{"id":20637,"date":"2011-02-17T07:33:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T11:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20637"},"modified":"2011-02-17T07:33:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T11:33:39","slug":"anglogold%e2%80%99s-hedge-cuts-boost-dividend-accelerate-debt-repayment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2011\/anglogold%e2%80%99s-hedge-cuts-boost-dividend-accelerate-debt-repayment.html","title":{"rendered":"AngloGold\u2019s Hedge Cuts Boost Dividend, Accelerate Debt Repayment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; AngloGold Ashanti Ltd., the third- largest producer of the metal, raised its dividend payout and paid back debt faster than expected after its decision to cut gold hedges increased the company\u2019s spare funds.<\/p>\n<p>So-called cash flow from operations in the fourth quarter, excluding the cost of buying back hedges, surged 60 percent to $679 million from the prior quarter and 46 percent from a year earlier, the company said in a statement today.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-02-17\/anglogold-ashanti-reports-fourth-quarter-adjusted-earnings-of-294-million.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; AngloGold Ashanti Ltd., the third- largest producer of the metal, raised its dividend payout and paid back debt faster than expected after its decision to cut gold hedges increased the company\u2019s spare funds. So-called cash flow from operations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20638,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20637\/revisions\/20638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}