IBM Boosts Dividend And Buyback Plan
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Dow component International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM), the world’s biggest provider of computer services, [...]
Headline-Worth Dividend Increases From The Media Sector
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Media giant Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), buoyed by strength in its film and network businesses, reported [...]
Time Warner Cable Announces 1st Quarter Dividends
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We’ve blogged about Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), the second-largest U.S. cable provider, a couple of times recently, noting that company executives and at [...]
Dividend News For January 26th
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January continues to be a great month in terms of dividend news and Tuesday was a particularly strong day with [...]
Dividend Stock for Time Warner Cable Edge Higher
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Shares of Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) finished the week sharply higher, gaining more than 8% even as the broader market slumped. The stock [...]
Three Months Later, AT&T Answers Verizon’s Dividend Hike
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When Verizon (NYSE: VZ) boosted its dividend in early September, we speculated that rival AT&T (NYSE: T) would probably follow suit at some point this year. After all, the Dow components have illustrious dividend histories and are about as [...]
BCE Dialing Up Dividend Increases
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BCE Inc. (NYSE: BCE), Canada’s largest telecom firm, has really been kind to shareholders since scuttling plans to become a private company in 2008. With Thursday’s news of a 7% dividend hike that will take the annual dividend to $1.74 a share in [...]
Big Changes Afoot For Dividend Aristocrats Index
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There are dozens, if not hundreds of indexes tracking various sectors of the market, but for [...]
Dividend Outlook Should Improve In 2010
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We found a report from Bloomberg News regarding dividends to be fairly encouraging for income investors. The report noted that one in six members of the S&P 500 may raise their next dividend while only two percent of the companies in [...]
Comcast Gets NBC Universal, Shareholders Get A Better Dividend
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Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) finally announced that it has acquired a controlling interest in General Electric’s (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal media business whose assets are worth, by some estimates, $30 billion. Despite that hefty sum, Comcast won’t have to shell out [...]
