From Newsmax:
Economist Jeremy Siegel says that dividend-paying stocks are still the best investment choice - even though for most of 2009, non-dividend-paying stocks in the S&P 500 Index left dividend-payers in the dust.
“The entire decline in dividends can be attributed to the financial sector, which cut its total payouts by $79 billion over the past two years,” Siegel says.
“In other sectors of the economy - energy, health care, technology, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, telecom - dividends have actually...
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