Big Dividend for Lone Star
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The U.S. buyout firm whose sale of Korea Exchange Bank was blocked by a corruption investigation, will collect $445 million in dividends from the bank.
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More than 40% of the market's long-haul returns have come from dividends.
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NEW YORK, October 25  - TXU Corporation (TXU.NYS) has announced a new $50 million share buyback programme, while more than tripling its quarterly dividend payout, leading to an annual rate of $2.
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A larger dividend, more stock buybacks, and a new CEO -- oh my!
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The business development company makes a rare share repurchase.
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Let's take a quick peek at companies that just hiked their dividends.
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McDonald's Corp. MCD.N on Wednesday   raised its annual dividend 49 percent to $1 a share as the   world's largest restaurant companies push to return more cash   to shareholders.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- With its stock down 26 percent this year, Texas Instruments boosted its quarterly dividend payment to 2.5 cents a share and set a $1 billion stock repurchase plan, the chipmaker announced late Thursday.
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Molson Inc., Canada&#39;s biggest beermaker, said it will pay minority shareholders a special dividend to overcome opposition to its planned C$3.
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Texas Instruments Inc., the  largest maker of chips for cellular phones, on Thursday said it  plans to buy back $1 billion in stock and boost its quarterly  dividend by more than 17 percent, becoming the latest  technology company to return extra cash to investors.
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Ahold today announced it has entered into an agreement to sell its US retail subsidiaries BI-LO and Brunoâs to an affiliate of the Lone Star Funds for total cash proceeds of up to $660 million.
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McDonald's Corp.  on Tuesday raised its annual dividend 38 percent, a move the world's largest restaurant chain said is another sign of its revitalization.
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Hollinger International, the US publishing group which this year ousted Conrad Black as its chairman, has declared a special dividend following the sale earlier this year of The Telegraph Group, its flagship newspaper asset.
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Prosecutors indicted a Korean bank and a Belgium-based holding company owned by Lone Star Funds, an American private equity group, on charges of stock price manipulation in connection with Lone StarÂs 2003 acquisition of the bank. Lone StarÂs vice chairman, Ellis Short, and its general counsel, Michael Thomson, already face charges of spreading false information to weaken the stock price of the Korea Exchange BankÂs credit card unit before it was bought by Lone Star. The new charges are against the bank and LSF-KEB Holdings, a paper company based in Brussels that Lone Star set up in 2003 to take over the bank, according to Chae Dong-wook, a senior prosecutor. Officials of the bank and other Lone Star officials declined to comment.
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TORONTO (CP) - Hollinger International Inc. announced plans Thursday for a special dividend to distribute $227 million US from the sale of the Telegraph newspaper group and may buy $273 million worth of its own stock through a tender offer.
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One new stock has left quite a footprint.
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Shares of Accredited Home Lenders Holding rose as much as 41.2 percent after Lone Star Funds made a revised offer for the subprime lender.