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Investing for dividends fell deeply out of favor in the grow-grow 1990s, when the number of companies that pay them declined steadily and the average dividend yield shriveled to just 1.1%. Before this unusual period, an average dividend yield of 3% was considered abysmally low. But with tech stocks in favor and aggressive CEOs reinvesting for earnings growth, the number of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 that paid a dividend sank to just 351 at the end of 2002 from a peak of 469. This decline reversed last year. An improving economy and a new law that...
Indeed, investors seem barely to have noticed. Stocks with a yield rose just half as much as those without a yield in 2003. For example, General Electric, which yields 2.5%, rose 27% last year--in line with the market average. But Lucent, which pays no dividend and barely survived the recession, more than doubled. Lucent's run has extended into the new year--it's up another 38%--while GE is up just...
...next few weeks, a rash of companies will raise their dividends, joining the ranks of Pulitzer, Oxford Industries and others that did so earlier this month. January and February almost always bring an outsize stream of dividend hikes, as companies lock in the good news ahead of their annual shareholder meetings each spring. This new year's burst could be exceptional. After decades in the dustbin, dividends are once again in fashion in corporate boardrooms, and they deserve a prominent place in your portfolio...
...Indo-Pak relations are always vulnerable to somersaults of hope and reality, but there are two reasons for optimism. First, the age of economics has finally reached South Asia. There is a perceptible demand for a better life and the rewards of a peace dividend. Pakistan, in particular, senses that while India is beginning to enter the comfort zone of high growth, its own people might be left out. The cost of confrontation has exceeded tolerance levels...
...This might well have been more directed at Israel than Turkey," says the diplomat. - By Andrew Purvis and Pelin Turgut Peace Dividend FRANCE The National Liberation Front of Corsica-Combatants Union - the island's main separatist rebel group - unexpectedly announced a unilateral cease-fire. Other groups trying to form a joint list of nationalist candidates for regional elections in March had called for an end to violence. Dissolving Democracy SERBIA-MONTENEGRO The beleaguered government of Serbia, weakened by infighting and allegations of corruption, dissolved its parliament and called elections for December, a year early. The third attempt in just over...