Activity this week

Increased dividends Aircastle .26 from .24 Archrock .12 from .095 Ares Capital .38 from .28 Aarons .0275 from .025 CDW .16 from .1075 Cedar Fair .855 from .825 Chase Corp. .70 from .65 Chimera Investment .50 from .48

Community Healthcare Tr .385 from .3825 Dine Equity .97 from .92 Emerson Electric .48 from .475

Enviva Partners .53 from .525

Estee Lauder Cos. .34 from .30

Fidelity National Finl .25 from .21

Financial Institutions .21 from .20

Gramercy Property Tr .125 from .11

Great Plains Energy .2750 from .2625

Huntington Ingalls Indust .60 from .50 Innospec .34 from .33 J2 Global .355 from .345 Oshkosh .21 from .19 Schweitzer-Mauduit .42 from .40

Spectra Energy Partners .67625 from .6638

Utah Medical Products .265 from .26 Vectren .42 from .40 g- Canadian funds

Extra or special dividends

James River 1.35

Initial dividends

Spirit Aerosystems Holdings .10

Stock splits this week

Dry Ships 1-for-15 reverse split

Harvest Natural Resources 1-for-3 reverse split

Intercontinental Exchange 5-for-1 split

Acquisitions and mergers Minimum value $100 million Monster Worldwide Randstad North America (429M)

Rackspace Hosting Apollo Global Management (4.3B)

Silicon Graphics International-Hewlett Packard (275M)

Tobira Therapeutics Alergan 91.7B)

New stock listings NYSE Acushnet Holdings Alcoa Amtrust Financial Services Inc pfd F

Lamb Weston Holdings Inc when issued

ZTO Express Cayman Inc Nasdaq Global and Global Select Markets GDS Holdings ADS Liberty Expedia Hldgs series A B

Stocks removed from trading NYSE Crown Castle International Corp 4.5pc pfd A

Partnerre Ltd 6pc pfd D

Partnerre Ltd 7.25pc pfd E

Performance Sports Group

Stag Industrial 9pc pfd A Violin Memory Zias Financial Nasdaq Global and Global Select Markets Full Circle Capital Great Elm Capital Smart Sand TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals

Corporate name changes

Alcoa 5.375pc pfd to Arconic 5375pc B

Biodel to Albireo Pharma

Full Circle Capital 8.25pc notes to Great Elm Capital 8.25pc notes