As an income investor, you know that tracking down larger yields usually requires taking on more risk. And, in some cases, generating larger dividends requires companies to make leveraged investments themselves.
Shares of Credit Suisse Group AG (CS) fell two percent on the rumor that United States regulators are looking at the company’s accounting practices.
Ask 100 analysts opinions on the strength of the U.S. economic recovery, and you’ll get 101 different answers. But that variation shouldn’t surprise anyone: there are simply too many variables, metrics and indicators pointing in different directions to get one definitive answer.
Earlier this month, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said the Fed would keep rates near zero well into 2015 due to the country’s uneven recovery.
Europe’s largest bank, HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBC), published its 2013 full-year earnings and despite an aggressive cost-cutting campaign, the bank still missed analysts’ estimates.
Seaspan Corporation (SSW) owns more than 70 ships that it leases out to corporations. But it appears the company also transports value to income investors.