Archive for July, 2008

Tough time to be a Dividend Investor

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Standard & Poor’s said 97 publicly traded companies decreased their dividend during the second quarter of 2008. This is a nearly five-fold increase from last year’s second quarter. The 97 declines in the quarter is the most since 1990, when 108 issues decreased their dividend.
On a dollar basis, Financials and Consumer Discretionary stocks, had […]

GGP ex-dividend on 7/15 (1.5%)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

General Growth Properties will pay a regular quarterly dividend of $0.500 on Jul 31st to holders as of Tuesday, July 15. The current dividend represents an increase of 11 percent over the comparable period one year ago.