A Basket Of 5 Bear Market Dividend Stocks Yielding 5%

Dividend-paying stocks are back in vogue in 2014. The leading stocks year-to-date are the utilities and defensive sectors like the Mortgage REITs, which I wrote about last month (check back in a few weeks for the MREIT Q2 Scorecard). Despite getting off to a nice start, and even with the bounce-back the last few days after a minor correction, stocks and bonds have largely traded in lock-step in 2014. You can see rising prices for both stocks and bonds in 2014 -- that would be falling yields for bonds -- here: It is unlikely that this relationship will continue. The same situation was evident in 2013, and the situation resolved itself with a massive spike-upwards in bond yields from 1.6% to 3% in the span of 5 months. This decimated the dividend-payers, but I don't expect a repeat anytime soon. If global geopolitical tensions ease and growth... Read more