The global volume of dividends paid in the second quarter reached a record $544.8 billion. According to the Janus Henderson Global Dividend Index, the amount was an all-time record.
In the second quarter of 2022, the largest payouts were made by banks and financial institutions — almost a quarter of the total amount or $140 billion. This is 15.7% more than in the first quarter of 2022.
Companies in the fuel and energy sector increased their dividends more than others. In the second quarter of 2022, they paid out about $45 billion to shareholders, which is 88% more than in the first quarter of 2022. High energy prices affected the growth.
US companies set a payout record, distributing more than $144 billion to shareholders. European entities accounted for $165.8 billion of the total.
In general, the quarterly increase in global dividend payments amounted to 11.3%.
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The American company Redwire Corporation announced plans to place the first commercial greenhouse in orbit. The company intends to grow plants on the ISS, the launch itself is scheduled no earlier than spring 2023.
The authors of the project say that its goal is to develop systems for growing plants during manned flights to other planets.
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Denmark has limited the increase in rental prices for two years. The country’s government made such a decision to help poor households cope with the rising cost of living, writes Reuters. Now, under the new rules, the cost of rent cannot increase by more than 4% per year. The government’s decision will affect both existing and new leases, as well as rents that have been raised in recent months.
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In the UK, Princess Diana’s Ford Escort RS Turbo was sold at an auction for almost 770,000 euros. She drove him for three years, according to the BBC. The auction was held on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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The authorities of Serbia and the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo have reached an agreement on access documents. This was stated by the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell on Twitter. Kosovo Serbs will now be able to move freely between Kosovo and central Serbia using their identity cards.
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Almost five thousand people died in Spain from the heat this summer. This is four times more than in the same period last year. It is reported that people died either as a result of heat stroke or as a result of an exacerbation of chronic diseases due to high temperatures: in some regions of the country, the air was heated up to 45 ° C.
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Collection of co-founder of Microsoft Corp. Paul Allen will be auctioned by Christie’s in November this year, where more than 150 works of art will be sold for about $1 billion.
Allen, who was the 27th richest person in the world after his death in 2018, was an art collector. In 2016, he was an anonymous buyer of a Claude Monet painting for $81.4 million, an auction record at the time.
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In Japan, a Domino’s courier delivered a pizza to the top of Mount Fuji, 3,776 meters high. It took 5 hours to deliver and the order cost the customer $962. The network writes that “uphill delivery” is a common practice for Japanese couriers, and publishes pictures of other employees conquering the volcano.
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The Minister of Defense of the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) that controls Afghanistan, Mavlavi Muhammad Yaqub Mujahid, said that the number of the armed forces of the movement currently stands at 150,000.
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Nigerian authorities ban white foreign models from appearing in commercials on local TV
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Japanese scientists treated the soil with ethanol and concluded that it helps wheat and rice withstand prolonged droughts. Alcohol changes the work of genes and metabolic chains that control the response of plants to drought.
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India, which cuts or polishes about 90% of the world’s diamonds, is ramping up sales of lab-created gemstones as demand grows in the US and is accepted in other markets. India’s imitation diamond exports jumped about 70% in April-July to $622.7 million, while mined diamond exports fell about 3% to $8.2 billion.
Lab-grown diamonds currently make up a small part of the market — last year India shipped almost $24 billion worth of naturally mined diamonds. However, demand for this much cheaper variety is growing. India accounts for about 15% of the world’s production of artificial diamonds, writes Bloomberg.
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A hospital in Amsterdam was the first in the world to use artificial intelligence for discharge planning. The system will help doctors at a medical center in the capital of the Netherlands decide when a patient can be discharged from the intensive care unit and resuscitation to a regular ward, writes the NL Times portal.
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Lithuania has completed the construction of a fence on the border with Belarus to protect against illegal migrants. The length of the fence was 502 kilometers, according to the portal Delfi. At the same time, the total length of the Lithuanian-Belarusian border is 679 kilometers, but more than 100 of them are in swampy areas, which creates natural obstacles for migrants.
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The Swedish manufacturer of telecom equipment Ericsson will close its representative office in Russia before the end of the year. The company will cut all employees, including those providing technical support on the networks of telecom operators. The largest customers of the vendor’s equipment in recent years have been MTS and Tele2
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LyGenesis has come up with a non-invasive treatment for people with severe liver damage. To do this, liver cells from a donor are injected into the lymph nodes of patients, literally growing a new liver, which helps to compensate for the main diseased organ.
The solution allows not only to avoid a difficult transplant operation, but also to use donor organs more rationally: the cells of one liver can be enough for 75 people
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Finnish tire manufacturer Nokian Tires is looking for buyers for its plant in the Leningrad region. Before the beginning of September, potential buyers must submit binding offers, Kommersant reports.
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Chinese logistics companies have doubled the price of container shipping by sea, a similar situation is developing with deliveries from Turkey, distributors say. Manufacturers of household appliances and electronics attribute the rise in prices to reduced competition amid the departure of foreign logistics companies and a multiple increase in demand for supplies from China and Turkey
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Astronomers have said that something strange is happening to the Sun: an increasing number of sunspots are showing unusual activity. At the beginning of the week, a massive sunspot AR3085 was discovered on the Sun, directed towards the Earth, which increased 10 times in two days. Today, scientists are baffled by another spot — AR3088 — instead of horizontal magnetic fields, it has vertical, rotated 90 degrees.
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Andrei Zayakin, co-founder of Dissernet and Novaya Gazeta journalist, was detained in Moscow, Novaya Gazeta reports. Europe». His house was searched. Andrei Zayakin is accused of financing extremist activities due to the transfer of 1,000 rubles. Anti-Corruption Foundation (the organization is recognized as extremist and a foreign agent, banned in Russia). Andrei Zayakin was taken to court.
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In January-July 2022, the total profit of large Chinese industrial enterprises decreased by 1.1% year-on-year and amounted to 48.93 trillion yuan ($7.07 trillion), according to the State Statistics Office (GSO) of the country.
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The net profit of the FESCO group (the parent company is PJSC Far Eastern Shipping Company, FESCO) in the first half of 2022 increased by 25%, to 14.465 billion rubles, follows from the company’s financial statements under IFRS.
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Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. and South Korean LG Energy Solution Ltd. plans to build an enterprise for the production of electric batteries in the US state of Ohio, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing informed sources. The companies aim to start construction of the plant in 2023 and expect to start mass production of batteries in 2025, one source said.
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Japanese Olympus Corp. sells Evident Co., a science and industry solutions business, to U.S. private equity fund Bain Capital LLC. for 427.6 billion yen ($3.11 billion).
Evident is a developer of professional microscopes, medical endoscopes and other high-tech equipment.
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In Georgia, on Monday, the multinational military exercises Noble Partner 2022 («Worthy Partner 2022») started jointly with the United States.
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Germany and Denmark have agreed to jointly build a wind power hub in the Baltic Sea, writes Bloomberg. The project is expected to generate more than 3 GW, which will be able to provide electricity to about 4.1 million households.
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