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Junk Bond Spreads Continue to Tighten, Another Yield Bubble Starting to Form

Posted: January 11, 2013 at 10:31 am

If the spread of junk bonds keeps contracting as investors clamor for yield in an environment where yields are so low, they are going to be priced where investment-grade bonds ...
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Ford Blows the Doors Off — Doubling Its Dividend

Posted: January 10, 2013 at 9:12 am

Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is trying to take away some of the thunder from General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), now that GM is losing its "Government Motors" nickname. The ...
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GE Increases Dividend, Share Buybacks

Posted: December 14, 2012 at 2:21 pm

For the fifth time in three years, General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is raising its quarterly dividend. This time by $0.02 to $0.19 a share, almost double its level following ...
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Intel to Launch Note Offering and Aggressively Repurchase Shares

Posted: December 4, 2012 at 9:53 am

Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) has filed its automatic shelf registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission. While these are normally just open shelf filings, Intel has already added another ...
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Oracle Speeds Up Tiny Dividends

Posted: December 3, 2012 at 4:32 pm

Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced after markets closed today that it would accelerate its dividend payments for the second, third and fourth quarters of its 2013 fiscal year. The company ...
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Special Dividends Now Well Over $20 Billion … Much More to Come

Posted: November 30, 2012 at 1:44 pm

The rate of special dividends from large great American companies is coming at an alarming rate. If the politicos in Washington D.C. are not paying attention to this about how ...
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Costco Jumps on the Special Dividend Wagon

Posted: November 28, 2012 at 6:49 am

Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST) became the most recent company to pay out a special dividend to help its investors keep more money if taxes go up at the start ...
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Dividend Comes Early for Walmart Shareholders

Posted: November 19, 2012 at 1:08 pm

Wal-mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) announced this morning that its board of directors has approved a change to the payment date for the company’s fourth-quarter dividend. The new date is ...
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Special Dividend from Westlake Chemical

Posted: November 19, 2012 at 8:04 am

One way to cushion the shareholders’ presumed fall of the fiscal cliff is to distribute some cash now, before the tax on dividends jumps. Westlake Chemical Corp. (NYSE: WLK) is ...
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Verizon Wireless Issues $8.5 Billion Dividend

Posted: November 12, 2012 at 7:19 pm

The management and shareholders of Vodafone, the minority shareholder of Verizon Wireless had a good day. The largest cellular carrier in the U.S. issued an $8.5 billion dividend to its ...
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Short Sellers Change Bets Against High-Yield Dividend Stocks (MO, AEP, NLY, T, DUK, KMB, KMP, MRK, PG, RAI, VZ)

Posted: November 12, 2012 at 10:35 am

Short sellers took into consideration that taxes will be going up for many dividend investors. We have tracked the changes in the October 31 settlement date, versus the October 15 ...
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Five Big Dividend Hikes Expected Very Soon

Posted: November 6, 2012 at 6:20 am

Dividend stocks may have come under some pressure of late, but this is due to the demand for high dividends getting a bit crowded and ahead of the election. It ...
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Five Companies That Have to Raise Dividends

Posted: October 22, 2012 at 6:35 am

Companies institute or raise dividends for several reasons. One, the most striking example of which is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), is to return money to shareholders from balance sheets laden ...
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Four Bullet-Proof Dividends for a Dangerous Q4

Posted: October 15, 2012 at 6:25 am

Economists and researchers believe data for the fourth quarter demonstrate that the fiscal cliff could hammer growth between now and year's end. If so, the stock market may take a steep tumble ...
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Great American Companies That Will Survive the Fiscal Cliff

Posted: October 8, 2012 at 9:07 am

The coming fiscal cliff represents a huge hurdle for America. Government and private sector forecasters have warned that the expiration of tax cuts, along with hundreds of billions of dollars ...
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