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☆ Good news, bad news. Record dividends paid to investors in 2023, but buybacks plunged
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-04 | by ( Bob Pisani | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Good news for long-term investors: corporate America paid a record amount in dividends last year, even as the S & P 500 approached a near-record high. A record year for dividends In 2023, companies in the S & P 500 paid out $588 billion in dividends, a new record. S & P 500 dividend yield history (average yield) Since 1936: 3.49% Last 10 years: 1.83% Last 5 years: 1.67% 2023: 1.5% Source: S & P Global Why has the dividend yield been going down? Second, with the exception of 2022, stock prices and particularly the S & P 500 have been on a tear. (% of index members who pay a dividend) S & P 500: 80.1% S & P MidCap: 65.8% S & P SmallCap: 57.8% Source: S & P Global In the S & P 500, 328 companies (65%) increased their dividends (dollar payout) last year.

Persons: Howard Silverblatt, buybacks, Silverblatt, Johnson Organizations: America, P, Global, Coterra Energy, Natural Resources, Diamondback Energy, Companies, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, JPMorgan, Verizon, Johnson, Apple, Federal, & $ Locations: buybacks, Devon, America

☆ Top Wall Street analysts expect these dividend stocks to boost portfolio returns
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( Tipranks.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The company's dividend hike of 3.4% last year marked the 40th consecutive year of annual dividend growth. Mizuho analyst Nitin Kumar reiterated a buy rating on Exxon with a price target of $139 after attending the company's Product Solutions Spotlight event. Calling CTRA his top pick, Kumar reiterated a buy rating on the stock with a price target of $42. (See BIP Stock Chart on TipRanks)American Electric PowerAnother RBC Capital analyst, Shelby Tucker, is bullish on utility stock American Electric Power (AEP). Recently, Tucker lowered the price target for AEP to $90 from $103 to reflect a high interest environment but reiterated a buy rating.

Persons: Sergio Moraes, Wall, Mizuho, Nitin Kumar, Kumar, TipRanks, Marcellus Shale, Robert Kwan, Kwan, Shelby Tucker, Charles E, Tucker Organizations: AEP BIP, Exxon Mobil Corp, Oil, Gas Expo, Exxon Mobil First, Exxon Mobil, Exxon, Coterra Energy, CTRA, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Infrastructure, RBC Capital, Power, American Electric Power, AEP, 453rd, Darden Locations: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Baytown, Singapore, Anadarko, TipRanks, Brookfield

☆ Russia pinpoints cause of moon shot failure, looks to bring next missions forward
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Russia's first moon mission for 47 years ended in failure on Aug. 19 with the crash of its Luna-25 spacecraft, dashing Moscow's hopes of beating India to the unexplored south pole of the moon. Russia has previously said that Luna-26 would be an orbital mission and Luna-27 would be a lander with a drilling rig. As a result, the propulsion system was not shut down when needed. The Kremlin has played down the failure of the mission, saying Russia will continue to pursue ambitious plans in space. Borisov said Russia had received strong interest from Turkey, Brazil and South Africa in taking part.

Persons: Moscow's, Yuri Gagarin, Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, Luna, Borisov, Guy Faulconbridge, Mark Trevelyan Organizations: 2.1b, Vostochny, REUTERS, Rights, Space Station, Russian, Thomson Locations: Amur, Russia, India, Indian, Moscow, Soviet, Russian, United States, Turkey, Brazil, South Africa

☆ Russia dominated the first space race, but now it can't even land on the moon. Photos show the US and China are way ahead.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

China, Russia, and the US (with its international allies) are all plotting huge new moonshots. Photos of the space efforts of the US, China, and Russia reveal how far behind the former space power has fallen. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe US and China are innovating, while Russia's space tech agesNASA's Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Berger cited other underlying issues that are stifling Russia's space ambitions, like budget cuts, quality control, and corruption. Western sanctions have harmed Russia's space program in other ways, limiting its access to high-quality microchips, the AP reported.

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☆ Kremlin plays down moon landing failure, says space programme will continue
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Roscosmos/Vostochny Space Centre/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY Acquire Licensing Rights Read moreMOSCOW, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Tuesday said that the failure of Russia's Luna-25 mission to the Moon earlier this month was "nothing terrible" and that the main thing was to continue Russia's space exploration program. In a call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "This is not a reason to despair, nor to tear our hair out. Luna-25, Russia's first lunar mission since 1976, crashed into the Moon on Aug. 19 after a failed orbital manoeuvre, in what has been seen abroad as a major blow to the Russian space program. "The main thing is not to stop.

