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| | China controls more than 90 percent of the world's refined rare earths and is quietly building a yuan-based payment network, gold vaults in Hong Kong, and cross-border trade deals designed to bypass the dollar.
Meanwhile, a 13-nation pact signed inside the State Department and a flurry of executive orders suggest Trump may be resetting the dollar's foundation entirely, what analyst Porter Stansberry calls the Silicon Dollar, anchored to minerals, energy and AI infrastructure.
The last dollar reset minted over a thousand new millionaires a day.  |
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| Ex-Dividend Stocks for Tuesday, August 25th |
| | Company | Share Price | Amount / Period | Yield | Previous Amount | Payout Ratio | Payable Date | | CDW CDW | $132.51 | $0.63
quarterly | 1.80% | $0.63 | 30.3% | 9/10/26
| | CRAI Charles River Associates | $175.58 | $0.57
quarterly | 1.29% | $0.57 | 30.4% | 9/14/26
| | CRS Carpenter Technology | $477.50 | $0.20
quarterly | 0.15% | $0.20 | 7.6% | 9/3/26
| | JNJ Johnson & Johnson | $273.11 | $1.34
quarterly | 2.17% | $1.34 | 62.1% | 9/8/26
| | MKSI MKS | $269.06 | $0.25
quarterly | 0.31% | $0.25 | 15.9% | 9/3/26
| | PBR Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras | $18.61 | $0.19
special | - | - | 8.6% | 12/29/26
| | PBR Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras | $18.61 | $0.26
special | - | - | 8.6% | 12/1/26
| | PLUS ePlus | $86.26 | $0.27
quarterly | 1.11% | $0.27 | 23.6% | 9/16/26
| | PRU Prudential Financial | $122.67 | $1.40
quarterly | 4.58% | $1.40 | 50.7% | 9/10/26
| | RBA RB Global | $84.06 | $0.33
quarterly | 1.18% | $0.31 | 53.2% | 9/17/26
| | RHI Robert Half | $45.11 | $0.59
quarterly | 6.10% | $0.59 | 205.2% | 9/15/26
| | SPB Spectrum Brands | $88.32 | $0.47
quarterly | 2.08% | $0.47 | 57.3% | 9/22/26
| | WLK Westlake | $76.51 | $0.53
quarterly | 2.68% | $0.53 | -22.1% | 9/10/26
| | Please note you must purchase shares of these companies by the market close today to receive the next dividend payment. |
Central banks bought 289 tonnes of gold last quarter, the most ever recorded in a single quarter. Kazakhstan added 15 tonnes, Uzbekistan 16, and China 33, all with no press conference.
These buyers have access to some of the best economic information on earth, and they are moving in unison. Dylan Jovine of Behind the Markets thinks he knows what they are preparing for, with a key date circled on the calendar: September 30th.  |
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Ex-Dividend Stocks for Wednesday, August 26th |
| | Company | Share Price | Amount / Period | Yield | Previous Amount | Payout Ratio | Payable Date | | CCS Century Communities | $69.55 | $0.32
quarterly | 1.82% | $0.32 | 28.1% | 9/9/26
| | CNK Cinemark | $38.41 | $0.09
quarterly | 0.96% | $0.09 | 21.3% | 9/9/26
| | HL Hecla Mining | $20.39 | $0.00
quarterly | 0.10% | $0.00 | 2.0% | 9/10/26
| | SLF Sun Life Financial | $79.09 | $0.96
quarterly | 3.37% | $0.96 | 66.1% | 9/29/26
| | SPGI S&P Global | $435.38 | $0.97
quarterly | 0.95% | $0.97 | 23.7% | 9/10/26
| | UGP Ultrapar Participacoes | $6.72 | $0.19 | 6.34% | - | 34.4% | 9/14/26
| | VOYA Voya Financial | $99.07 | $0.47
quarterly | 1.87% | $0.47 | 31.7% | 9/28/26
| | Please note you must purchase shares of these companies by the market close tomorrow to receive the next dividend payment. |
Futurist George Gilder - who predicted the smartphone years before the iPhone launched - believes today's AI data centers are already obsolete. Three companies are quietly developing a way to process data that could do in minutes what current server farms do in hours, using up to 90% less energy.
