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Dividends: U.S. Continuing Descent Toward Recession

Blair31 Wrote: Oct 07, 2012 3:12 PM
With a recession, the party in power, the Democrats in the case of the Senate and the White House, is usually blamed for it.

We have been tracking a new potential indicator of the level of economic distress in the U.S. economy: the number of publicly-traded companies declaring whether they will act to cut their dividends each month. The data is now out for the just completed month of September 2012, which Standard and Poor has published in Excel spreadsheet format, which we've used to update our chart tracking this measure of economic health:

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