Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) will raise its quarterly dividend by 6.2 percent from 0.40 to $0.425 per share in the first quarter of 2007. The ex-date for the next dividend is February 13, 2007.

The increased dividend is payable March 9, 2007, to shareholders of Eli Lilly and Co of record ...

Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM) will raise its quarterly dividend to $0.12 per share.

Agnico Eagle Mines Limited is a gold producer with mining operations in northwestern Quebec, northern Mexico, northern Finland and Nunavut and exploration activities in Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. The company focuses on the exploration, development, and expansion ...

ABM Industries (ABM) will raise its quarterly dividend to $0.12 per share.

ABM Industries Incorporated is a provider of integrated facility solutions. The Company operates through five segments: Janitorial, Facility Services, Parking, Building & Energy Solutions, and other. ABM provides custom facility solutions in urban, suburban and rural areas to properties of all sizes ...

Aircastle (AYR) will raise its quarterly dividend to $0.4375 per share.

Aircastle Limited is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries the company is engaged in investing in aviation assets, including acquiring, leasing, managing and selling utility commercial jet aircraft. 

Balchem Corporation (BCPC) will raise its annual dividend to $0.06 per share (split adjusted).

Balchem Corporation is engaged in the development, manufacture, distribution and marketing of specialty performance ingredients and products for the food, nutritional, feed, pharmaceutical and medical sterilization industries. 

Boeing (BA) will raise its quarterly dividend by 16.7 percent to $0.35 per share in 2006. Last year BA increased its quarterly dividend by twenty percent.

The Boeing Company is an aerospace firm. Boeing develops, produces, and markets commercial jet aircraft and provides related support services to the commercial airline industry. The Company ...

Axis Capital (AXS) will raise its quarterly dividend to $0.165 per share.

AXIS Capital Holdings Limited is a Bermuda-based global provider of specialty lines insurance and treaty reinsurance. The Company provides a range of specialty (re)insurance, through subsidiaries and branch networks- based in Bermuda, the United States, Canada, Europe and Singapore.

Barrett Business Services (BBSI) will start paying a quarterly dividend of $0.07 per share.

The cash dividend will be paid on December 21, 2006 to all stockholders of record as of November 30, 2006.

Barrett Business Services, Inc. is a provider of business management solutions for small and mid-sized companies. The Company has developed ...

American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (AEL) will raise its annual dividend to $0.05 per share.

American Equity Investment Life Holding Company, through its wholly-owned operating subsidiaries, issues fixed annuity and life insurance products, with a primary emphasis on the sale of fixed index and fixed rate annuities.