From Seeking Alpha:

There has been lots of news lately about the number of companies cutting dividends to preserve capital. In many cases, we believe these cuts make good economic sense when considering capital and cash are kings and so hard to come by in the current economy.

And not all dividend news is bad. In fact in selected industry sectors there is a lot of good news. Those sectors with the most dividend hikes are in what we call the "essential services" sectors such as consumer staples, energy, health-care, and utilities.

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