3 FTSE dividends lifted this week

The FTSE 100 currently offers a trailing dividend yield of a little over 3.5%, which is quite a decent return in times like these when interest rates are low and the index has no clear direction. Indeed, buying shares now and taking the dividends, while waiting for a potential price recovery, could serve you very well.

And with the half-year reporting season well underway, many companies are actually defying the wider economic gloom and are in fact raising their dividends. Today we take a look at three that have upped their payouts this week: