These then morphed into "banks for bankers" - clearing houses which would mop up liquidity among the middle and upper classes and spread it through the private banking system (in the lobby of the Bank of England there is a nice painting of the English bourgeoisie queuing up at Threadneedle Street on Dividend Day by George Elgar Hicks).
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Back in the day when dividend taxes were even higher than they are set to be in 2013, some corporate chieftains got very good at retiring shares.
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In January, at an investor's conference one day before its ex-dividend date, Verizon indicated that the 2009 full-year earnings it was soon to report would fall short of analysts' estimates.
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The move comes in the first trading day after having announced its own special dividend.
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MBIA, however, paid investors back by eliminating its 34-cent-a-share quarterly dividend shortly after the stock market closed for the day, according to TradeTheNews.com.
As if that weren't enough, Carnival gave shareholders a Halloween scare by suspending its dividend indefinitely, sending its stock down 12% in a day.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, PM and MAS collectively make up 2.32% of the Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM) which is relatively unchanged on the day Thursday.
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