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Agilent Technologies (A) has increased the company's quarterly dividend to 11.5 cents per share of common stock. The dividend will be paid on Jan. 27, 2016, to all shareholders of record as of the close of business on Jan. 5, 2016.

The Home Depot declared a third quarter cash dividend of 59 cents per share. The dividend is payable on December 17, 2015, to shareholders of record on the close of business on December 3, 2015.

PepsiCo (PEP) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.7025 per share of PepsiCo common stock, a 7.3 percent increase versus the comparable year-earlier period. The dividend is payable on Jan. 7, 2016 to shareholders of record at the close of business on Dec. 4, 2015.

Union Pacific Corporation (UNP) has declared a quarterly dividend of 55 cents per share on the company's common stock, payable Dec. 30, 2015, to shareholders of record Nov. 30, 2015.

Yum! Brands (YUM) declared a dividend of $0.46 per share of common stock. The quarterly dividend will be distributed February 5, 2016 to shareholders of record at the close of business on January 15, 2016.

Air Products (APD) declared a quarterly dividend of 81 cents per share of common stock. The dividend is payable on February 8, 2016 to shareholders of record at the close of business on January 4, 2016.

Williams (WMB) has approved a regular dividend of $0.64, or $2.56 annualized, on the company's common stock, payable Dec. 28, 2015 to holders of record at the close of business Dec. 11, 2015.

PPL Corporation (PPL) declared a quarterly common stock dividend on Friday, Nov. 20, of $0.3775 per share, payable Jan. 4, 2016, to shareowners of record as of Dec. 10, 2015.

For MarketNewsVideo.com, I'm Sayoko Murase.