📅 On This Day
Twitter Debuts Publicly, Wiring Markets to 280 Characters
On July 15, 2006, Twitter opened its doors to the world — three months after Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet. What began as a curiosity became the real-time nervous system of financial markets, where CEOs announced deals, presidents moved currencies, and Elon Musk's 'funding secured' tweet triggered an SEC investigation. Twitter went public in 2013, never paid a dividend, and was taken private by Musk in 2022 for $44 billion — now reborn as X.
Twenty years on, the platform that became X still moves markets faster than any earnings call ever could.
🇺🇸 US
Source: Britannica; The Wall Street Journal
🌍 Around the World
Norway's Dividend Tax Overhaul Sends Billionaires Fleeing to Switzerland
Norway's statutory dividend tax sits at 22%, but an 'adjustment factor' dramatically alters the real cost. When the government raised that factor to 1.72 in October 2022, the effective rate climbed to roughly 37.8% — and the exodus was swift: around 80 wealthy Norwegians relocated to Switzerland, taking an estimated NOK 46 billion in assets with them. For dividend investors, Norway stands as a vivid modern reminder of how swiftly policy can upend compounding math.
Add an unrealized-gains wealth tax on top, and Norway's tax stack becomes a masterclass in what drives capital away.
🇳🇴 NO
Source: Norwegian Tax Administration (Skatteetaten); Fortune (April 2024); Tax Foundation Europe
🔥 Dividend Streak
Target Bets $5 Billion to Defend Its 58-Year Dividend Streak
Target has paid a quarterly dividend every quarter since going public in 1967 — 233 consecutive payments and 58 straight years of raises. In 2026, the company is investing $5 billion in same-day delivery and store conversions, already fulfilling 96% of digital orders straight from store shelves. It is a brick-and-mortar retailer keeping a Dividend King streak alive in the Amazon era by quietly turning every store into a distribution node.
Fifty-eight years of raises, and TGT's answer to e-commerce pressure is to make the store do more, not less.
TGT — 11880 Solutions AG
Source: StockTitan / Target Corporation dividend declaration release
🔥 Dividend Streak
Target Bets $5 Billion to Defend Its 58-Year Dividend Streak
Target has paid a quarterly dividend every quarter since going public in 1967 — 233 consecutive payments and 58 straight years of raises. In 2026, the company is investing $5 billion in same-day delivery and store conversions, already fulfilling 96% of digital orders straight from store shelves. It is a brick-and-mortar retailer keeping a Dividend King streak alive in the Amazon era by quietly turning every store into a distribution node.
Fifty-eight years of raises, and TGT's answer to e-commerce pressure is to make the store do more, not less.
TGT — Target Corporation
Source: StockTitan / Target Corporation dividend declaration release
💡 Did You Know
Cell Towers, Data Centers, and Prisons All Qualify as REITs
When most investors picture a REIT, they see apartment buildings — but the IRS definition of qualifying real estate casts a far wider net. American Tower and Crown Castle lease antenna space atop their towers to wireless carriers; Equinix and Digital Realty rent server cage space to tech giants; and Timber REIT Weyerhaeuser owns millions of acres of forest. GEO Group and CoreCivic even ran correctional facilities as REITs before exiting under political pressure. The common thread is simply: own a physical asset, lease it to tenants.
If it can be owned and leased, the tax code may well call it real estate — however surprising the structure.
Source: Nareit REIT sector classifications; SEC filings for American Tower, Equinix, GEO Group