{"id":76720,"date":"2019-01-21T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/21\/shareholders-received-record-dividends-of-almost-100bn-in-2018\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T01:01:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T00:01:08","slug":"shareholders-received-record-dividends-of-almost-100bn-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=76720","title":{"rendered":"Shareholders received record dividends of almost \u00a3100bn in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But Brexit could take a bite out of future returns from UK-listed companies, says reportUK-listed firms paid record dividends last year, thanks to rising profits, but a report warns that shareholder payouts could take a big hit if Brexit goes badly.Companies listed on the UK\u2019s main market shelled out \u00a399.8bn in dividends over 2018, marking a 5.1% rise from a year earlier, according to the latest dividend monitor report by Link Asset Services. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/jan\/21\/shareholders-received-record-dividends-of-almost-100bn-in-2018-brexit\" target=\"_blank\">Shareholders received record dividends of almost \u00a3100bn in 2018<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Brexit could take a bite out of future returns from UK-listed companies, says reportUK-listed firms paid record dividends last year, thanks to rising profits, but a report warns that shareholder payouts could take a big hit if Brexit goes badly.Companies listed on the UK\u2019s main market shelled out \u00a399.8bn [&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-76720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76720","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=76720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}