I'm your host Kim Kahn and today my guest is Steve Kress, the head of Quant Strategy at Seeking Alpha.

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Wall Street lunch up at noon. So Steve you've got a new article out for us that came out

on dividends it's called

Dive into dividends the 14 must have stocks when markets dip and looking over all the

market landscape we've got this big sovereign bond selloff that's starting to

impact stocks it's starting to impact corporate

credit we've also got high oil prices so I kind of wanted to ask you how companies are looking

at with respect to dividends what we're seeing in the markets right now?

Well I have to say I wrote the article because I actually liked the market now.

I like this October period and with tradition people know that when you get into sort of the September

October period markets tend to cut off and this year has not let us down since mid

July we've seen markets come off,

and it seems to be picking up steam.

I'm not sure if we're at capitulation yet.

There could be a little bit more to go.

But for me, it's ideal to picking up stocks here as well as dividend stocks because the dividend

stocks have come off as well. Basically what I'm seeing is, you know, there are investors who are currently chasing high dividend yield stocks, and I do want to put a warning out there that chasing high dividend yield stocks could be an increased risk.

Now, as much as I like buying the market at these levels,

you definitely have to be leery based

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