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TIME: We've been writing about dividend payers for a year. They make a lot of sense but have lagged the market badly...
BRAMWELL: Last year was the year rates came down. It was the year for the really stressed-out companies to recover. Dividend stocks will do better now. Take a company like Procter & Gamble, yielding 1.8%. It increases its dividend every year. This is a large, seasoned company. You might be better off, in a diversified portfolio, having that rather than a money-market fund...
BYRNE: After all we've gone through, why wouldn't you want a dividend? The check clears; you get the money. Everything else about the market is a judgment. Longer term, companies that pay dividends will be where you want to be. For dividends to go up a lot, you want to watch where the cash is. Congress is trying to pass a law that lets companies bring money back from overseas without paying tax on it. That would repatriate a lot of dollars available for dividends...
...Group. Last year stocks of companies that lost money rose 132%, while those of companies that posted a profit rose just 43%. Rising rates have a way of dampening speculation and should bring safety (and sanity) back into focus. So stick with blue chips that pay a dividend. The Dodge & Cox Stock Fund is a long-run winner. And let the Fed worry about politics...
...reverse gear Volkswagen cut its dividend for the first time in more than 10 years, after stalling sales, restructuring and start-up costs pushed down profits at Europe 's biggest automaker...