According to @KobeissiLetter, Japan's 10-year government bond yield has risen to 1.66%, the highest since 2008 and eight times higher than in 2022. According to @KobeissiLetter, this now exceeds the S&P 500's dividend yield at 1.16%, the lowest since 2001, marking the first crossover since 2007. According to @KobeissiLetter, investors can currently earn more income from Japanese 10-year government bonds than from S&P 500 dividends, and the S&P 500's dividend yield exceeded Japan's 10Y by 2.35 percentage points in 2020, underscoring a rapidly shifting global investing landscape.

According to @StockMKTNewz, Starbucks SBUX increased its quarterly dividend to 0.62 dollars per share from 0.61 dollars per share, a rise of roughly 1.6 percent based on the figures provided by the same source. Based on this update, the annualized dividend moves to 2.48 dollars from 2.44 dollars, derived directly from the payout numbers cited by @StockMKTNewz. The source did not provide an effective date, record date, or ex-dividend date, so timing details for dividend-capture strategies are not available from the source.