CUMULATIVE DIVIDEND INCREASES SURPASSES FULL 2010

The net S & P 500 rates indicated dividend (increases less decreases) year 20.985 billion update has just surpassed (today XOM put the) total increased 20.650 billion in 2010. Using the analogy of dividends being your pay cheque, CDA has given you a 8.20% salary increase, with 12 months 17,90% increase. However, you still 10.66% less than you were in June 2008, with my estimate that it will be early 2013 until you get the equivalent payment in your hand as you did in 2008. For the first four months of the year, the net dividend indicated increases for the S & P 500 is 148% of the period of April 2010, 4 months, with the actual amount + 13.6%.

For the full year, I expect dividend increases continue at a rapid pace, but not at the level of the last four months. If the economy continues to improve (or at least the housing and Commercial real estate is not dive), I would expect a possible second round (not that we are still made with the first) of Financial dividend increases year, with the payment increased in the first quarter of 2012.

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Landslide danger Philippines increases

Officials Philippines discovered a crack dangerous Sunday in a mountain affected by a deadly landslide last week and want the troops to dozens of gold miners illegal force to evacuate before another disaster their remote village in the South.

Environment and natural resources Secretary Ramon Paje said that he and other officials discovered the long crack of 70 metres on a slope of mountain above the village of Kingking during an aerial survey.

Part of the slope of the mountain along the crack collapsed after a rain downpour Friday and buried several yards below, leaving at least five dead and 17 missing.

Rescuers search for victims of landslide Friday at a mining camp in the southern Philippines. (Jeffrey Maitem/Associated Press)

Soldiers of the army, police and minor colleagues resumed the search for persons missing in the collapse Sunday hoped that all surviving more could be removed about 30 metres of mud, rocks and debris buried several cabinsthe dormitories and the illegal gold miners tents in Kingking near the town of Pantukan in the province of Compostela Valley, officials said.

Approximately 13 persons were excavated by the muck since Friday.

Unstable Earth along two-thirds of the deep crack could collapse with the next rain and burying about 30 cabins and bunkhouses inhabited by prospectors of gold in Kingking, Paje said.

"It is really critical," Paje said Associated Press by telephone from Pantukan. "This mountain slope is very sensitive to another landslide."

PAJE, who was accompanied by Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, air survey said that they discussed with provincial, the army and police officials in the Valley of Compostela how minors of gold could be evacuated immediately safe.

Despite the danger, hundreds of poor villagers dug gold tree dangerous close distant villages like Kingking for years. Many have ignored the warnings and defied occasional Government crackdowns on illegal mining by the undermanned military and police.

"They tell us that they would die in a disaster that die of starvation,", said the Mayor of Pantukan Celso Sarenas.

PAJE said that he and the other members of the Cabinet are under the orders of the President Benigno Aquino III to take measures to prevent more deaths in the region of the extraction of gold, which has been hit by fatal accidents in the past.

"The Government has the power to conduct an evacuation forced when the danger is really high", Paje said.

Landslide Friday covered one hectare (at least 2.5 acres) of Kingking and buried more than a dozen cabins, dormitories and tents, where miners of gold remains some with their families, police said.

A similar landslide killed 26 people in a village of Pantukan in 2009, said police.

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Asian stocks won Gain on earnings, economic data; Increases in copper

April 20 (Bloomberg) - Stocks and commodities advanced, while the won strengthened the most in more than two months as earnings at companies from Intel Corp. to South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. and data from the U.S. and Europe bolstered confidence in the economic recovery.

