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Yet, lo and behold! This September, the index exhibits a rather improbable vitality; it has crested by 1.9% as of late. But, dear reader, let us not indulge in premature exultation; over two weeks yet remain, and with them lie the potent specters of wild fluctuations, either soaring higher on angel wings or plummeting earthward with a tragic grace. Hence, we are beckoned to ponder: Is it truly prudent to acquire stocks in this month of warm breezes and waning sun? Let us embark on this intellectual voyage.

So, here we are, just a few weeks ago, Verizon turned in results that caused the market to pause-did I hear “better than expected”? Well, yes. And just like that, they nudged their full-year outlook upwards. Investors can finally see a little more clearly the spectacle of balancing growth spending against shareholder returns. The question lingers though, like an awkward silence-is this juicy high yield an actual gift or just a mirage of a value trap?

Some investors have tried to ride Buffett’s coattails, buying financial or consumer staples like a child clutching a security blanket. It worked, for a time. But now, even at 95-set to retire, never particularly tech-savvy-Buffett is betting on artificial intelligence. A man who once said, “Technology is like a loaded gun. You don’t know what to do with it,” now wagers $68 billion on two AI stocks. The universe is a comedy.

Deploying $35,000 across two Dividend Kings-Altria Group and Target-could theoretically yield $20,000 annually in dividends within a decade, contingent upon sustained earnings power and disciplined capital allocation. Below, we dissect the strategic rationale and operational dynamics underpinning this approach.

Energy demand? A fleeting dream. The world’s a fickle lover, and oil‘s not the only game in town anymore. But the article’s heroes-TotalEnergies, Chevron, Energy Transfer-these are not saviors. They’re relics in a dying empire, clutching at clean energy like a drunkard’s last bottle.

Consider Broadcom, that venerable titan of silicon and software, whose shares have ascended like a phoenix from the ashes of earnings reports. Its third-quarter results, a tapestry of 22% revenue growth and a 67% EBITDA margin, seem to whisper of a world where AI accelerators are not mere chips, but sentient beings with a penchant for arithmetic. Yet, the stock trades at 58 times its trailing-12-month earnings-a price that would make even the most seasoned trader’s head spin like a dervish. One might wonder if the market has mistaken a ledger for a holy scripture.

Yet in this decline, a curious paradox emerges. Energy Transfer’s dividend, a sonorous note in the cacophony of financial uncertainty, sings with a yield surpassing 7.5%, a melody sixfold the S&P 500’s average. One might argue it is not the stock’s ascent that captivates, but the steadfastness of its payout-a relic of an era when capital spoke in certainties rather than conjectures.