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3 weeks ago | 
dailytradealert.com | Brett Owens |Contrarian Outlook
The UK trade deal was apparently the tasty egg roll before the main course of lower Chinese tariffs. A delightful order for this dividend grower, ready to feast on the “Peking duck” of trade agreements. China is one of the biggest buyers of US crops, importing tens of billions of dollars of American agriculture every year. Soybeans and corn meander from Midwest farms all the way across the Pacific to feed China’s large (and growing) livestock industry.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailytradealert.com | Michael Foster |Contrarian Outlook
I get it: For many people, the rough start to 2025 conjures (painful!) memories of 2022. It’s an easy comparison to make. But we must resist doing so. Because unlike in 2022, today’s volatility is caused by panic alone. That’s the kind of situation we contrarians love!Nonetheless, I get it if you still want to be cautious. With that in mind, I’ve got a fund that gives us full market exposure with a key “hedge”—and a growing 8.1% dividend, too. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
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1 month ago | 
dailytradealert.com | Brett Owens |Contrarian Outlook
It’s no secret this economy is slowing—at least in the near term. That’s given us contrarians a (time-limited!) buy window on the “dividend twofer” we’re going to dive into today. One of the tickers we’ll talk about below pays a sturdy 7% now. The other yields 4.9% and sports a source of upside no one has noticed (except us, of course!). Both are utility plays, which tend to rise as the economy slows, lowering interest rates as it does.
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1 month ago | 
dailytradealert.com | Brett Owens |Contrarian Outlook
Dividends over drama, please. Like these five steady stocks that yield 7.2%, on average. Back in school they taught us that to increase returns, investors had to take on additional risk. This was a financial engineering class at Cornell University, by the way. The prof should have known better, but he didn’t, because he was a researcher and not an actual investor. It’s a common mistake in academia, and those who try to invest “buy the book.” The book says more beta means more returns.
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1 month ago | 
dailytradealert.com | Brett Owens |Contrarian Outlook
If the April lows hold, the S&P 500 will clock a 19% peak to trough drop on the tariff news. The drawdown could have been worse—if the bond market had not broken!President Trump was initially resolute in the face of a declining stock market. Wall Street was desperately, unsuccessfully searching for a “Trump Put”—a save from the decline by the White House.
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1 month ago | 
dailytradealert.com | Brett Owens |Contrarian Outlook
Let’s talk about consumer staples dividends today. If we’re heading for a slowdown then we need to be picky about our payouts. When the economy slows, discretionary spending is often punted but staples continue to be bought. Today we’ll discuss five dividends between 4.2% and 10.7%. These “must have” products can provide our portfolios with important recession-resistant qualities. Year-to-date staples have been flat and, in this market, that is great.
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1 month ago | 
dailytradealert.com | Brett Owens |Contrarian Outlook
Trade war volatility rages on—and we contrarians are playing offense and defense with a “homegrown” stock whose dividend has skyrocketed in the last five years. This unsung stock soared double-digits in the 2022 mess—and it’s doing so again. More on that history in a second. First, that skyrocketing dividend is the key to our “offense” here. That’s because dividend growth is the No. 1 predictor of stock gains—and a rising payout is the ultimate “magnet,” pulling share prices higher as it grows.
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1 month ago | 
dailytradealert.com | Brett Owens |Contrarian Outlook |Brett D. Owens
Worried about the trade war and your retirement portfolio? Then I have two words for you: monthly dividends. Today we’ll fawn over four monthly payers that yield up to 17.4% annually. That’s no typo. Hop in my favorite income vehicle and we’ll motor over this market carnage together. The current market environment is nearly perfect for contrarians like us. How is that possible with tariff policy still, ahem, unfolding? Well the market is still full of fear and the weak hands have washed out.
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1 month ago | 
dailytradealert.com | Brett Owens |Contrarian Outlook
The powers that be are playing a high-stakes game of “tariff roulette”—and I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to put my life savings on the table here!But we’re not among the crowd bailing on stocks, either. No way. We’re retirees (or aspiring retirees!) and we demand income. So instead, we’re going to look to “tariff-proof” (or “recession-proof,” if you think this trade war is sending us there) our portfolio. And we’re going to do it while cutting our tax bill, too.
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2 months ago | 
dailytradealert.com | Brett D. Owens |Brett Owens |Contrarian Outlook
There aren’t a lot of things we can say for certain these days, but there is one: We dividend investors are far better off than the mainstream crowd!Consider the unlucky souls who hold “America’s ticker”—my name for the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY). I call it that because, well, pretty well everyone owns it (it’s okay if you have SPY hiding somewhere in your portfolio—we don’t judge!)These poor folks have taken the brunt of the market crash—and they’re getting “paid” a mere 1.4% for the pleasure.
