LONDON -- Dividend income accounts for around two-thirds of total returns, the actual rate of return taking into account both capital and income appreciation. Given that share prices are often ...

In response, energy companies throughout the oil and gas industry started to cut spending. Shell trimmed its capital spending roughly 30% over that span. The goal was to find a balance between what ...

Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS-B) has a fat yield of around 6.7%. But its long-term debt load has increased by more than 50% in the past year and by nearly 120% since the end of 2014. The oil and ...

Shell made a big bet during the oil industry downturn. Is that putting its dividend at risk, or is the forecast for better days ahead?