Nilus Mattive - Financial analyst, editor of Dividend Superstars, and editor of Weiss Research's daily e-letter, Money and Markets.

From the monthly archives:

August 2008

A Fresh Dividend Announcement from Cablevision

by Nilus Mattive on August 28, 2008

in Dividend Stock

To further highlight a point I’ve been hammering home — namely, that plenty of companies continue to pay out nice dividends — take a look at Cablevision’s recent announcement …
In an effort to shore up investor confidence and reward current shareholders, the cable operator will BEGIN paying a dividend starting this September.
Nice!

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Costa Rican Real Estate

by Nilus Mattive on August 24, 2008

in Housing Market

Well, I was absolutely amazed by what I saw in Tamarindo over the last week. Not only were more roads paved, but prices for condos and houses have absolutely skyrocketed from my last visit in 2004. Want examples? How about condos for $700K, $800K, even $1.5 million … yes, U.S. dollars. It’s ironic [...]

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Just a heads up that I will be traveling virtually non-stop for the next month, including visits to three different continents taking me everywhere from Costa Rica to Switzerland to Thailand.
I can’t guarantee that I will always have access to a solid Internet connection, but I will be doing my best to bring you updates from [...]

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Fannie Gets Spanked

by Nilus Mattive on August 8, 2008

in Consumer Credit News, Dividend Stock, Housing Market

Amazingly, Fannie Mae lost another couple billion in the second quarter (2.3 to be exact) and reiterated news about its dividend getting slashed from $0.35 to $0.05.   I guess it’s true what they say — “a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.” 
We are still being told that these GSEs [...]

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