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Dividends
Big Oil cuts back, but not on dividends
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Stan Alcorn
Feb 2, 2015
ExxonMobil profits are down 21 percent, so company curtails jobs and investments.
Explaining dividend recapitalization
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Paddy Hirsch
Oct 23, 2012
Dividend recapitalization: private equity shenanigans or sound common sense? Sr. Producer Paddy Hirsch explains how it works.
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Apple to buy back $10 billion stock, pay dividend
Mar 19, 2012
Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a conference call today it would start spending down its nearly $100-billion pile of cash with a $10 billion share buyback and a quarterly stock dividend of $2.65 a share.
How to spend a $100 billion: Ask Apple
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Scott Tong
Mar 19, 2012
Apple earns only about 1% interest by hoarding its pile of cash reserves. Today, it announced how it would start earning investor love with a stock buyback and dividends.
Apple, changing to the core, offers dividend
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Heidi Moore
Mar 19, 2012
Apple, after amassing nearly $100 billion in cash, bows to shareholder pressure for a dividend. Investors want Apple to keep growing fast too.
Disney's gift to shareholders signals an improved economy
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Bob Moon
Dec 2, 2011
Disney and other big companies have boosted annual stock dividends lately. Does this mean America's economic crystal ball is clearer? Or do companies simply not have better options to spend the cash they're hoarding?
MID-DAY UPDATE: Nuclear crisis intensifies in Japan, G7 rallies to lower the yen
Mar 18, 2011
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MID-DAY UPDATE: Private sector jobs grow, Obama goes to India and grading the "grader"
Nov 5, 2010
With 151,000 jobs added to the economy in October, we examine where the strongest growth took place. Good news for investors, the Federal Reserve...