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Three companies announced 5.88% to 21.43% boosts to their quarterly dividends on March 1, 2017, with the earliest ex-dividend date on March 8, 2017. In addition to the dividend boosts, current share prices of all three companies are at least 25% higher than their respective 52-week lows that occurred in 2016. The companies also have rewarded their stockholders with steady…

Apollo Global Management LLC (NYSE:APO) has sold a high quality, non-cumulative preferred stock with a coupon of 6.375%. APO is a large manager of assets with total assets under management of $192 billion dollars. They have grown assets under management at a annual rate of 22% since 2005.  Apollo holds dozens of companies in their portfolio and these are companies…

Three equities recently declared quarterly dividend boosts to continue a record of increasing annual payments to between 15 and 40 consecutive years. In addition to the decades-long record of rising dividends, the current share prices of all three equities are between 9% and 42% higher than their respective 52-week lows. Their Dividend yields range from 2.4% to 3.6%. SCANA Corporation…

Date Issued  2/28/2017 Shares Issued  10,000,000   Overallotment  1,500,000 S&P Rating  BBB+   Moodys Rating   NR   Fitch   BBB Security Ticker Symbol   APO-A  OTC Grey Market  APLMP Market Traded ON   NYSE Dividend Payment Paid on the 15th of March, June, September and December beginning on 6/15/2017 Quarterly Dividend   .398   Annual Dividend   1.594 Securities may be redeemed, at the…

You can tell that we are having serious concerns about the possibilities of an interest rate hike on March 15th (the end of the March FOMC meeting) as this is the 2nd time in 2 weeks we have written about interest rates.   We have been rooting for a rate hike for some time now and we think there may…