{"id":240514,"date":"2023-02-16T17:49:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T17:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=240514"},"modified":"2023-02-18T12:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T12:24:28","slug":"trebles-all-round","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/trebles-all-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Trebles all round!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FTSE 100 tracks the 100 largest companies listed on the London stock-exchange and it hit a new all-time high at over 8,000 points on Thursday (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Ed5rp7\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bit.ly\/3Ed5rp7<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>FTSE 100 dividends are forecast to hit a record high this year, with shareholders expected to receive \u00a385.8bn, up from \u00a379.1bn in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Share buybacks, where companies acquire and cancel their own shares as a way of returning cash to investors, also rose during 2022. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the cost of energy for households around the world increased between 62.6 and 112.9%. As a result, it is estimated that an additional 78 \u2013 141 million people worldwide could be pushed into extreme poverty (<a href=\"https:\/\/go.nature.com\/414cY3F\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">go.nature.com\/414cY3F<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-240514","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/240514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}