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

From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Oh, NOW it’s official?

by Nilus Mattive on November 30, 2008

in Dividend Stock, Housing Market, Interest Rate News

I love how we finally have official word that the country is in recession. Gee, thanks NBER!
In case you missed it, the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee, the most widely-followed experts on the subject just determined that the U.S. economy ended its 73-month-long period of expansion in December 2007.
Coincidentally, [...]

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My New Favorite Commercial — GM financing deals

by Nilus Mattive on November 18, 2008

in General

Yet again, I have found a new favorite TV commerical. I saw it for the first time last night. It’s from GM, and it talks about how they really want to hook me up with a cheap loan on a new car. It goes on and on about my financing options (I only saw it once [...]

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ACAS Suspending Dividend

by Nilus Mattive on November 10, 2008

in Consumer Credit News, Dividend Stock

Bad news: American Capital Strategies has also fallen victim to the credit crunch and has decided to suspend its dividend payments.
Obviously, I am extremely disappointed by the news. ACAS has been my favorite high-yield play in the financial sector, and one of the companies that looked best positioned to capitalize on temporary weakness [...]

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