S&T Bancorp (Indiana, Pennsylvania): Repurchased all outstanding CPP preferred shares from Treasury's original investment in the institution totaling $108.7 million and paid accrued dividends totaling $332,066.

Texaco Canada said the special dividend, totaling $785 million, is intended to make it easier to sell the company.

In 2002, Prudential, which has no ties to the Prudential Insurance Company of America, paid dividends totaling 26 pence (41 cents), compared with payments of 25.4 pence in 2001.

Shares of Ford rose $4.8125, to $57.0625, although experts said the increase mainly reflected a continued reaction to the company's announcement on Friday that it would spin off its auto parts subsidiary, Visteon, and pay a special dividend totaling $10 billion.

Last month the company said it wanted to sell most of its assets and pay special dividends totaling $35.50 a share.

Prices of the Beatrice Company's high-yield bonds dipped 1 to 2 percentage points yesterday in response to a published report that the company might pay its equity investors special dividends totaling as much as $800 million.

Fighting off an unwanted takeover bid, DeSoto, a paint and detergents producer, surged 5 1/2, to 45, in heavy trading after saying it would pay stockholders special dividends totaling as much as $28.

Per-share income in both quarters follows preferred dividends totaling $27.6 million.

The couple also reported $446,437 in taxable interest from investments, dividends totaling $43,805 and business income of $84 from the president's former career in the oil industry.

Endesa, the Spanish power company trying to fend off a hostile bid from Gas Natural of Spain, said yesterday that it would offer a dividend totaling 2.54 billion euros ($3.07 billion) to shareholders, as it reported a surge in profits.