Since January, 136 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index have either increased their payouts or initiated new dividends, collectively bolstering payments by $11 billion this year.
Hitting dividends indicates that few companies are prepared to dip into reserves to bolster payments.
(Near the end of fiscal year 2008, Delaware received a single surprise $63 million corporate income tax payment, bolstering its state budget by 1.5percentt). Kansas will be able to soften the budget blow with extra corporate tax revenue from this quarter, but it can't count on a continuing corporate tax surge to offset the continuing loss in personal income tax receipts.
Many have also bolstered dividend payments in order to please their shareholders.
With unemployment at a record 5.7%, the pressure on Hatoyama to stem layoffs and bolster welfare payments is intense.
The move will bolster Citigroup's payment collection abilities, giving it a special servicing ability and a bigger presence to help weather the expected surge in delinquencies and foreclosures from a housing slump.
Uber describes the acquisition as a marriage of its "global leadership and technical expertise with Careem's regional technology infrastructure and proven ability to develop innovative local solutions", suggesting the acquisition will support enable the pair to offer "diverse mobility, delivery and payment options", while bolstering regional transportation infrastructure "at scale".
They are like fine art paintings or classic cars". Tim Yeo, the shadow rural affairs spokesman, said the high compensation payments bolstered the case for a public inquiry into the outbreak.
Despite austerity, the state pension has been bolstered, winter fuel payments are outside the reach of means testing, and free bus pass and TV licence retained for the elderly.
More ominously, it ordered the state to limit, within six months, the impact of rising pension payments on the budget, while bolstering funding for the system.
As Square's payment processing run rate has grown — bolstering its revenue in near lockstep — so too has its valuation expanded.
