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"Be greedy when others are fearful and be fearful when others are greedy", said Warren Buffett. When quality, long-term income streams go on sale, smart investors know when to pounce. Now might just be the time - here are some picks.

Warren Buffett has been selling stocks this year, and he's doing it at a rate we haven't seen for a long time.

Those two magic words have come back to haunt the former manager of Schroder's: Insider Trading

The Chinese stock market and economy has been on fire over the past few years, leaving nothing in its wake. However, recent price weakness has made some excellent, high-quality and consistent dividend paying stocks available at good prices. Here's my top Chinese dividend payer available to US investors.

There is always talk about gold and silver and platinum, but the least heralded of the ‘big four’ precious metals is palladium. Palladium, looks very similar to silver and platinum but is in its own right a very distinct metal. Although it is often looked strictly as a monetized (hoarded) asset, its actual applications vary.

Uranium is found everywhere. It is in almost every rock and every ounce of seawater. Fission of one atom produces 10,000,000 times the amount of energy than the burning of one atom of coal.

The European Union is in disarray. The currency is falling like a brick, the PIGS economies are entering long recessions, and bailouts are being thrown everywhere. This has created some great opportunities in high dividend, quality stocks for US investors.

Big oil companies gush three things: oil, cash and dividends. Chevron (CVX) is up there with the bestm yiedling a comfortable 3.70% in dividends. Is it a buy for the income-seeking investor?

Nuclear power is cleaner than fossil fuels, and uranium is everywhere. This article simply presents the current demand for Uranium and potential demand in the future in an amalgam of demand facts, because whether environmentalists like it or not, Uranium – and nuclear power, is going to drive the future (possibly literally).

Pharmaceutical giant Merck (MRK) recently merged with Schering-Plough in an attempt to defend revenues, as a number of patents are set to expire exposing the company to low cost competition. At 4.29%, what does this mean for the dividend yield?

Investors in almost all savings accounts and CDs are losing money due to inflation. Here's how to avoid this predicament and make sure your money doesn't lose it's purchasing power.

Everbank just wrote me with some information about their new Diversified Metals CD. It's an interesting product, especially with gold and silver hitting new highs.

This week, the QQQQ position I have taken has bounced back nicely and is now up $1,130 even though QQQQ is actually down a bit from where I initially purchased it. But even better, the call I sold is now eroding quickly and that is where the income comes from. My previous article describes the position I took in detail. But to summarize, I did the following:

Investors looking to generate income pursue stocks with high and stable dividend yields. But how does one know whether or not the yield itself is cheap? Here's a good way to work it out.