Dividend payments plunge by $42.5 billion in worst quarter for income investors since financial crisis

Dividend payments plunge by $42.5 billion in worst quarter for income investors since financial crisis

A pedestrian passes by the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE, in New York on March 17, 2020. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/Michael Nagle via Getty Images)

Xinhua News Agency

Companies struggling to get through the coronavirus slashed the amount of money they returned to shareholders through dividends in the second quarter.

The net change in Q2 payouts, or the difference…

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