{"id":140519,"date":"2020-04-17T01:01:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T23:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/17\/400bn-paid-in-dividends-by-uk-companies-before-coronavirus-crisis\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T01:01:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T23:01:20","slug":"400bn-paid-in-dividends-by-uk-companies-before-coronavirus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=140519","title":{"rendered":"\u00a3400bn paid in dividends by UK companies before coronavirus crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinktank urges tough conditions on any taxpayer-funded bailouts of struggling firmsBusiness live blog \u2013 as it happenedBritain\u2019s biggest companies handed out almost half a trillion pounds in dividends and share buybacks in the years before the coronavirus crisis struck, according to a report warning that the scale of the payouts has undermined their resilience.According to research from the Common Wealth thinktank, around \u00a3400bn was paid in dividends and \u00a361bn of cash returned to investors in share buybacks between 2011 and 2018 by the 100 biggest UK companies. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/17\/400bn-paid-in-dividends-by-uk-companies-before-coronavirus-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a3400bn paid in dividends by UK companies before coronavirus crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinktank urges tough conditions on any taxpayer-funded bailouts of struggling firmsBusiness live blog \u2013 as it happenedBritain\u2019s biggest companies handed out almost half a trillion pounds in dividends and share buybacks in the years before the coronavirus crisis struck, according to a report warning that the scale of the payouts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}