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The Board of Directors of FedEx today declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.40 per share on FedEx Corporation common stock. The dividend is payable January 3, 2017 to stockholders of record at the close of business on December 12, 2016.

The Board of Directors of Chubb today declared a quarterly dividend equal to $0.69 per share, payable on January 20, 2017 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 30, 2016. Dividend payments will be made in United States dollars by the company's transfer agent. This will be the third installment as approved by the company's shareholders on May 19, 2016.

The Board of Directors of PepsiCo today declared a quarterly dividend of $0.7525 per share of PepsiCo common stock, a 7.1 percent increase versus the comparable year-earlier period. Today's action is consistent with PepsiCo's previously announced increase in its annualized dividend to $3.01 per share from $2.81 per share, which began with the June 2016 payment. This dividend is payable on January 6, 2017 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 2, 2016. PepsiCo has paid consecutive quarterly cash dividends since 1965, and 2016 marks the company's 44th consecutive annual dividend increase.

NIKE announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.18 per share on the company's outstanding Class A and Class B Common Stock payable on January 3, 2017, to shareholders of record at the close of business December 5, 2016.

Agilent Technologies today announced that its board of directors has increased the company's quarterly dividend to 13.2 cents per share of common stock. The dividend will be paid on Jan. 25, to all shareholders of record as of the close of business on Jan. 3.

For MarketNewsVideo.com, I'm Sayoko Murase.