Delaware Investments® Global Dividend and Income Fund, Inc. Announces Dividends

Today, Delaware Investments Global Dividend and Income Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”), a New York Stock Exchange-listed closed-end fund trading under the symbol “DGF,” declares a monthly dividend of $0.0575 per share. This dividend is payable August 26, 2011, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 12, 2011. The ex-dividend date will be August 10, 2011.... more

Delaware Investments® Dividend and Income Fund, Inc. Announces Dividends

Today, Delaware Investments Dividend and Income Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”), a New York Stock Exchange-listed closed-end fund trading under the symbol “DDF,” declares a monthly dividend of $0.0575 per share. This dividend is payable August 26, 2011, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 12, 2011. The ex-dividend date will be August 10, 2011.... more

Delaware Enhanced Global Dividend and Income Fund Announces Dividends

Today, Delaware Enhanced Global Dividend and Income Fund (the “Fund”), a New York Stock Exchange-listed closed-end fund trading under the symbol “DEX,” declares a monthly dividend of $0.1025 per share. The dividend is payable August 26, 2011, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 12, 2011. The ex-dividend date will be August 10, 2011.... more

Buckeye Increases Quarterly Dividend

Buckeye Technologies Inc. (NYSE: BKI) announced today that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend in the amount of $0.06 per common share payable on September 15, 2011 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on August 15, 2011. The quarterly dividend represents a 20% increase on the $0.05 per common share paid last quarter.... more

17 Mid-Cap Stocks for Dividend Lovers

In our recent study we have shown that the average return of high dividend yielding stocks was 13.04% between 1927 and 2009. The dividend stocks beat the overall market by an average of 1.36% per year during this period. We prepared a list of 17 mid-cap companies that pay fat dividend checks. All companies on this list have a market capitalization between $2 and $10 billion... more

Kansas City Southern Declares Dividend on 4% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock

Kansas City Southern’s (KCS) (NYSE: KSU) Board of Directors on August 2, 2011 declared a dividend of $0.25 per share on the outstanding KCS 4% non-cumulative preferred stock. The dividend is payable on October 4, 2011 to preferred stockholders of record at the close of business September 12, 2011.... more

Travelers Declares Dividend on Common Shares

The Board of Directors of The Travelers Companies, Inc. today declared a regular quarterly dividend of 41 cents ($0.41) per common share. This dividend is payable September 30, 2011, to shareholders of record as of the close of business September 9, 2011.... more

Delek US Holdings Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

Delek US Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DK), a diversified energy company with assets in the petroleum refining, marketing, supply and retail industries, today announced that its Board of Directors voted to declare a quarterly cash dividend of $0.0375 per share, payable on September 21, 2011, to shareholders of record on August 24, 2011.... more

Highest-Yielding Tech Stocks You'd Actually Want to Own

What's more, reinvesting dividends acts as a "bear-market protector and return accelerator," according to Siegel. The extra shares purchased and accumulated at higher dividend yields during down periods act as a protector in falling markets, and these extra shares rising in value turn into a "return accelerator" when prices rise. As the recent economic crisis illustrated all too well, however, you can't buy just any high-yielding stock. Dividends that get cut or suspended entirely can wreak havoc on a stock price -- and thus, your portfolio. And since today we're dealing with relatively low-yielding/high-volatility tech stocks, we have to be on our toes.... more

First Merchants Corporation Announces Cash Dividend

First Merchants Corporation (Nasdaq: FRME) declared a cash dividend on August 1, 2011 of $0.01 per share, payable on September 19, 2011, to shareholders of record on September 2, 2011. For purposes of broker trading, the ex-date of the cash dividend is August 31, 2011.... more