Description: Canada’s largest banks could raise their dividends as much as 25 per cent once regulators allow them to increase their payouts, according to an investment firm that focuses on financial stocks.

Source: BNNBloomberg.ca – video report

Date: Oct 20, 2021

Link: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/canadian-bank-dividends-could-rise-25-when-restrictions-lifted-1.1668682

Questions for discussion:

• Why might bank dividend payouts be increasing shortly, according to the report?
• Why did the banks do particularly well during the last year or so?
• Would you be an investor in banks today?
• What could cause the banks to suddenly weaken?