Persons: Russia's Luna, Dmitry Peskov, Luna, Peskov, Felix Light, Guy Faulconbridge, Mark Trevelyan Organizations: 2.1b, Vostochny, Indian, Thomson Locations: Amur, Russia, MOSCOW

☆ Why Russia and India both crashed on the moon's south pole before India nailed the first soft landing there
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The feat comes just days after Russia crash-landed there, and four years after India's first attempt crashed into the lunar south pole. AdvertisementAdvertisementIt was the country's first bid at the lunar south pole, which is especially valuable space real estate because of its frozen-water reserves. Both the US and China also hope to land on the lunar south pole before the end of the decade. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe lunar south pole is uniquely hazardousThe very thing that makes the moon's south pole so desirable — the permanently shadowed regions that harbor water ice — also makes it more difficult to land on. AdvertisementAdvertisementAlso, nobody has ever been to the moon's south pole.

Persons: India's, Robert Braun, Braun, It's, Luna, Kailasavadivoo Sivan, Aijaz, it's, you've, Rajanish, landers Organizations: Service, Space Exploration, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, NASA, Vostochny, Space Corporation, AP, European Space Agency, Space Research Organization, ISRO, India, Soviet Union, Operation, India's Bharatiya Janata Party Locations: Wall, Silicon, Russia, India, Russia's Far, Soviet Union, China, Europe, Ukraine, Bangalore, Mumbai

☆ Factbox: Russia's Luna-25 moon mission fails: what you need to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

LUNA-25It was Russia's first moon mission since the Soviet Union's Luna-24 returned with samples from the moon in 1976. The lander was boosted out of Earth's orbit toward the moon a little over an hour later. Russia had not attempted a moon mission since Luna-24 in 1976, when Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Kremlin. Luna-25 was supposed to execute a soft landing on the south pole of the moon on Aug. 21, according to Russian space officials. Eventually, in the early 2010s, Russia settled upon the idea of the Luna-25 mission to the south pole of the moon.

Persons: Luna, Roskosmos, Yuri Gagarin, Leonid Brezhnev, Vladimir Putin, Guy Faulconbridge, Philippa Fletcher, Christina Fincher Organizations: 2.1b, Vostochny, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Soyuz, Luna, Kremlin, Thomson Locations: Amur, Russia, Soviet, Vostochny cosmodrome, Moscow, RUSSIA, Soviet Union

☆ Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft suffers technical glitch in pre-landing maneuver
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Russia reported an "abnormal situation" Saturday on its moon-bound Luna-25 spacecraft, which launched earlier this month. The spacecraft is scheduled to land on the south pole of the moon on Monday, racing to land on Earth's satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft. The lunar south pole is of particular interest to scientists, who believe the permanently shadowed polar craters may contain water. Also on Saturday, the Russian spacecraft produced its first results. A previous Indian attempt to land at the moon's south pole in 2019 ended when the lander crashed into the moon's surface.

Persons: Roscosmos, Luna, Russia's, Egorov, Vladimir Putin Organizations: 2.1b, Vostochny, Soviet Union, Baikonur Locations: Amur, Russia, Russian, Soviet, Soviet Union, United States, China, India, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

☆ Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft enters lunar orbit
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, August 11, 2023. The Luna-25 entered the moon's orbit at 11:57 a.m. (0857 GMT), Russia's space corporate Roskosmos said. India's Chandrayaan-3 entered the moon's orbit earlier this month ahead of a planned touchdown on the south pole of the moon later this month. No Russian spacecraft has entered lunar orbit since Luna-24, the Soviet Union's 1976 moon mission, according to Anatoly Zak, the creator and publisher of www.RussianSpaceWeb.com which tracks Russian space programmes. "Entering lunar orbit is absolutely critical for the success of this project," Zak told Reuters.

Persons: Luna, India's, Anatoly Zak, Zak, Guy Faulconbridge, Andrew Cawthorne, Bernadette Baum Organizations: 2.1b, Vostochny, REUTERS, Rights, NASA, Thomson Locations: Amur, Russia, Soviet

☆ Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft enters lunar orbit -space agency
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Roscosmos/Vostochny Space Centre/Handout via REUTERS/File photo Acquire Licensing RightsMOSCOW, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Russia's lunar spacecraft entered the moon's orbit on Wednesday, a major step towards the country's ambition of being the first to land on the moon's south pole in the search for frozen water. The Luna-25 entered the moon's orbit at 11:57 a.m. (0857 GMT), Russia's space corporate Roskosmos said. India's Chandrayaan-3 entered the moon's orbit earlier this month ahead of a planned touchdown on the south pole of the moon later this month. No Russian spacecraft has entered lunar orbit since Luna-24, the Soviet Union's 1976 moon mission, according to Anatoly Zak, the creator and publisher of www.RussianSpaceWeb.com which tracks Russian space programmes. "Entering lunar orbit is absolutely critical for the success of this project," Zak told Reuters.

Roscosmos/Vostochny Space Centre/Handout via REUTERS/File photoMOSCOW, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Russia on Sunday switched on the scientific instruments aboard its lunar lander and scientists began processing its first data as the space craft sped towards the moon in a bid to be first to find ice on the Earth's only natural satellite. As it hurtles towards the moon, which is 384,400 km (238,855 miles) from our planet, the scientific instruments were switched on with the first data on the flight measured, Russia's space agency said. "The first measurement data on the flight to the Moon has been obtained, and the project's scientific team has begun processing it," Roscosmos said. There is much riding on the Luna-25 mission for Russia: if it succeeds, Russia is likely to say it shows that the West's sanctions over the Ukraine war cannot hold Russia back. But failure would again raise questions over Russia's space ambitions after the decades of superpower space competition with the United States during the Cold War.

