Senior convertible bonds are offered to institutional investors in an accelerated book building process.

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The third company to declare a payout Monday took a page out of that book, but also followed in the footsteps of Wal-Mart, which accelerated a dividend payment scheduled for early 2013 to get in just under the wire.

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