How We’ll Protect (and Grow) Our 8% Dividends for the Rest of 2023

With the first quarter behind us, now is a good time to ask ourselves if stocks—and especially 8%+ yielding closed-end funds (CEFs)—are getting just a little ahead of themselves. Let’s start with stocks, then we’ll get granular, looking at how CEFs (which usually lag stocks by a few weeks) are setting up as we move deeper into Q2. Source: CNN One glance at the CNN Fear and Greed index and you could be forgiven for thinking things are getting a bit too hot out there. This indicator— a useful indicator of investor sentiment—was pegged at extreme fear for most of 2022, so the reversal was inevitable.… Read more