{"id":148140,"date":"2020-06-14T01:05:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T23:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/14\/as-a-dividend-freeze-sweeps-the-ftse-will-national-grid-power-up-investors\/"},"modified":"2020-06-14T01:05:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T23:05:29","slug":"as-a-dividend-freeze-sweeps-the-ftse-will-national-grid-power-up-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=148140","title":{"rendered":"As a dividend freeze sweeps the FTSE, will National Grid power up investors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of the UK\u2019s high-voltage network may cut returns to shareholders, but don\u2019t bank on itSpare the briefest of thoughts for Britain\u2019s capital-owning classes. FTSE 100 companies are forecast to pay out \u00a39.5bn less in dividends to shareholders for the 2019 trading year, according to investing platform AJ Bell, as the coronavirus crisis ravages their income. That\u2019s 11% less money going to shareholders\u2019 pockets compared with the previous year.Some 48 FTSE 100 firms have announced some kind of reduction to, or suspension of, payments to shareholders, compared with 47 that have kept or increased them since the start of the year, AJ Bell says. Worse is expected, with National Grid\u2019s delayed annual results statement on Thursday the latest date circled in red pen on the calendars of nervous investors. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/jun\/14\/ftse-dividend-freeze-national-grid-investors\" target=\"_blank\">As a dividend freeze sweeps the FTSE, will National Grid power up investors?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of the UK\u2019s high-voltage network may cut returns to shareholders, but don\u2019t bank on itSpare the briefest of thoughts for Britain\u2019s capital-owning classes. FTSE 100 companies are forecast to pay out \u00a39.5bn less in dividends to shareholders for the 2019 trading year, according to investing platform AJ Bell, [&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-148140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148140","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=148140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}