Contrarian Outlook

Can we income seekers safely get back into REITs (real estate investment trusts) next year?With the yield on the S&P 500 about to drop to a sad 1.5% (thanks, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) addition), renewed...

If you’re making buy decisions based on the daily gyrations of the S&P 500, you’re setting yourself up for big losses—and costing yourself a shot at big dividends, too.Why? For...

As contrarians, we know we need to buy when everyone’s selling. Because that’s when we get gains like this:Buying Into the March Crash Was Hard—But It Paid Off Of course, anyone who...

When this closed-end fund (CEF) lowered its monthly dividend for the first time in 17 years, many income investors (understandably) panicked and sold.Too bad for them. They missed out on 27% returns...

What are we dividend investors to expect in 2021? Let’s look to Washington, DC, where the switch on Jay Powell’s printing press is stuck in “high”:Money Supply...

I’ve been hearing from a lot of readers who are sitting on some nice gains this year—and now they’re wondering if it’s time to sell.Should you? As with so many other things in...

Markets are betting on the federal government pumping $908 billion in stimulus into the economy. If that cash wave rolls out, it’ll boost the group of funds I want to talk to you about today....

With 2020 coming to a (merciful) close, it’s a good time to take a moment to cast an eye over our dividend portfolios.One thing to pay particular attention to: the amount of cash you’re...

The mainstream crowd has gotten way too greedy—which means we could be in the teeth of a stock-market selloff within weeks.Most folks hear the word “selloff” and gasp. But not us...

What exactly are we to do in this levitating market? Buy more? Pull back? Do nothing?I get why most folks are uneasy these days—they’re seeing the stock market, and particularly tech...

That’s been the subject of several financial headlines lately. The authors are suggesting that the traditional mix of 60% large-cap stocks and 40% safe bonds won’t generate enough money...

With stocks breaking to all-time highs, we should emphasize security of the dividends we’re purchasing first and foremost. In previous months, it was a good time to be greedy. Now, with other...

There’s no doubt in my mind: five years from now we’ll look back at this time and say it was a golden opportunity to buy dividend stocks.Those who bought in will be sitting on big gains...

Mortgage payments. Car payments. Cell-phone bills. Power bills. Water bills. Credit card bills.Yuck. They’re the only downside to being retired! These bills show up (or debit our accounts) every...

Something shocking just happened: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin cut off a $454-billion program the Federal Reserve uses to keep the bond market running.A disaster, right? You’d think so....

Our beat here at Contrarian Outlook is dividends. We seek to collect them using proven income strategies.Dividend stock investing isn’t easy, even though it looks so on the surface. (Find a high...