Marshall & Ilsley

>Company Name – Marshall & Ilsley

Ticker Symbol – MI

Date – January 15, 2009 - Closing price $7.93

Announcement - plans to cut 830 jobs, or 8% of its workforce, and would give no bonuses to its executives for 2008. It also reduced the annual cash retainer for its directors by 25% and slashed its quarterly dividend to 1 cent a share. Read Full Story

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Marshall & Ilsley Corporation provides diversified financial services to corporate, institutional, government, and individual customers in the United States. Its Commercial Banking segment provides various commercial, corporate, and real estate banking products and services, including traditional commercial loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, asset-based lending, equipment financing, mezzanine financing, global trade and foreign exchange services, treasury management, and other financial services to middle market, corporate, and public sector customers, as well as secured and unsecured lines of credit, construction loans, and land acquisition and development loans for commercial real estate and correspondent banking markets.

The company’s Community Banking segment offers consumer and business banking products and services, including mortgages, home equity loan and lines, credit cards, student loans, personal lines of credit and term loans, demand deposit accounts, interest bearing transaction accounts, and time deposits, as well as commercial real estate construction loans, agricultural loans, and secured and unsecured lines and term loans.

Its Wealth Management segment provides asset management, trust, brokerage, life insurance, and advisory services. Marshall & Ilsley Corporation also offers derivative, currency conversion, and foreign exchange risk management services, as well as wholesale home equity consumer lending, indirect automobile financing, and affinity banking services.

As of March 11, 2008, it operated 193 offices in Wisconsin, 50 locations in Arizona, 32 offices in central Indiana; 31 offices along Florida's west coast and in central Florida; 14 offices in Kansas City and nearby communities, Missouri; 23 offices in metropolitan Minneapolis/St. Paul and 1 in Duluth, Minnesota; 1 office in Las Vegas, Nevada; and 17 offices in the greater St. Louis area, Missouri. The company was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Have you ever bought a stock only to find out later that you were not entitled to the next cash or stock dividend paid by the company? To determine whether you should get cash and most stock dividends, you need to look at two important dates. They are the "record date" or "date of record" and the "ex-dividend date" or "ex-date."

When a company declares a dividend, it sets a record date when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. Companies also use this date to determine who is sent proxy statements, financial reports, and other information.

Once the company sets the record date, the stock exchanges or the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. fix the ex-dividend date. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks two business days before the record date. If you purchase a stock on its ex-dividend date or after, you will not receive the next dividend payment. Instead, the seller gets the dividend. If you purchase before the ex-dividend date, you get the dividend.

Here is an example:

Declaration Date	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
7/27/2004	8/6/2004	8/10/2004	9/10/2004

On July 27, 2004, Company XYZ declares a dividend payable on September 10, 2004 to its shareholders. XYZ also announces that shareholders of record on the company's books on or before August 10, 2004 are entitled to the dividend. The stock would then go ex-dividend two business days before the record date.

In this example, the record date falls on a Tuesday. Excluding weekends and holidays, the ex-dividend is set two business days before the record date or the opening of the market – in this case on the preceding Friday. This means anyone who bought the stock on Friday or after would not get the dividend. At the same time, those who purchase before the ex-dividend date receive the dividend.

With a significant dividend, the price of a stock may move up by the dollar amount of the dividend as the ex-dividend date approaches and then fall by that amount after the ex-dividend date. A stock that has gone ex-dividend is marked with an "x" in newspapers on that day.

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