Talking About Beating Bond Yields

Charles Wallace, a great business writer, gave me and Dividend Stocks for Dummies a nice write up in his AOL Daily Finance piece on where to invest in a rocky market.

"In a volatile environment, where the stock market can go down and bonds are paying extremely low interest, a good place to beat the rate of return on bonds is dividend stocks," Lawrence Carrel says. "If you can get potential upside in your investment at a yield that is 60% to 100% better than the 10-year Treasury, why wouldn't you take it?"

I mention a few stocks posting yields much higher than bonds, as well as Utiities Select Spider Fund (XLU), which currently yields 4.1% or 52% more than the 10-year Treasury.

For the full article go to DailyFinance.

Dividend Stocks for Dummies Hits Bookstores

Dividend Stocks for Dummies, my second book, has just been published and is now available in most major bookstores and Amazon.com.

And just like my first book, ETFs for the Long Run, this book has come out just a week before a serious market downturn. Did the publication of this book precipitate the decline. I'll let you decide.