Companies in the Standard & Poors 500 index are set to spend $914 billion US this year on share buybacks and dividends. That figure, based on data compiled by Bloomberg and S&P Dow Jones indexes, represents about 95 per cent of their earnings. The trend of returning money to shareholders comes at a time when companies are putting less into their own capital expansion and returning only a marginal amount more to workers.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 20:15:05 +0000
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