{"id":856788,"date":"2024-09-18T10:04:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T04:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=856788"},"modified":"2024-09-18T10:19:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T04:49:19","slug":"microsoft-boosts-sp-500-with-2-5-rise-on-new-60-billion-buyback-plan-quarterly-dividend-hiked-by-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/18\/microsoft-boosts-sp-500-with-2-5-rise-on-new-60-billion-buyback-plan-quarterly-dividend-hiked-by-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft boosts S&amp;P 500 with 2.5% rise on new $60 billion buyback plan, quarterly dividend hiked by 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp. announced a 10 per cent increase in its quarterly dividend and introduced a new $60 billion stock buyback program, matching the scale of its repurchase plan from three years ago. The company&#8217;s shares rose by up to 2.4 per cent following the news.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement late Monday, the tech giant revealed that shareholders as of November 21 will receive a quarterly dividend of 83 cents per share, up from the current 75 cents. The new share repurchase program, which has no expiration date, replaces the $60 billion buyback plan announced in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp. announced a 10 per cent increase in its quarterly dividend and introduced a new $60 billion stock buyback program, matching the scale of its repurchase plan from three years ago. The company&#8217;s shares rose by up to 2.4 per cent following the news. In a statement late Monday, the tech giant revealed that shareholders as of November 21 will receive a quarterly dividend of 83 cents per share, up from the current 75 cents. The new share repurchase program, which has no expiration date, replaces the $60 billion buyback plan announced in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}