From Standard & Poor's:
"...fewer than 200 publicly owned U.S. companies in the index raised dividends in the quarter to Sept. 30, marking the worst third quarter for dividend increases. S&P said 191 out of about 7,000 publicly owned companies raised dividend payments, down 44.8 percent from a year ago.
The number of issues for dividend cuts rose to 113 in the quarter, the highest since the same quarter of 1982. The ratio of increases to decreases came close to one-to-one, compared to the average of 15 increases for every decrease.
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