Rising interest rates can be a bane for dividend stocks and high-yielding, income-oriented sectors, but there is some positive news in the 2018 dividend outlook. Through the first half of the year, approximately 40% of S&P 500 member firms boosted dividends, potentially making some of the best funds to buy in the dividend landscape all the more attractive. Looked at differently, some of the best funds to buy need to show investors that dividend stocks are worth the extra risk relative to safer U.S. government debt. …read more
Source:: Yahoo Finance
