Deep Dive: These income strategies can help protect your stock investments from inflation and a recession

There is always uncertainty in the stock market, but the deflationary cycle that helped feed tremendous gains over the past several decades has ended. Two related strategies can give you downside protection while still capturing most of the upside potential of stocks.

The two strategies: 1. Selecting stocks of companies that have been increasing their regular dividend payouts rapidly. 2. Augmenting that dividend income through the use of covered call options.

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