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  "id": 4095142,
  "title": "A Costco Special Dividend Could Be Coming, but Walmart Has Raised Its Dividend for 53 Consecutive Years. Here's the Better Buy Now.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/a-costco-special-dividend-could-be-coming-but-walmart-has-raised-its",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-29T02:15:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Motley Fool",
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    "url": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/08/28/a-costco-special-dividend-could-be-coming-but-walm/?source=iedfolrf0000001"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Costco has a history of making huge one-time dividend payments, but you can't count on those dividends to pay the bills.",
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        "outlet": "Nasdaq Markets",
        "title": "A Costco Special Dividend Could Be Coming, but Walmart Has Raised Its Dividend for 53 Consecutive Years. Here's the Better Buy Now.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/a-costco-special-dividend-could-be-coming-but-walmart-has-raised-its-4096845",
        "published": "2026-08-29T02:35:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}