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ETF Spotlight – High-Yield Corporate Bonds

ETF Spotlight on PowerShares Fundamental High-Yield Corporate Bond Portfolio Fund (NYSEArca: PHB), part of an ongoing series. Assets: $878.8 million. Objective: The PowerShares Fundamental High Yield Corporate Bond Fund tries to reflect the performance of the RAFI high Yield Bond Index, which uses a Fundamental Index methdology that selects corporate bonds based on their fundamental [...]

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Inhibitex Shares Tanked – What You Need to Know

Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes — just in case they’re material to our investing thesis. What: Shares of hepatitis C drug developer Inhibitex (Nasdaq: INHX  ) felt ill today, with shares down as much as 17%, over continued [...]

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Safest dividends come from stocks that increase them every year

You have to be careful with dividend-paying stocks. Sometimes the yield is so high that one wonders if the dividend is sustainable. Other times, the dividend might look just fine, but if it’s a relatively new payout, then it might not be sustainable either. That’s why you always want to check to see if your [...]