Accenture has declared a semi-annual cash dividend of $1.02 per share on Accenture Class A ordinary shares for shareholders of record at the close of business on Oct. 17, 2014, and Accenture SCA will declare a semi-annual cash dividend of $1.02 per share on Accenture SCA Class I common shares for shareholders of record at the close of business on Oct. 14, 2014. Both dividends are payable on Nov. 17, 2014. This represents an increase of $0.09 per share, or 10 percent, over the company's previous semi-annual dividend, declared in March.

Western Asset Mortgage Capital (WMC) has declared a cash dividend of $0.70 per share for the third quarter of 2014. Today's dividend is payable on October 28, 2014 to common shareholders of record as of October 3, 2014, with an ex-dividend date of October 1, 2014.

Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) declared a cash dividend of $0.3125 per share payable on November 3, 2014 to holders of record as of October 15, 2014 for its common stock.

General Mills declared a quarterly dividend at the prevailing rate of $0.41 per share, payable Nov. 3, 2014, to shareholders of record Oct. 10, 2014.

Con-way (CNW) declared a cash dividend of 15 cents per share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable on December 12, 2014 to shareholders of record on November 14, 2014.

And, CARBO Ceramics (CRR) has approved the payment of a dividend on November 17, 2014 of $0.33 per share to shareholders of record on November 3, 2014.

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