{"id":15616,"date":"2012-10-26T09:07:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T13:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=15616"},"modified":"2012-10-26T09:46:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T13:46:54","slug":"dividends-and-shorts-its-possible-to-survive-this-yuchy-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=15616","title":{"rendered":"Dividends and shorts. It’s possible to survive this yuchy market."},"content":{"rendered":"
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This morning I received a whopping big dividend from AGNC.\u00a0 I like dividend paying stocks, though I’m much much cooler on mortgage REITs these days.<\/p>\n

Here’s a new category of high dividend paying stocks. They’re called business development companies They lend and invest money to venture capital and private equity backed companies and select publicly-traded companies. They sort of do what banks do, but better, faster and with more insight.<\/p>\n

My friend likes these ones HTGC, SLRC, SUNS, FSC, GBDC and TCRD. They’ve held up well. They yield 7% to 9%.<\/p>\n

There’s a bigger, (though older) list here.<\/strong><\/a> I’m mulling on this category this weekend.<\/p>\n

My shorts keep kicking in — including RadioShack and Best Buy?<\/p>\n

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I think you can pretty well short sell most tech stocks —\u00a0 including AT&T (T), CSCO, GOOG, AMZN, AAPL, NFLX and possibly MSFT. Bounces today will help.<\/p>\n

What happens under various administrations?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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China news:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

+ Starting at abject poverty,\u00a0 the family of China’s prime minister, Wen Jiabao, is now worth $2. 7 billion. according to\u00a0 a New York Time<\/strong><\/a>s investigation. They started getting rich after he became super powerful in the late 1990s.Surprise. Surprise.<\/p>\n

+ China is slowing down, which affecting everything from commodity prices to luxury good sales, viz:<\/p>\n

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You can see a bigger version of the chart here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Weekend tasks:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

+ Back your phone, your laptop and your iPad up. “My life is on that phone,” Susan said this morning, as she hunted for her iPhone.<\/p>\n

+ If you’re using Microsoft’s Outlook, clean it up using Scanpst.exe, which you’ll find buried on your hard drive. It’s called the Inbox Repair Tool and works splendidly.<\/p>\n

+ If you’re using Windows, run your virus checker for a quick disk scan. And clean your hard drive withthe disk clean up tool Click on C:, then Properties, then Tools.<\/p>\n

+ The Economist has Special Report on A Sense of Place — Technology and Geography<\/em>. click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Harry Newton who wonders if this is really PC. (But who really cares?)<\/p>\n

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