 NEW YORK AP Changes announced in corporate dividends Mar. 9-Mar. 13. INCREASED DIVIDENDS Alaska Communications .09 from .05 American Tower Corp 1.08 from 1.01 Applied Materials Inc .22 from .21 CareTrust REIT .25 from .225 Colgate-Palmolive Co .44 from .43 Dicks Sporting Goods .3125 from .275 Dollar General Corp .36 from .32 Equity Residential .6025 from .5675 Flanigans Enterprises .30 from .28 Gentex Corp .12 from .115 Hurco Companies .13 from .12 Investors Title .44 from .40 Sun Communities .79 from .75 SPECIAL DIVIDENDS Euro Tech Hldgs Co Ltd .42 INITIAL DIVIDENDS Reynolds Cnsmr Prducts .15 g- Canadian funds OTHER CORPORATE NEWS AND LISTINGS: STOCK SPLITS THIS WEEK Independence Contract Drilling 1 for 20 reverse split ACQUISITIONS AND MERGERS MINIMUM VALUE 350 MILLION Zayo Group Holdings - EQT Infrastructure IVDigital Colony Partners 8B STOCKS REMOVED FROM TRADING NASDAQ GLOBAL AND GLOBAL SELECT MARKETS Foamix Pharmaceuticals Inc CORPORATE NAME CHANGES CTI Industries Corp to Yunhong CTI Ltd Spherix Inc to Aikido Pharma Inc 