why taper? The market upside of monetary policy miscommunication
- Quality of health care will continue to erode under Obamacare. Failed website isn’t even the biggest problem
- Initial jobless claims have become a useless measure of economic strength. An incorrect seasonal adjustment
- A handful of dividend-paying stocks that could leverage the economic recovery and prosper in rising-rate cycle. A 2,000% jump in year-over-year per-share earnings by Navios Maritime
- A dozen New Year’s good luck traditions for the world traveler. Great grapes in Mexico, breaking dishes in Denmark
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