08.26.2009 5:00 pm

Dogs of the Dow seem to have lost their bark

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If you’ve followed the stock market for a while, you’ll remember when the Dogs of the Dow was a popular investment strategy. The idea was that if you bought the 10 highest-yielding stocks among the Dow industrials, you were buying…

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02.17.2009 10:10 am

So much for Ameren as a widows-and-orphans stock

By David Nicklaus

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

There was a time when utility stocks were considered the most conservative of investments, suitable for even widows and orphans. That era is long gone, as Ameren shareholders are finding out this morning.

The stock market, reacting to Friday’s dividend cut…

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Dogs of the Dow seem to have lost their bark

So much for Ameren as a widows-and-orphans stock

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