Companies such as BASF, Daimler and Deutsche Telekom plan to increase their dividend payouts to shareholders in the coming year. Telekom's generosity goes even further: it plans to distribute its entire profits. The reason: the companies' earnings are solid, but they don't know what to do with the money, because interest rates are so low.
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