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With everyone predicting that interest rates and bond yields would begin to rise, I started to wonder what correlation, if any, exists between the two. Is the "inevitable" rise in interest rates going to doom the stock market? Here's what I found.

Italian energy company Eni SpA is yielding 5.66% in dividends. After a pretty dismal 2009, what's the outlook for the company and is the dividend safe?

Dividend seeking investors seeking out the highest yielding stocks in the market are playing a dangerous game. Here's why, and how to protect yourself.

The retail sector, still sluggish by most any measure, has been showing some signs of new life. Are storefronts coming back?

Ben Bernanke himself is saying that interest rates will stay low for the immediate future--but why announce such a move?

There are many criticisms of the Obama administration's plans to fix the housing market. Here is an overview of one of those criticisms that was published in the New York Post.

Great Florida Bank is offering a 6-month CD that yields 1.40% APY. That's the best 6-month cd rate according to the BestCashCow rate tables as of April 14, 2010.

President Obama dispatched Austan Goolsbee to attack banks on CNBC today.

ALLETE Inc is an energy company operating mainly in Minnesota and Wisconsin, with complementary operations in Illinois and Michigan. The company has a dividend yield of 5% and could be a good part of the dividend seeking investor's income portfolio.

Banks give back money?? Surely you jest!

The Dow broke through a critical psychological limit mere days ago--but here's why that doesn't matter to most.

TC Pipelines is a NASDAQ listed partnership with investments in the transportation of natural gas mainly from Canada to the rest of North America. The partnership is currently yielding a distrubution of 7.56%.

Bill Gross can't ditch US treasuries fast enough. Here's why!