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Mining giants promised bumper payouts to investors after a surge in commodity prices that has fuelled talk of a new ‘supercycle’. BHP will pay shareholders a record half-year dividend of 72p per share after a rally in iron ore prices helped profits rise 17 per cent to £7billion. It means that the world’s biggest miner … Read more
LAW DEBENTURE: The dividends keep flowing at £773m investment trust By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 6 February 2021 | Updated: 10:34 GMT, 7 February 2021 Investment trust Law Debenture will soon announce the final quarterly dividend payment to shareholders for its 2020 financial year. Although it refuses to reveal … Read more
Are YOU due a cut of £3bn in lost shares and dividends? By Rachel Rickard Straus, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:53 GMT, 23 January 2021 | Updated: 21:53 GMT, 23 January 2021 When Julia Martin received a phone call last week about unclaimed shares belonging to her father, it came as a bolt out … Read more
Victoria and David Beckham have been reaping the rewards of their empire as a new company filing reveals they paid themselves £14.5million in dividends. Victoria’s fashion house also more than halved its losses on the year prior, according to a Companies House report from the year ending December 2019. In the year before the coronavirus pandemic hit, it appears … Read more
Investors in the leading banks have endured a hair-raising year. At times, Lloyds, NatWest, Barclays and HSBC have seen their share prices dwindle to under half what they were 12 months ago. But are they now turning a corner? Banks were this month given the green light to restart paying dividends – a huge relief … Read more
Investors in FTSE 100 companies had a tough year as more than half of those firms cut, deferred or cancelled over £37billion of dividend payments in response to the Covid crisis, new research shows. But while dividend cuts have been the story of 2020, the outlook for 2021 is more positive, according to analysts – especially … Read more
Investors in the money as watchdog lifts bank dividends ban after lenders post better-than-expected profits By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 10 December 2020 | Updated: 21:59 GMT, 10 December 2020 Investors in UK banks will be breathing a sigh of relief after the regulator lifted its ban on dividends. The … Read more
STOCKS TO WATCH: Will Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey reprieve bank dividends? By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 5 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 5 December 2020 It’s almost a year since Andrew Bailey was named as the new Governor of the Bank of England. His Covid baptism of … Read more
Bosses of five lockdown winners received £45m in dividends after firms’ profits were fuelled by big tax breaks Retailers and hospitality firms were handed £10billion of business rates relief this year Critics say shops which are lockdown winners should pay the tax break back By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 29 … Read more
Hedge fund tycoon Jeremy Hosking calls on bank bosses to defend dividends after payouts were suspended in March By Emma Dunkley, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 31 October 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 31 October 2020 Hedge fund tycoon Jeremy Hosking has called on bank bosses to defend dividends after payouts were suspended … Read more