(Bloomberg) — Dividends from corporate America are poised to tumble this year, but there are pockets of promise for investors looking for safe income, according to strategists at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.While payouts among S&P 500 companies could drop 25% this year, paced by energy and consumer-related companies, banks like Wells Fargo & Co. and drugmakers including Merck & Co. are likely to buck the trend, strategists including Cole Hunter and David Kostin said. The team laid out 40 picks for “income-oriented” investors, with many of them having made payouts for more than two decades without ever lowering distributions.These stocks …read more
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