Dividend Harvesting Portfolio Week 249: $24,900 Allocated, $2,646.53 In Projected Dividends

2025-12-12 08:45:00 ET

This article is coming out a bit late this week as the weekends have become quite hectic for me to write. There is a lot to cover in this article from the Fed meeting, what happened last week, and the Yieldmax MSTR Option Income Strategy ETF ( MSTY ) reverse split. The markets traded sideways last week and the Dividend Harvesting Portfolio declined a bit but nothing major. MSTY conducted a reverse split and I didn’t have enough shares in my account to create a new share so the remaining value was placed in the account as cash. This impacted the total dividend income and I will discuss my thoughts and ramifications in the next section. The Fed ended up cutting rates by 25 bps and this was a different side of Jerome Powell as it wasn’t a hawkish cut as he had a dovish tone to him. He indicated that tariffs are not the root of inflation and that the real question in the beginning of 2026 will be if they cut or hold rates where they are. The Fed Dot Plot remained unchanged but the commentary coming out of the Fed was very bullish for the markets as they indicated that they are expecting 2.3% of GDP growth in 2026 then 2% in 2027 and 1.9% in 2028 which makes the chances of a recession decline significantly. I think that this is ultimately very bullish for the market and even more bullish for the Dividend Harvesting Portfolio. I am excited to continue allocating capital toward this project and building out the portfolio for the foreseeable future....

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