Racing to Beat Dividend Cliff
Companies are acting to beat the clock on higher dividend taxes for their shareholders by increasing their 2012 dividends. They are pulling the money to pay them from the funds that they might otherwise have used to pay dividends in the first quarter of 2013.
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