The Safest Dividends in the S&P 500

If you're a longtime Dividend Opportunities subscriber, you might remember an issue back in November where I hunted down the safest dividend in the S&P 500 (SPY). The response to the article was overwhelming. So I decided to provide an update to my newest readers -- taking the same rigorous metrics I applied before to discover where the safest dividend in the S&P is today. Thankfully, the draconian cuts we saw in 2008-2009 are history. Believe it or not, these cuts added up to $52 billion in lost income during 2009 -- and this was for just the cuts from stocks in the S&P 500. To put this figure in perspective, losing $52 billion would put Warren Buffett into bankruptcy. Today the news looks much brighter. Among the 7,000 companies that report dividend information to Standard & Poor's, there were more than 1,700 dividend increases in 2010,... Read more