Halliburton Company About To Put More Money In Your Pocket (HAL) + MORE

“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years,” Warren Buffett has famously said. Easier said than done, but it’s an aim to strive for — especially for dividend investors who are counting on dividend stocks to provide them with reliable income for years to come…

A few months ago, I put money into Facebook, buying at $19.99. I had made my case for owning Facebook over and over and would have been paid the IPO price. I didn’t though. I try to stay away from IPO’s. It’s too volatile, too risky. Instead, I waited a while and once the price seemed more stable, I purchased…

“You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideals come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.” 

“Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies…

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I have been quiet since the beginning of the year with regards to my portfolio. Back in January, I had some shares of Apple (AAPL) and had put a hold on my stocks. Like many other investors, I wasn’t sure about where the market was heading. As it has been surging since then, each day was another one telling us that we are closer to a market correction…

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 6/3/13, Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.125, payable on 6/26/13. As a percentage of HAL’s recent stock price of $42.43, this dividend works out to approximately 0.29%. Click here to learn which 25 S…