[Am-info] Microsoft to Issue First-Ever Dividend

Erick Andrews Erick Andrews" <eandrews@star.net
Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:26:16 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:50:46 -0800, Mitch Stone wrote:

>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=528&e=1&cid=528&u=/ap/ 
>20030117/ap_on_hi_te/earns_microsoft
>
>Microsoft to Issue First-Ever Dividend

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>Microsoft chairman Bill Gates ( news -web sites ), who would own about  
>1.2 billion shares after the stock split, would receive a dividend of  
>$99.5 million. 

Uh, may I say "priceless"?

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Erick Andrews