 Shares of Verizon Communications Inc. VZ, -1.22 rose 0.2 in premarket trading Tuesday, after the telecommunications company raised its quarterly dividend by 2, to extend its lead has the highest-yielding Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.07 component. Verizon said the new dividend of 65.25 cents a share, up from 64.00 cents a share, will be payable Nov. 1 to shareholders of record on Oct. 7. 