If you’ve been following the market recently, you may be feeling a bit queasy. Just like the rolling seas, stocks – and bonds, for that matter – have been rising and falling. Thanks to numerous factors, volatility has once again come home to roost. For investors, the surge in volatility is creating a lot of sleepless nights.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
One of the best ways to calm the seas, sleep better at night, and reduce volatility happens to be dividends. The steady cash payments from stocks can go a long way in fighting volatility. And given the market’s recent gyrations, there’s never been a better time to own dividend-paying stocks.
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