10 High-Yield 'Dividend Aristocrats' To Buy Now

Valued at over $3 billion each, these mega-sized blue-chip companies have managed to pay out dividends for decades. Some have paid a dividend for the past century or even longer.
But to earn their coveted status, they've had to increase their dividend every year for the past 25 years. And to keep the status, they have to keep paying a larger dividend every year from now on -- no easy feat.
That's why only 54 out of the 500 stocks in the S&P 500 have made the cut.  (more)

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David Gurwitz – Lows Coming in Silver and Gold

from Financial Survival Network
David Gurwitz of Charles Nenner Research says the cycles never lie. He sees stock markets topping around the world and gold and silver putting in their bottoms before beginning their inexorable rises. Oil is going up with an intermediate target of $122 per barrel. Natural Gas is another story. The war cycle is picking up steam. Every 100 hundred years there’s a big one, just go back in history. Cycles seem to control everything, so the next time someone’s carrying on about free will, just point to the stars.
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The Euro Is About To Collapse

Two weeks ago I started to get all excited about the US Dollar Index. With the amount of pessimism in this market, the key reversal day on May 8th came at the perfect place and perfect time. But simultaneously, the $EURUSD confirmed a failed breakout and key reversal day to the downside. I believe the selling in this market continues.
Here is a weekly chart of $EURUSD going back to the 2008 all-time highs. I first brought up this chart two months ago, but the currency continues to struggle at this level. Look at the failed breakout and quick reversal:

Now take a look at a shorter-term chart. Look at that key reversal day on May 8th. Prices hit the highest levels since 2011 on an intraday basis, and then reversed course to go out at the lows. The selling continued after that confirming the failed breakout:

The problem I see with EURO is that we have failed breakdowns on multiple time frames and at multiple resistance levels. On the weekly chart, we have a multi-year downtrend line that it failed to take out. On the daily chart, we have horizontal resistance that it failed break. This is not good. I would expect further downside in this market.
To me that’s great for US Dollars as the Euro represents 60% of the US Dollar Index. A sell-off here would give the greenback a major boost.
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Emerson Electric Co. (NYSE: EMR)

Emerson Electric Co., a diversified technology company, designs and supplies products and technology, and delivers engineering services and solutions to the industrial, commercial, and consumer markets worldwide. The company was formerly known as The Emerson Electric Manufacturing Company and changed its name to Emerson Electric Co. in 2000. Emerson Electric Co. was founded in 1890 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
Please take a look at the 1 yr. chart of EMR (Emerson Electric, Co.) that I have shown below with my added notations:

EMR had formed a nicely defined up-channel over the last 3 months. A channel is formed through the combination of a trend line support that runs parallel to a trend line resistance. When it comes to a channel any (3) points can start the channel, but it’s the 4th test and beyond that confirm it. You can see that EMR has multiple test points between the channel resistance (red) and the channel support (blue). Yesterday EMR broke the channel support and should be moving lower from here.

The Tale of the Tape: EMR broke out of the bottom up its up-channel. A short trade could be entered on any rallies up to the previous channel support. That line currently sits just above $67.
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The Last Time The Market Was This Short, Stocks Crashed

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 05/22/2014 13:43 
It is common knowledge among those that prefer to see the glass of aggregate demand always half-full (in need of fiscal or monetary stimulus and thus always time to BTFD) that stocks “climb a wall of worry” and that stocks can’t drop if so many people are negative. However, while we are sorry to steal the jam from their exuberant ‘cash on the sidelines’ donut, the truth is that eventually ‘strong hand’ short positions build to a point where they dominate and provide the tipping point of weakness in stocks. As Goldman Sachs highlights in the following two charts of short interest ratio (days to cover) and aggregate short interest (dollars), the last time there was this much money short was mid-2007… and that didn’t end well.
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