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Weekly Summary Corporate dividends, name changes, new listings

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Changes announced in corporate dividends Jun. 27-Jul. 1.

INCREASED DIVIDENDS

Bank of the Ozarks .16 from .155

Darden Restaurants .56 from .50

Empire Resources .04 from .025

Worthington Industries .20 from .20

g- Canadian funds

OTHER CORPORATE NEWS AND LISTINGS

DECLARED STOCK SPLITS

Core-Mark Holding Company 2 for 1 split

STOCK SPLITS THIS WEEK

Axcelis Technologies 1 for 4 reverse split

China Ceramics Co 1 for 8 reverse split

Elbit Imaging Ltd 1 for 3 reverse split

Oculus Innovative Sciences 1 for 5 reverse split

ACQUISITIONS AND MERGERS

MINIMUM VALUE $100 MILLION

B. Riley Financial Inc – United Online Inc(170M)

Emera Inc – TECO Energy Inc(6.6B)

Pfizer Anacor Pharmaceuticals Inc(5.2B)

Southern Company – AGL Resources Inc(8B)

Townebank – Monarch Financial Inc(220M)

TransCanada PipeLine USA Ltd – Columbia Pipeline Group(13B)

NEW STOCK LISTINGS

NYSE

Dynergy Inc 7pc pfd

HarbourOne Bancorp Inc

KKR & Co 6.5pc pfd B

NASDAQ GLOBAL AND GLOBAL SELECT MARKETS

Government Property Income Trust (from NYSE)

Hospitality Property Trust (from NYSE)

Hospitality Prop Tr pfd D (from NYSE)

Real Estate Income Fund (from NYSE)

Select Income REIT (from NYSE)

Senior Housing Property Trust (from NYSE)

TravelCenters of America (from NYSE)

STOCKS REMOVED FROM TRADING

NYSE

Southcoast Financial Corp

OIBR Oi SA

NASDAQ GLOBAL AND GLOBAL SELECT MARKETS

The Phoenix Companies Inc

CORPORATE NAME CHANGES

Greatbatch Inc to Integer Holdings Corp

UBIC Inc ADS to FRONTEO Inc ADS