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quick news this morning: Yellow Media (TSE:YLO) just announced a dividend cut from $0,65 to $0.15. YLO is dropping faster than a F1 this morning (currently down 30% at $1.34. I don't have much hope for this stock to be honest. I recently discuss how dangerous chasing high dividend yield is (especially when combined with high dividend payout ratio).  Once again, moving toward a more conservative dividend investing approach might be the solution!   I hope you don't own any YLO... …

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After selling RIM (thank God!), I’ve taken a few weeks to look at my portfolio. I was pretty happy with the companies I bought since the beginning of this year (HSE, CVX, JNJ, BNS, and a covered call etf; ZWB). While the market is moving sideways, I’ve built a solid core of great dividend paying stocks. In fact, the average dividend yield of these stocks on the market is 4.91% (thx to ZWB at 10%...).   More trades during the summer I’ve debated this for a long time before making …

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  Last week, we looked at 2 very interesting dividend stocks: Coca-Cola – KO and PepsiCo – PEP. 2 huge companies, 2 popular beverage marketers, 2 dividend aristocrats! What can we really except from this dividend stock battle? The fight of the Titans! So who’s gonna win with a KO? ;-)   KO and PEP last week's results   While I was doing both stock analyses last week, the 2 dividend payers disclosed their Q2 results. First off the dividend news: KO declares an …

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  Since we launched Dividend Investing – How To Build A Never Ending Cash Distributor, we have received several emails from readers and new subscribers. I’m trying to answer to as many as possible individually. Sometimes, I get enough stuff that I decide to write a full article. This is the case today with the analysis of a high yield dividend portfolio from a reader. This Canadian investor is making 8% with his portfolio, let’s take a closer look:   The High Yield Dividend …

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