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...Labour reached its use-by date? It may simply be that New Zealand politics is becoming a more unpredictable game or, as Deputy P.M. and Finance Minister Michael Cullen argues, that Kiwis now expect a larger pay-off after the hard years of restructuring: "'Where's my dividend?' people say. Well, we need to move along a steady path and not blow it all at once. We will target our Budget surplus toward spending on public services and investment in infrastructure...
...Cramer dishes up buy or sell advice for dozens of stocks every night. He occasionally contradicts himself, as he did with Citigroup, when he gushed over the stock's dividend a few weeks after saying the stock was "broke." "I find it, from a financial viewpoint, embarrassing," says John Markese, president of the American Association of Individual Investors. "He's the financial Jerry Springer...
TIME This merger is paying a nice dividend to the Ricketts family. [Founder Joe Ricketts and his wife Marlene stand to gain $804 million.] I think he should take you out to lunch...
...flip side: if the company can't find investment opportunities for all that cash, then why not hand it over to shareholders? ExxonMobil already gives its investors a hefty payout: last year it returned some $15 billion in the form of dividends and share buybacks. The company recently increased its dividend 7% and announced that it would accelerate its share buybacks by $1 billion a quarter, to $3.5 billion. At that rate, ExxonMobil could repurchase some $14 billion in stock by year-end. That's no small number, yet the company has the capacity to share even more...
Power attracts money, and even Communist countries have fattened diplomatic expense accounts and come to the party. That's the dividend: it's better to eat and talk than starve and fight...