Facts and Figures More than half of the companies in the S&P 500 have a higher yield than the 10-year U.S. Treasury. There are 271 stocks with a higher yield, 126 stocks with a lower yield, and 103 stocks not paying a dividend. (Note: data as of May 21 stock prices with the 10yr yielding about 1.74%; the number is undoubtedly higher with the 10-year at an all-time low of 1.558% on May 31). (Source, courtesy of Jason Zweig.)...
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency released its S&P Case-Shiller 20 City index on Tuesday—the prominent indicator for home prices— for the month of March. The 2.6% decrease, up from a 3.5% decrease in February, is lower than expected, which indicates that the value of residential real estate taken from 20 major cities is increasing, slowly but surely. Previous numbers have indicated that the majority of cities taken in this survey have been rebounding at slow, but...
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