Investing in stocks for current income can be an excellent strategy.  Investors looking for income will often look for companies with high dividend yields, where the dividends are a large percentage of the share price.  However, this can be risky.  A high yield may indicate a company that has a problem; as the stock price has gone down due to selling, the dividend yield has gone up.  Companies with artificially high yields may not keep paying out dividends at the same level.  Depending on an Read more [...]