As a dividend income investor I am always on the lookout for new dividend opportunities to consider adding to my current stock portfolio.

September E-mini S&Ps (ESU14 +0.15%) this morning are up +0.09% at a 2-1/2 week high and European stocks are up +0.44% at a 2-week high on reduced tensions in Ukraine along with stronger-than-expected stock earnings results.

Isolated dividend growth backtested to 1999 shows 150% growth, McHeffey explained. This compares to a 119% in dividends, and a 50% rise in the stock prices of the index. You probably will not have to construct this portfolio by yourself as there will be an ETF soon, I believe.

Today's Financial Times reports about what will probably be the ultimate digital virtual currency, and it ain't bitcoin. It is a mobile-phone text-based payments system invented in sub-Saharan Africa called M-Pesa.

There's an old French proverb that says: Achetez aux canons, vendez aux clarions. That's "buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets."