These 2 “Battleship” Dividends Love Inflation (and Yield Up to 5.5%)

These days, we contrarian income seekers are following a simple rule: “trade lightly.” Truth is, we saw this mess coming. It’s why we started lightening up our positions in my Contrarian Income Report service back in November. In so doing, we’ve locked in some very nice returns, like 90% on chemical maker Chemours Co (CC); 44% on blue-chip-focused closed-end fund (CEF) Gabelli Dividend Trust (GDV); and 98% on the PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund (PDI— formerly PCI). We didn’t sell any of these dividend payers because something was wrong with them—far from it! They’d simply ridden Jay Powell’s cheap-money wave as far as they could.… Read more