Wall Street's dramatic reaction to DeepSeek's AI announcement on Monday created compelling opportunities in unlikely places. As panic selling wiped out $1 trillion in market value in U.S. tech stocks,

Investors prompted to seek shelter as DeepSeek rocks the stock market may want to skip bonds and seek out dividend stocks. They offer attractive yields without some of the problems lately dogging the fixed-income market.

As global markets experience an upswing, with major indices like the S&P 500 reaching new heights amid optimism over trade policies and AI investments, investors are increasingly looking for stable income sources in a fluctuating economic landscape.

Many stocks don't offer particularly high yields. The stocks in the S&P 500, for instance, average a yield of just 1.3%. That's not a terribly exciting rate of return on dividends for income investors.

The annualized dividend paid by AbbVie is $6.56/share, currently paid in quarterly installments, and its most recent dividend ex-date was on 01/15/2025

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, or simply the Dow, is one of the most well-known and influential stock market indices globally.

However, just because a famous investor owns a stock doesn't mean you should buy it. That said, Coca-Cola does indeed look like it's worth buying right now. Here's why.

After back-to-back years of significant gains for the S&P 500, led by the Magnificent 7 stocks, many of the other 493 stocks in the venerable index have traded sideways to down. The staggering poor breadth of the market at specific points in 2024 rivals some of the biggest in stock market history.