Increased dividends

Quarterly unless noted otherwise

Avista Corp 21(cents) from 18(cents)

Buckeye GP LP 35(cents) from 33(cents)

Buckeye Partners 90(cents) from 88.8(cents)

Chesapeake Utils 31.5(cents) from 30.5(cents)

Natl Healthcare 26(cents) from 24(cents)

PepsiCo Inc 45(cents) from 42.5(cents)

RLI Corp 27(cents) from 26(cents)

Steris Corp 11(cents) from 8(cents)

Tower Group 7(cents) from 5(cents)

Omitted, suspended dividends

Blue Chip Value Fund

Ferro Corp

Global Ship Lease

Magna International

Midwest Banc cv pfA

Wabco Holdings

Reduced dividends

Apartment Mgmt 10(cents) from 60(cents)

Ares Capital 35(cents) from 42(cents)

Atlas Pipeline Ptrs 15(cents) from 38(cents)

BancTrust Fncl 1(cents) from 25(cents)

Biovail Corp 9(cents) from 37.5(cents)

Camden Property Tr 45(cents) from 70(cents)

Cognex Corp 5(cents) from 15(cents)

Corporate Exec Bd 10(cents) from 44(cents)

FirstMerit Corp 16(cents) from 29(cents)

Hardinge Inc 0.5(cents) from 1(cents)

Hercules Tech 30(cents) from 32(cents)

Hersha Hospit 5(cents) from 18(cents)

Imperial Sugar 2(cents) from 7(cents)

Jones Lang LaSalle 10(cents) from 25(cents)

Kimco Realty 6(cents) from 44(cents)

Knoll Inc 2(cents) from 12(cents)

Legg Mason 3(cents) from 24(cents)

Macerich Co 60(cents) from 80(cents)

Prologis 15(cents) from 25(cents)

Simon Property Grp 60(cents) from 90(cents)

Sothebys 5(cents) from 15(cents)

Sovran Self Strg 45(cents) from 64(cents)

Student Loan Corp 35(cents) from $1.43

Union Bankshs VA 6(cents) from 12(cents)

Unitrin 20(cents) from 47(cents)

Valley Financial 4(cents) from 7(cents)

Wilber Corp 6(cents) from 95(cents)

Annual earnings lower

McKesson Corp 2.95 vs 3.32

Chapter 11

Affiliated Foods Southwest, Little Rock, Ark.

Crucible Materials Corp, Syracuse, N.Y.

Filene's Basement

Norwood Promotional Products, Indianapolis, Ind.

Source Interlink Cos (SORC)

Acquisitions, mergers

Minimum value $100 million

Open Text - Vignette ($310M)

Vista Equity Partners - SumTotal Systems ($146M)

Stocks removed from trading

NASDAQ Global and Global Select Markets

EPIX Pharmaceuticals Inc (to Capital Market)

FX Real Estate & Entertainment Inc

Orange 21 Inc (to Capital Market)

Spansion Inc

Technology Solutions Co

Wavecom SA ADS

Corporate Name Changes

Reliant Energy Inc to RRI Energy Inc

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