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Here's your money briefing for Friday, March 21st.

I'm Julia Carpenter for the Wall Street Journal.

Thank you. March 21st. I'm Julia Carpenter for the Wall Street Journal. When the market turns volatile, some savvy investors look for safer alternatives to mitigate risk.

One option is dividend stocks. So I would say this is considered a safer, maybe more boring slice of the stock market.

Something that in the past couple of years I think has looked deeply unglamorous, right,

when we've seen so much growth in so many different parts of the market.

But this is a type of stock that has looked increasingly alluring to investors,

given what we've seen in 2025 so far.

We'll talk with WSJ reporter Hannah Aaron Lang about the pros and cons to this defensive strategy,

plus what you need to know before following suit.

That's after the break.

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