12 Quotes by Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Searching for diversified yields, both in and outside the U.S., is the way to go. Many investors have discovered this.

One of the things that I like to say about the names that I choose is that the strong will get stronger, ... Those are the kinds of companies that we buy in our fund, and I think that as we move into a growth slowdown, the kinds of companies that are reliable in their earnings and revenue growth rates, will become more dear, and investors will be willing to pay up.

More companies in the tech sector are instituting and raising dividends. That's good for investors who are value oriented and realize that a dividend is a piece of a return,

I would say that for the next several weeks, earnings and the earnings outlook probably will be the most important things weighing on us.

Yesterday was a pretty good up day, but we were well oversold, so we shouldn't probably get too excited about that. This is just the beginning of the heavy earnings results from the third quarter, and from everything we're seeing so far, the results are pretty mixed, but guidance in general is kind of cautious for the fourth quarter.

The expectation was that first-quarter earnings and commentary would show us that conditions are bad, but with the exception of a few high-profile disappointments, the commentary has been mild to better.

Technology is either beloved or beleaguered, if you've noticed over the last several years. It's just a leadership group. And so when they're beloved, everybody thinks we need to buy them. When they're beleaguered, everybody thinks we need to sell. I think technology is one of the big huge piece of our economy and will continue to be a big piece of the economy in the S&P.

It's mid-2005, and we're having a mid-cycle slowdown, not a recession. The problem is this bull market is old, the Fed is tightening and inflation, though benign, is going in the wrong direction.