AB InBev Cuts Dividend in Half to Save More Than $1 Billion

  • Budweiser maker has been struggling to reduce $96 billion debt
  • Investors face economic pain from crisis as dividends topple
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Anheuser-Busch InBev NV halved its proposed dividend, which will save about 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) as the coronavirus pandemic has shut bars and and cut beer drinking.