The MSCI World Index rose 0.8 percent at 4: 10 p.m. in Tokyo, set for the biggest gain this month. Standard & Poor's 500 Index future added 0.7 percent. Copper rallied 1.2 percent. Gold for immediate delivery advanced to more than $1,500 an ounce for the first time. Oil climbed for a second day in New York. Treasuries snapped a three-day increase. The won appreciated 0.8 percent versus the dollar, while the yen slid as Japan's exports fell, underscoring prospects the central bank will maintain stimulus.Chipmakers rose after Intel forecast second - quarter sales that may top analysts' estimates. LG Chem reported a better-than-estimated 27 percent profit gain, sending shares of South Korea's biggest chemicals maker to a record. "Economic reports today are forecast to show an improving U.S. housing market and a rise in German producer prices, while Japan's government said exports dropped for the first time in more than a year.""You're seeing signs the U.S. and Europe are still on track for recovery," said Hiroichi Nishi, an equities manager in Tokyo at SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. "That's helped to ease nerves."About five shares advanced for each that declined on the MSCI Asia Pacific index, which increased 1.5 percent, set for the biggest jump since March 22. The measure fell 1.6 percent in the previous three sessions. South Korea's Kospi Index surged 2.2 percent to a record, Taiwan's Taiex index increased 2 percent and Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average rallied 1.8 percent.LG Chem, Wynn MacauLG Chem gained 5.6 percent in Seoul. Wynn Macau Ltd., a unit of the casino operator founded by billionaire Steven Wynn, jumped 3.3 percent, also set for a record close, after first - quarter profit increased 66 percent. HCL Technologies Ltd., an Indian software services provider, soared 7.3 percent after its profit beat estimates. Samsung Electronics Co., the largest maker of memory chips, rose 4.7 percent after Seagate Technology Plc agreed to buy its unprofitable hard-disk drive business.Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and Elpida Memory Inc. led gains among Asian chipmakers after Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, said revenue this quarter will be $12.8 trillion, more gold minus $500 million. That compares with $11.9 trillion, the average of analysts' projections compiled by Bloomberg. The shares surged as much as 6.7 percent in late trading.Yahoo! Inc. gained in extended U.S. trading after reporting better-than-expected first - quarter sales. Apple Inc., AT & T Inc. and American Express Co. are among at least 19 other S & P 500 companies scheduled to release quarterly results today. The index rose 0.6 percent yesterday, after falling 1.1 percent on April 18, when S & P cut the long-term U.S. credit outlook to negative.Earnings Expectations, "the comparison gets a little tougher, the environment has gotten a little softer and our expectations are higher," Bob Doll, chief equity strategist for fundamental equities at BlackRock Inc., the world's biggest money manager, said in a Bloomberg Television interview from PrincetonNew Jersey. "We've had seven quarters in a row of very good earnings versus expectations and I suspect this time, we're going to kind of them meet or exceed them by a bit."Purchases of existing U.S. homes climbed 2.5 percent in March after dropping 9.6 percent in February, according to a Bloomberg News survey before the National Association of Realtors report today. A Commerce Department report showed work began yesterday on 549,000 houses at an annual pace, up 7.2 percent from the prior month and exceeding the 520,000 median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.German PricesThe euro strengthened 0.5 percent to $1.4406 before a report from the Federal Statistics Office that's forecast to show German producer prices rose 0.8 percent in March, following a 0.7 percent advance the previous month. The shared currency gained 0.7 percent yesterday after Germany's purchasing managers' index for manufacturing rose to 61.7 this month from 60.9 in March, Markit Economics said yesterday. A reading above 50 signals an expansion.Australia's dollar gained 0.7 percent to $1.0596 and earlier reached $1.0607, the highest level since the currency was freely floated in 1983. The New Zealand dollar rose 0.8 percent to 79.48 U.S. cents. The won rose 0.8 percent to 1,082.35 per dollar, the largest increase since Feb. 2, while Taiwan's dollar rallied 0.4 percent to NT$ 29.006.Asian currencies also strengthened after Hu Xiaolian, China's deputy central bank governor signaled faster gains in the yuan may be tolerated to combat inflation. An adviser to the People's Bank of China, Xia Bin, also said China will not rule out a one-off revaluation of the currency.Japan's EconomyThe yen weakened against all 16 major counterparts. The currency traded at 82.86 per dollar from 82.59 yesterday and bought 119.50 per euro from 118.39 yesterday. Japan's overseas shipments declined 2.2 percent in March from a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said today, compared with the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News for a 1.1 percent drop. "The trade surplus shrank to 196.5 billion yen ($ 2.4 billion) from 653.3 trillion yen in February, the government said.""With the outlook still in a haze, we have to be rather bearish on the economy," said Toru Suehiro, a market analyst in Tokyo at Mizuho Securities Co., one of the 24 primary dealers obliged to bid at government debt sales. "Ten-year yields areThe yield is the nation's benchmark 10-year bond was unchanged at 1.24 percent." Treasuries snapped a three-day advance, with the 10-year yield increasing two basis points to 2.84 percent.Commodities ClimbS & P's GSCI Index of 24 raw materials climbed 0.8 percent, set for a second day of gains. Copper for three-month delivery rose 1.2 percent to $9,450 a metric ton on the London Metal Exchange, after Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. said it suspended operations at an Indonesian mine, potentially prosperity the expected shortfall this year.Immediate-delivery gold rallied as much as 0.4 percent to a record $1,502.30 an ounce. Wheat rose 0.6 percent to $8.2575 a bushel, extending a three-day, 5.8 percent rally. Corn future advanced 1.1 percent to $7.6525 a bushel.Crude oil for June delivery gained 0.8 percent to $109.14 a barrel in after-hours electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after gaining 0.6 percent to $108.18 a barrel yesterday, the highest since April 15. The May contract, which expired yesterday, rallied $1.03 to settle at $108.15.

