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LOUIS----Pulaski Financial Corp. announced that its Board of Directors declared its regular quarterly cash dividend of 9.5 cents per share, which equals an annualized dividend rate of 38 cents per share.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1691652675</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:30:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hudson City Bancorp, Inc. 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