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The board of directors of Nucor increased the regular quarterly cash dividend on Nucor's common stock by 5.3% to $0.40 per share from $0.38 per share. This cash dividend is payable on February 11, 2019 to stockholders of record on December 31, 2018 and is Nucor's 183rd consecutive quarterly cash dividend. Nucor has increased its regular, or base, dividend for 46 consecutive years - every year since it first began paying dividends in 1973. Over the past ten years, Nucor has returned more than $5 billion in capital to its stockholders in the form of base dividends, supplemental dividends and share repurchases.

Donaldson today announced that its Board of Directors declared a regular cash dividend of 19.0 cents per share, payable December 21, 2018, to shareholders of record on December 11, 2018. The Company has paid a cash dividend every quarter for 63 years and increased the dividend annually for more than 20 years.

LyondellBasell, one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world, today announced that it has declared a dividend of $1.00 per share, to be paid December 17, 2018 to shareholders of record December 10, 2018, with an ex-dividend date of December 7, 2018.

Insperity, a leading provider of human resources and business performance solutions for America's best businesses, today announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.20 per share. The cash dividend will be paid on December 28, 2018 to all stockholders of record as of December 13, 2018.

Gentex, the Zeeland, Michigan-based supplier of digital vision, connected car, dimmable glass, and fire protection technologies, today announced that its Board of Directors recently declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.11 per share that will be payable January 23, 2019, to shareholders of record of the common stock at the close of business on January 9, 2019.

For MarketNewsVideo.com, I'm Sayoko Murase.