Is the Fidelity High Dividend ETF the Smartest Investment You Can Make Today?
In a shaky stock market environment, dividend-paying stocks can be especially attractive.
Plenty of people are worrying about the market's plunge these days, and you may be one of them. If you are, take some comfort in the fact that corrections like the one the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) recently entered happen every few years, on average, and the stock market has recovered from each one.
It's smart to keep any short-term money out of stocks, so that if a pullback occurs and you need cash, you won't have to sell stocks at depressed prices. But with your long-term dollars, how should you invest? Permit me to suggest dividend-paying stocks.
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