-With assistance from Anna Kitanaka, Yoshiaki Nohara and Monami Yui in Tokyo, Candice Zachariahs in Sydney, Saeromi Shin in Seoul and Weiyi Lim, Masaki Kondo and Wes Goodman in Singapore. Editor: Patrick Chu

To contact the reporters on this story: Shiyin Chen in Singapore at schen37@bloomberg.net; Satoshi Kawano in Tokyo at skawano1@bloomberg.net.

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Transfer of health increases will be saved: Ignatieff

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is promising to maintain the annual increase of six per cent of health funding transfers after the expiry of the current agreement with the provinces in 2014.

Issued Ignatieff pledge in an open letter to Canadians on Friday as he was to visit a hospital in Hamilton.

"The provinces are deal with budget deficits and spiraling health care costs." "It is essential that a new Federal Government is committed to investing in health beyond 2014, so that the provinces may obtain the work of reform of our health care system," said Ignatieff.

"We must ensure that it is there when every Canadian family needs".

The existing health agreement was signed in 2004 and should be renegotiated.

Ignatieff said backing away from the health agreement would be "irresponsible".

Ignatieff said a new agreement of health would become "an immediate priority," If the Liberals form the next Government.

The Liberals say health transfers to the provinces will be 30.2 billion in 2013-2014 and will increase to 32.1 billion in 2014 - 2015. Provinces will see 36.1 billion circulating in the transfer of health by 2016, according to the Liberals.

The party did not say how long will last financial commitment. But confirmed it would be a "long period".

Ignatieff criticized conservative spending cuts tax on corporations, prisons and the F-35 fighter aircraft.

The Liberal leader said many provinces is struggling with their own budget deficits and funding requires stable health beyond 2014.

Open letter from the Ignatieff on the financing of health care was released hours before the Conservatives were officially release the platform of the party election in Mississauga, Ontario.

Conservative leader Stephen Harper requested on its commitment to the health accord Thursday.

He did not offer firm commitments to what may seem like a new health contract, but he said that provincial governments would not be exposed cuts to their health transfers.

"Our approach is to work with the provinces, not to reduce the provinces and do not try to dictate to the provinces." "We know there are some challenges and we want to work with the provinces to make the system more efficient", Harper said.

Harper has also promised that he would respect the deal of separate health signed by Quebec in 2004.

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