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Is Pfizer’s 5.7% Dividend Yield Worth the Risk?

High-yield dividend stocks offer two key benefits. They provide regular cash flow through dividend payments and, when dividends are consistently reinvested, have often outperformed the S&P 500 over extended periods. High yields, however, warrant scrutiny. They often result from falling share prices or overly generous payout policies. The payout ratio, …

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Stephen Hawking Was Wrong—Extremal Black Holes Are Possible

Now two mathematicians have proved Hawking and his colleagues wrong. The new work—contained in a pair of recent papers by Christoph Kehle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ryan Unger of Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley—demonstrates that there is nothing in our known laws of physics to prevent the formation of an extremal …

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