High quality preferred stocks are now offering double the dividend yield as shares of the same company's common stock.
Despite significant volatility along the way, looking at any S&P 500 chart for 2013 makes it pretty clear that common stock market prices have moved up sharply this year delivering gains to value investors.
Conversely, in response to rumors that the Fed may be about to start backing out of its Quantitative Easing bond-buying program soon, the market prices of preferred stock shares offered by the same companies fell during June and again during early-August, pushing preferred stock dividend yields higher for income investors...
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Despite significant volatility along the way, looking at any S&P 500 chart for 2013 makes it pretty clear that common stock market prices have moved up sharply this year delivering gains to value investors.
Conversely, in response to rumors that the Fed may be about to start backing out of its Quantitative Easing bond-buying program soon, the market prices of preferred stock shares offered by the same companies fell during June and again during early-August, pushing preferred stock dividend yields higher for income investors...
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