Headline News: Dividend Increases

• FHLB Des Moines Announces First Quarter 2008 Financial Results and Dividend (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
  DES MOINES, Iowa, May 12, 2008 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines today released unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008 and announced a quarterly dividend at an annualized rate of 4.00% payable on May 16, 2008.
  
• Fujitsu Reports Fiscal 2007 Financial Results; Operating Income Increases 12%, Year-end dividend Raised to 5 Yen (Japan Corporate News)
  Tokyo, Japan, May 12, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu Limited, a leading provider of IT-based business solutions for the global marketplace, today reported a consolidated operating income of 204.9 billion yen (US$2,049 million*) for fiscal 2007 (April 1, 2007 ? March 31, 2008), an increase of 12.6% over the previous year.
  
• South Africa: Gold Fields Pays Dividend As Power Supply Stabilises (AllAfrica.com)
  THE stabilisation of the electricity supply to its mines and a gold price at more than R220000/kg encouraged Gold Fields to declare on Friday the dividend it passed at interim stage because of the uncertain power situation.
  
• Dynex Capital, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2008 Results and Common Dividend (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
  GLEN ALLEN, Va.----Dynex Capital, Inc. reported its results today for the first quarter of 2008 and also announced its second quarter common stock dividend. The Company reported net income to common shareholders of $4.3 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2008, versus net income to common shareholders of $0.9 million for the same quarter last year.
  
• Two Keys to Avoiding Dividend Cuts (Morningstar.com via Yahoo! Finance)
  Love your dividends, but don't reach for yield.
  
• Pepsico Announces Dividend Increase (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News)
  13 per cent Rise in Dividend is PepsiCo's 36th Consecutive Increase
  
• PEPSICO ANNOUNCES DIVIDEND INCREASE (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance)
  Food   13 per cent Rise in Dividend is PepsiCo's 36th Consecutive Increase
  
• Delphi Financial Announces 11% Increase in Cash Dividend and Expansion of Share Repurchase Program (Centre Daily Times)
  Delphi Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:DFG) announced today that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share, an 11% increase from its previous dividend of $0.09 per share. The cash dividend will be payable on June 4, 2008 to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 21, 2008.
  
• Carl Zeiss Meditec: High growth in Asia and Europe produces substantial increase in revenue in second quarter of ... (n-tv.de)
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• Delphi Financial Announces 11% Increase in Cash Dividend and Expansion of Share Repurchase Program (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
  WILMINGTON, Del.----Delphi Financial Group, Inc. announced today that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share, an 11% increase from its previous dividend of $0.09 per share.