Everyone should have a portion of their portfolio earning steady income, and what better way than a (relatively) safe high dividend yield stock?  In this time of record low interest rates, you have to branch out of CD’s, term deposits, and treasury bills, and get some serious dividend income rolling in.  Right now, companies are holding record amounts of cash, and are looking at ways to utilize that excess cash.  Some are buying other companies, some are buying back their own stock, while others are raising, or initiating dividend payments. Read the rest of this entry