Gilder calls it the 'Trillion Dollar Triangle' - and he thinks it could reshape the AI landscape the same way digital streaming buried Blockbuster.  |
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Ex-Dividend Stocks for Thursday, August 27th |
| | Company | Share Price | Amount / Period | Yield | Previous Amount | Payout Ratio | Payable Date | | ATMU Atmus Filtration Technologies | $48.24 | $0.06
quarterly | 0.47% | $0.06 | 8.4% | 9/9/26
| | EXPE Expedia Group | $339.13 | $0.48
quarterly | 0.60% | $0.48 | 12.0% | 9/17/26
| | FBP First BanCorp. | $28.23 | $0.20
quarterly | 2.90% | $0.20 | 33.8% | 9/11/26
| | H Hyatt Hotels | $180.19 | $0.15
quarterly | 0.34% | $0.15 | 73.2% | 9/10/26
| | LB LandBridge | $86.99 | $0.12
quarterly | 0.59% | $0.12 | 42.5% | 9/10/26
| | MBGL Mobility Global | $19.76 | $0.06
quarterly | 1.22% | - | - | 9/10/26
| | OLN Olin | $17.58 | $0.20
quarterly | 4.19% | $0.20 | -65.0% | 9/11/26
| | PHI PLDT | $19.40 | $0.75 | 7.71% | $0.80 | 50.0% | 9/25/26
| | PSEC Prospect Capital | $2.32 | $0.04
monthly | 15.27% | $0.04 | 840.0% | 9/17/26
| | SOLS Solstice Advanced Mat | $55.36 | $0.08
quarterly | 0.51% | $0.08 | 16.9% | 9/10/26
| | WBI WBI | $31.58 | $0.05
quarterly | 0.59% | $0.05 | 250.0% | 9/10/26
| | XYL Xylem | $114.18 | $0.43
quarterly | 1.43% | $0.43 | 41.0% | 9/24/26
| | YUMC Yum China | $48.85 | $0.29
quarterly | 0.65% | $0.29 | 42.5% | 9/17/26
| | Please note you must purchase shares of these companies by the market close tomorrow to receive the next dividend payment. |
New Dividend Declarations for Monday, August 24th |
| | Company | Share Price | Amount / Period | Yield | Previous Amount | Payout Ratio | Payable Date | | AIN Albany International | $58.41 | $0.28
quarterly | 1.92% | $0.28 | -64.4% | 10/7/26
| | BSCQ Invesco BulletShares 2026 Corporate Bond ETF | $19.51 | $0.06
monthly | 3.81% | $0.06 | - | 8/28/26
| | BSCR Invesco BulletShares 2027 Corporate Bond ETF | $19.60 | $0.07
monthly | 4.25% | $0.07 | - | 8/28/26
| | BSCS Invesco BulletShares 2028 Corporate Bond ETF | $20.32 | $0.08
monthly | 4.52% | $0.08 | - | 8/28/26
| | BSCT Invesco BulletShares 2029 Corporate Bond ETF | $18.50 | $0.07
monthly | 4.55% | $0.07 | - | 8/28/26
| | BSCU Invesco BulletShares 2030 Corporate Bond ETF | $16.50 | $0.07
monthly | 4.75% | - | - | 8/28/26
| | BSCV Invesco BulletShares 2031 Corporate Bond ETF | $16.20 | $0.07
monthly | 4.98% | $0.07 | - | 8/28/26
| | BSCW Invesco BulletShares 2032 Corporate Bond ETF | $20.22 | $0.08
monthly | 5.01% | - | - | 8/28/26
| | BSCX Invesco BulletShares 2033 Corporate Bond ETF | $20.70 | $0.09
monthly | 5.28% | - | - | 8/28/26
| | GOVI Invesco Equal Weight 0-30 Year Treasury ETF | $26.41 | $0.09 | - | - | - | 8/28/26
| | JKHY Jack Henry & Associates | $170.51 | $0.61
quarterly | 1.43% | $0.61 | 35.0% | 9/23/26
| | NSSC NAPCO Security Technologies | $37.59 | $0.17
quarterly | 1.81% | $0.15 | 57.7% | 10/2/26
| | PEY Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF | $25.22 | $0.09
monthly | 4.44% | - | - | 8/28/26
| | QCRH QCR | $100.90 | $0.15
quarterly | 0.59% | $0.10 | 4.7% | 10/5/26
| | VRIG Invesco Variable Rate Investment Grade ETF | $25.05 | $0.09 | - | $0.09 | - | 8/28/26
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| Dividend Stock IdeasThis is a list of companies that meet common criteria that investors use to evaluate dividend stocks. This list contains companies that have dividend yields greater than 3%, payout ratios of less than 75% (or less than 100% for REITs), five-year average annual dividend growth of at least 1.5% and a minimum market cap of $1 billion. |
| | Company | Dividend Yield | Annual Payout | Payout Ratio | Annual Dividend Growth | P/E Ratio | Market Cap | | TBCG TBC Bank Group PLC | 4.15% | GBX 1,067.01 | 41.39% | 5.29% | 1.89 | £2.69K | | FSK FS KKR Capital Corp. | 14.11% | $1.68 | N/A | 1.81% | N/A | $3.29K | | EFC Ellington Financial Inc. | 11.44% | $1.56 | 95.12% | 4.36% | 8.31 | $1.76K | | CIG Comp En De Mn Cemig ADS | 11.53% | $0.22 | 47.83% | 29.20% | 10.24 | $5.49K | | CYRBY Cyrela Brazil Realty SA | 9.68% | $0.44 | 46.81% | 11.38% | 4.99 | $1.76K |
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