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March 9, 2015

Dividend stocks: Prepare for a bumpy ride

  • Last month may have been a sneak preview of the volatility in store as interest rates eventually climb.
    • By STAN CHOE
    AP Business Writer

    NEW YORK — Dividend investing used to be so easy, not to mention lucrative. But it may be set to get a lot different.

    Stocks that pay the biggest dividends took a nosedive last month. Power and gas utilities — once such steady and boring payers of dividends that they were called “widow-and-orphan stocks” — posted their second-biggest drop since the financial crisis. That's even though every other sector of the market continued to cruise higher in February.


     
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