Both are brilliant, both walk away with a handsome sum and both leave a tarnished legacy of unsolved issues and gray areas of doubt and uncertainty in the company image. Now, that there is at last a hand on the tiller again, Deutsche Bank seems desirous of becoming transparent again. First of all you think aloud then you announce that the shareholders will pay by a stable dividend of 0.00. A few years ago Deutsche Telekom came up with the same idea, only the other way round. The company decides its own future for the next few years whatever the results Nobody seems to care that it is by far much more costly to set the bank on an even keel instead of the company where dividend is generated. Blessed indeed are those who believe that dividend and revenue or even profitability are somehow related.
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