2017 marked something of a turnaround for the fate of dividends paid by publicly-traded companies throughout the year. What had been a multi-year declining trend for the U.S. stock market since mid-2014 appeared to bottom out between March and June 2017, before reversing into an improving trend throughout the rest of the year.
Let’s drill down into December 2017’s numbers, before we comment on some unique developments in the last month of the year that was.
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