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Russia said that it would launch further lunar missions and then explore the possibility of a joint Russian-China crewed mission and even a lunar base. NASA has spoken about a "lunar gold rush" and explored the potential of moon mining. The conditions of the moon mean robots would have to do most of the hard work, though water on the moon would allow for long-term human presence. It has not been ratified by any major space power. The United States in 2020 announced the Artemis Accords, named after NASA’s Artemis moon program, to seek to build on existing international space law by establishing “safety zones" on the moon.

Persons: Guy Faulconbridge, Peter Graff Organizations: NASA, European Space Agency, 2.1b, Vostochny, REUTERS, Boeing, United Nations, RAND Corporation, Artemis Accords, Thomson Locations: MOSCOW, Russia, United States, China, India, Russian, Sun, Amur

☆ Russia is racing to beat the US, India, and China to the south pole of the moon in its first lunar mission since the 70s
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

If successful, it could be the first to do a soft landing on the south pole of the moon. Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, launched the Luna-25 mission on Friday morning from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, Reuters reported. The Soyuz-2.1b rocket is carrying a lander, which Roscosmos will try to land on the south pole of the moon on August 21, Reuters reported. The south pole is a crucial strategic objectiveRussia isn't the only nation vying for the south pole. Russia's ambitious return to the moon was delayed by invading UkraineRussia's Luna-25 mission, the first moon mission in over a decade, aims to put a rover on the south pole of the moon.

Persons: Roscosmos, Lev Zeleny, Luna, Maxim Litvak, Peter Byrne, Ukraine Russia's Luna, space.com Organizations: Service, Russia, Luna, Vostochny, Reuters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, NASA, REUTERS Luna, European Space Agency Locations: Russia, India, China, Wall, Silicon, Amur, Liverpool, Ukraine, Handout, Luna

☆ Russia launches moon lander in race to find water on moon
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

[1/2] A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, in this still image from video taken August 11, 2023. Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERSWASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Russia launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years on Thursday, in a bid to be the first power to make a soft landing on the lunar south pole, a region believed to hold coveted deposits of water ice. The launch was livestreamed by Russia's space agency. Reporting by Joey Roulette; Editing by Jamie FreedOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Joey Roulette, Jamie Freed Organizations: 2.1b, Vostochny, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Amur, Russia, Handout, REUTERS WASHINGTON

The Russian lunar mission, the first since 1976, is racing against India, which launched its Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander last month, and more broadly with the United States and China, both of which have advanced lunar exploration programs targeting the lunar south pole. The lander is expected to touch down on the moon on Aug. 21, Russia's space chief Yuri Borisov told Interfax on Friday. I hope that a highly precise soft landing on the moon will happen," Borisov told workers at the Vostochny cosmodrome after the launch, according to Interfax. A Japanese lunar landing failed last year and an Israeli mission failed in 2019. No country has made a soft landing on the south pole.

Persons: Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, Borisov, Luna, Asif Siddiqi, Neil Armstrong, Maxim Litvak, Guy Faulconbridge, Joey Roulette, Leslie Adler, Gerry Doyle Organizations: India, Soyuz, Luna, Vostochny, NASA, Kremlin, Space, European Space Agency, Fordham University, Reuters, 2.1b, REUTERS U.S, European Union, Thomson Locations: MOSCOW, Russia, United States, China, Vostochny cosmodrome, Moscow, Ukraine, Russian, Amur, Handout, Soviet, Soviet Union, India, Japan, Washington

☆ OneWeb 'moves on' from Soyuz-stranded satellites as its network nears completion
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Joey Roulette | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Dmitry Rogozin said at the time that his agency wanted OneWeb to provide guarantees that its satellites were not going to be used against Russia. But it has been unable to retrieve the satellites from their Soyuz launchsite at the Russia-owned Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellites are worth a combined $50 million, OneWeb chief executive Neil Masterson said Tuesday. OneWeb, which manufactures at least two satellites per day, had another batch of 36 satellites ready for launch soon after cancelling Soyuz, Masterson said. Asked if Russia's custody of the commercially sensitive technology raises security or competitive concerns for OneWeb, Masterson said: "It's not a material problem."

☆ Russia launches Soyuz rocket carrying military satellite - state media
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Nov 2 (Reuters) - Russia has launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a military satellite into space, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday citing the defence ministry. The rocket - a Soyuz-2.1b medium-class launch vehicle - was launched at 9:48 a.m. Moscow time (0648 GMT) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, the ministry was quoted as saying. It did not provide details about the purpose of the satellite. Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Andrew HeavensOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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