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Fri. May. 29, 2009 Dividends4Life commentary

Dividend Stocks Are ‘Slow Good’

For years Heinz Ketchup ran commercials describing their product as ’slow good’. It was an obvious inference to ’so good’ and that it was worth waiting on. Investing in dividend stocks in very similar. You certainly won’t find sudden wealth on any given day, but over time those compounding dividends will handsomely reward you.

The Few, The Proud, The Dividend Raisers!

This last week was similar to each of the two prior weeks in that we saw another large bank slash its dividend by more than 80%. Last Friday, Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) cut its dividend by 85% to $0.05. The company said it would help them retain an additional $5 billion in common equity each year.