Altria (NYSE: MO) has long been regarded as a top dividend stock and it's easy to see why. The domestic Marlboro maker has raised its quarterly dividends 57 times over the last 53 years, making it a Dividend King. Because of its payout-hiking track record, Altria was the best stock to own for a nearly 50-year period from 1968 to 2015, if you had reinvested the dividends.
Alphabet jumped 11.5% in premarket trading after the Google-parent announced its first-ever dividend, a $70 billion stock buyback and beat estimates for first-quarter results. Lifting sentiment further, Microsoft gained 4% on beating Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue and profit, driven by gains from AI adoption across its cloud services. Other growth stocks also rose on the results, with Amazon.com and Nvidia up 3.1% and 1.3%, respectively.
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U.S. stock index futures advanced on Friday as megacap growth shares rebounded on the back of robust quarterly results from Alphabet and Microsoft, while investors awaited a key inflation print that could help shape U.S. monetary policy. Alphabet jumped 11.5% in premarket trading after the Google-parent announced its first-ever dividend, a $70 billion stock buyback and beat estimates for first-quarter results.
Travis Kelce is “comfortable” being in the global spotlight. The 34-year-old Kansas City Chiefs tight end started making worldwide headlines after his girlfriend Taylor Swift, 34, made their relationship public by turning up in September to support him at one of his NFL games, and he’s now said he is coping well with his newfound level if fame – thanks to home videos he shot as a child. He told Extra as he talked about gearing up to host Prime Video’s ‘Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?’ show: “I
Bryce Dallas Howard "can't be trusted around famous people" because she's so easily star-struck. The 'Jurassic World' star has admitted that despite growing up in showbusiness with her famous father Ron Howard, she still finds herself acting like a "fangirl" whenever she meets someone she recognises and it gets "embarrassing". She told the Guardian newspaper: "I get starstruck extremely easily and it’s embarrassing. I blush, I stutter, I say weird things. I get like too excited. "I act like a fa
John Lydon feels "terrifically lonely" following the death of his wife Nora. The 68-year-old punk icon - known as Johnny Rotten during his heyday with the Sex Pistols - nursed his wife Nora Forster through the last years of her life as she battled Alzheimer's disease prior to her death in 2023 and he's now confessed it's not the same at home in Malibu, California, without her. He told The Sunday Times newspaper: "I bounce about in the day but the loneliness of Nora not being here kills me." John
Lewis Capaldi is said to be aiming to put together a celebrity football team. The ‘Someone You Loved’ singer, 27, recently moved into a new £3 million home in north London and sources at his favourite local pub have reportedly said the self-proclaimed “Scottish Beyoncé” is such a hit with local residents and famous faces in the area he has enough friends to put together a squad. An insider added to The Sun: “Lewis has found a home for life here and everyone loves him. “He is a regular in a few o
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker will answer more questions about his efforts to suppress damaging information about Donald Trump during the 2016 election, as the former president's criminal hush-money trial continues on Friday. Pecker, 72, will face questioning from Trump's lawyers, who have sought to illustrate that the tabloid's practice of burying unflattering stories about famous people was well established before Trump ran for president. Pecker previously testified that he worked as Trump's "eyes and ears" to suppress stories which could have hurt the businessman-turned-politician's presidential bid at a time when he was facing multiple accusations of sexual misbehavior.
Seoul, South Korea, April 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GRAVITY Co., Ltd. (NasdaqGM: GRVY) (“Gravity” or the “Company”) today announced that the Company filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 26, 2024. The annual report can be accessed on the Company’s investor relations Web site at https://www.gravity.co.kr/en/ir/notice The shareholders and ADS holders of Gravity may receive a hard copy of the annual r
Production facility in Silver Springs, Nevada is the first zero-landfill photovoltaic recycling centerVIRGINIA CITY, Nev., April 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Comstock Inc. (NYSE: LODE) (“Comstock”) today announced Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) toured Comstock Metals’ first solar panel recycling facility in Silver Springs, Nevada to highlight the state’s growing clean energy economy and strong job growth in the region. “We are very appreciative of Senator Cortez Masto’s support and thank
The second-largest U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility has been running below 80% of its capacity due to technical problems, data from financial firm LSEG showed, denting U.S. exports. Since Jan. 15, Freeport LNG's Quintana, Texas, liquefaction plant has been operating without at least one of its three gas-processing trains. On Thursday, it took in 61 million cubic feet (mcf) of gas, compared to its capacity for 2.2 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd), LSEG data showed.
OSLO, Norway, April 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nel ASA (Nel, OSE:NEL) partners with Hy Stor Energy on the Mississippi Clean Hydrogen Hub (MCHH) and receives a capacity reservation for more than 1 gigawatt of alkaline electrolysers. “We are thrilled to partner with Hy Stor Energy on the Mississippi Clean Hydrogen Hub. This project can enable significant carbon emission reductions and leave in its wake a blueprint for successful, large-scale green hydrogen projects,” said Nel’s President and CEO
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif., April 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ensign Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENSG), the parent company of the EnsignTM group of companies, which invest in and provide skilled nursing and senior living services, physical, occupational and speech therapies, other rehabilitative and healthcare services, and real estate, announced today that it expects to issue its first quarter 2024 financial results on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Conference Call Ensign invites current and prospectiv
U.S. and European politicians have raised alarms that their domestic auto industries could be destroyed by a wave of cheap Chinese electric vehicles. The goal: to rake in hefty profit margins the automaker can’t get in China amid fierce competition. In some foreign showrooms, BYD charges more than double — sometimes nearly triple — the price it gets for three key models in China, according to a Reuters review of the automaker’s pricing in five of its biggest export markets.
CHICAGO, April 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Marquette National Corporation (OTCQX: MNAT) today reported net income of $8.5 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2024, compared to net income of $7.4 million for the first three months of 2023. Earnings per share for the first three months of 2024 were $1.93, as compared to income of $1.70 per share for the comparable period in 2023. At March 31, 2024, total assets were $2.163 billion, an increase of $21 million, or 1%, compared to $2.142 billion
Dublin, April 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Methyl Ethyl Ketone Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast 2031 - By Product, Technology, Grade, Application, End-user, Region: (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East and Africa)" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Global MEK market is poised for steady growth, with a projected expansion at a CAGR of 3.6% during the forecast period, offering an incremental o
Laurence Tribe pulled no punches over what he described as a "shameful performance by the court."
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