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He confirmed, however, that the charity had been relying on U.S. Sugar's dividends, about 2percentt.

Canadian oil trusts have cut their dividends about 29% to reflect the lower oil prices, and yields are still in the 15% range.

(Long-run average annual inflation-adjusted return, counting capital gains and dividends: about 6.8%.) They did, and although the timing appeared terrible — stocks went into a long bear market that lasted until 1982 — the advice eventually paid off.

Farmers who invested the minimum of $20,000 received dividends of about $6,000 each.

Shareholders also agreed to a dividend of about $550 million to be paid in two installments.

It also plans to announce a $2 billion stock buyback and a roughly 30 percent increase in its dividend, to about 21 cents a share.

The new company would borrow money to pay a one-time dividend of about $1.75 billion to Time Warner, making the transaction resemble a sale.

Nortel is a more volatile, growth-oriented stock based on the communications equipment business that pays a relatively small dividend of about 12 cents a share.

The OECD also notes that there is a significant dividend of about 0.2 percentage points of GDP for countries acting collectively rather than going it alone.

The company plans to pay a quarterly cash dividend of about 13 cents per share beginning the first full quarter following completion of the IPO.

The company said it expects to initiate a semiannual cash dividend of about 10 cents a share in the first quarter of its next fiscal year, which begins June 29.