BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
State Street Corporation today announced its regular quarterly dividend
of $0.24 per common share, payable on January 15, 2009 to shareholders
of record as of January 2, 2009. State Street has increased its common
stock dividend twice each year since 1978. In compliance with the
restrictions on dividend rate increases generally imposed on all
participants in the U.S. Treasury's TARP Capital Purchase Program, State
Street did not increase its common stock dividend rate in the fourth
quarter as has been its practice.
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is the world's leading provider of
financial services to institutional investors, including investment
servicing, investment management and investment research and trading.
With $14 trillion in assets under custody and $1.7 trillion in assets
under management at September 30, 2008, State Street operates in 26
countries and more than 100 geographic markets worldwide and employs
28,950 worldwide. For more information, visit State Street's web site at www.statestreet.com
or call 877/639-7788 [NEWS STT] toll-free in the United States and
Canada, or +1 678/999-4577 outside those countries.
Source: State Street Corporation
Contact: State Street Corporation
S. Kelley MacDonald, +1 617-664-3477
or
Media:
Hannah Grove, +1 617-664-3377