This 10.9% Dividend Is Cheap (Even Though Stocks Have Soared)

Think back just a couple weeks: The “yen carry trade” had investors running scared, and we had a terrific opportunity to buy stocks—better still our favorite income plays on stocks : closed-end funds (CEFs) yielding 8%+ . But wow, was that window brief! Stocks have more than recovered since, and are what I’d call highly valued, with a price-to-earnings ratio of around 27.5. Let me be clear: I’m not saying stocks are overvalued : They’re likely to keep posting good returns because earnings are rising, and the economy is still dodging the recession we’ve been warned about for three years now.… Read more