The FTSE 100 index of the share prices of top companies has just reached an all-time high, 16% up on October 2022. Those top companies paid out about £83 billion in dividends in 2022, and £50.3 bn in share buybacks. MoneyWeek expects "FTSE 100 ordinary dividend payments to keep setting new records in 2023".
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The FTSE 100 index of the share prices of top companies has just reached an all-time high, 16% up on October 2022. Those top companies paid out about £83 billion in dividends in 2022, and £50.3 bn in share buybacks. MoneyWeek expects "FTSE 100 ordinary dividend payments to keep setting new records in 2023".
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Many of the strikes now underway or due soon are directly against the Tory government as employer. We think it was wrong for the RCN nurses’ union to say it would call off strikes if the government just agreed to talk about pay talking won’t win anything unless there is action behind it but the government refused even to make that gesture. NHS workers, ultra-stressed by cumulative erosion of NHS budgets, are allotted 4%, way below inflation, and the Tories as yet won’t even talk about more.