A Slow First Quarter for Dividend Increases
April 01, 2015 at 14:37 PM EDT
Dividends paid by S&P 500 member firms rose in the first quarter with companies from the benchmark U.S. index having paid out $93.6 billion in dividends as of March 27. However, dividend growth slowed in the first three months of the year. Net dividend increases rose $12.6 billion in the first...