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British Companies To Pay Higher Dividends This Year

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UK-based Capita Asset Services publishes their Dividend Monitor report forecasting the dividend payments of British firms. According to this year’s report, British firms are projected to payout more than £100.0 billion in dividends over the nesxt 12 months. The top dividend-paying British stocks are shown in the table below: Click to enlarge Source: Thanks for the dividends (& the …

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Time To Invest In British Stocks ?

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British equities are lagging in performance over their developed world peers so far this year. The FTSE 100 is up only 9.4% while the S&P 500, Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC-40 are up by 18.5%, 13.3% and 14.4% respectively.The following chart shows the year-to-date performance of FTSE 100 (in blue) against these three major indices: …

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A Short Note on Lloyds Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland

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Lloyds Banking Group (LYG) and Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS) are two of the top five banks based in the U.K. Both these banks used to have solid dividend yields and performed well up until the credit crisis of 2008-09 hit. In order to prevent the banks from collapsing due to heavy losses the British government …

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