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MasterCard doubles dividend, to buy back $2 bln of shares
Reuters: Financials
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
Feb 5 (Reuters) - MasterCard Inc doubled its quarterly cash dividend to 60 cents per share and said it would buy back up to $2 billion of its Class A shares.
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