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The European Union is in disarray. The currency is falling like a brick, the PIGS economies are entering long recessions, and bailouts are being thrown everywhere. This has created some great opportunities in high dividend, quality stocks for US investors.

Big oil companies gush three things: oil, cash and dividends. Chevron (CVX) is up there with the bestm yiedling a comfortable 3.70% in dividends. Is it a buy for the income-seeking investor?

The municipal market continues to bob along at the top of the dishpan, regardless of what’s going on below. There, Treasuries and gold have surged, unwound, and surged again on flight to safety fears while the Euro-drama has unnerved equities and credit.

Nuclear power is cleaner than fossil fuels, and uranium is everywhere. This article simply presents the current demand for Uranium and potential demand in the future in an amalgam of demand facts, because whether environmentalists like it or not, Uranium – and nuclear power, is going to drive the future (possibly literally).

Pharmaceutical giant Merck (MRK) recently merged with Schering-Plough in an attempt to defend revenues, as a number of patents are set to expire exposing the company to low cost competition. At 4.29%, what does this mean for the dividend yield?

Investors in almost all savings accounts and CDs are losing money due to inflation. Here's how to avoid this predicament and make sure your money doesn't lose it's purchasing power.

Everbank just wrote me with some information about their new Diversified Metals CD. It's an interesting product, especially with gold and silver hitting new highs.

It was a wild week in bonds, folks--with constantly shifting rates, yields, values...and plans. Here's a fast summary of the week in bonds to give you a hopefully clearer picture of what happened, and what may yet happen.

There was a bond auction for United States Treasuries recently...and movement was minimal.

This week, the QQQQ position I have taken has bounced back nicely and is now up $1,130 even though QQQQ is actually down a bit from where I initially purchased it. But even better, the call I sold is now eroding quickly and that is where the income comes from. My previous article describes the position I took in detail. But to summarize, I did the following:

Investors looking to generate income pursue stocks with high and stable dividend yields. But how does one know whether or not the yield itself is cheap? Here's a good way to work it out.