{"id":422931,"date":"2010-03-12T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:407149"},"modified":"2010-03-12T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:39:00","slug":"dividend-increases-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/422931","title":{"rendered":"Dividend increases on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of TSX-listed firms raising dividends is no where near the level prior to the market collapse in 2008. But it is improving, says Peter Buchanan, CIBC market strategist. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;So far this year, 17% of TSX dividend announcements have provided increases, he said in a note to clients. &quot;That\u2019s nearly double the level that did so in Q4.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the number of firms that are cutting payouts continues to fall.  <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Buchanan noted that over half of utilities have recently enriched their payouts. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Looking ahead, retailers, capital goods manufacturers and non-energy resource firms (materials) all have unusually high levels of cash, suggesting possible room for dividend increases down the road,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dpett@nationalpost.com%20\">David Pett<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=407149\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of TSX-listed firms raising dividends is no where near the level prior to the market collapse in 2008. But it is improving, says Peter Buchanan, CIBC market strategist. &quot;So far this year, 17% of TSX dividend announcements have provided increases, he said in a note to clients. &quot;That\u2019s nearly double the level that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4060,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}