9/16/09 pm Wed Dow closes 9791 up 108.3 or 1.12%

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Wednesday at 9791.71 up 108.3 or 1.12% from Monday's close of 9683.41. Of the 30 Dow Companies: 23 gained, 4 declined and 2 were unchanged (Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft) with the biggest loser being Verizon VZ $30.41 -0.59 1.9% 27,280,926 NYSE and the biggest gainer being IBM $121.82 +2.47 2.07% 10,697,909 NYSE.

The current divisor for the Dow found at today's page C4 of The Wall St. Jrnl is .132319125 unchanged.

Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1295.63 up 14.33 from Tuesday's closing Dow numerator of 1281.3. This is the sum of all 30 closing prices. A short cut to the Dow numerator is to multiply the closing Dow by the Divisor.

Now, if you divide the Dow numerator increase for today of 14.33 by the divisor you get 108.3, the increase in Wednesday's Dow close.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was 43.19 up 0.48 from Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing price of 42.71. The median closing price of Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was 40.25 up 1.33 from Wednesday's Dow Jones median closing price of 38.92.

The highest closing price Wednesday again was IBM $121.82 +2.47 2.07% 10,697,909 NYSE and the lowest closing price Wednesday again was Alcoa AA $14.47 +0.48 3.43% 44,208,957 NYSE.

The lowest volume Wednesday again was 3M MMM $75.38 +0.70 0.94% 2,720,821 NYSE and the highest volume again was Bank of Am BAC $17.25 +0.46 2.74% 188,874,918 NYSE.

If Wednesday morning before the market opened you had purchased $100 of each of the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 shares (assuming you could buy fractional shares and assuming no transaction costs) and sold at the close you would have made $1,440
($129,570 - $128,130)

Wednesday's Closing Dow closing numbers:
Symb/Last/Change/% Change/Vol./Market


T $26.54 -0.16 0.6% 25,325,871 NYSE
AA $14.47 +0.48 3.43% 44,208,957 NYSE
AXP $35.84 +1.19 3.43% 15,046,448 NYSE
BAC $17.25 +0.46 2.74% 188,874,918 NYSE
BA $52.36 +0.29 0.56% 5,047,485 NYSE
CAT $52.62 +0.92 1.78% 12,664,019 NYSE
CVX $72.45 +0.82 1.14% 10,783,498 NYSE
CSCO $23.36 +0.38 1.65% 52,950,443 NASDAQ-GS
KO $52.67 +0.22 0.42% 12,721,188 NYSE
DIS $28.37 +0.08 0.28% 9,917,259 NYSE
DD $33.9 +0.75 2.26% 7,929,781 NYSE
XOM $70.34 +0.85 1.22% 21,386,600 NYSE
GE $17 +1 6.25% 263,218,497 NYSE
HPQ $45.64 unch unch 13,401,121 NYSE
HD $28.06 +0.65 2.37% 17,502,540 NYSE
INTC $19.65 +0.10 0.51% 48,588,432 NASDAQ-GS
IBM $121.82 +2.47 2.07% 10,697,909 NYSE
JPM $44.65 +1.46 3.38% 38,184,398 NYSE
JNJ $60.19 +0.04 0.07% 10,389,442 NYSE
KFT $26.27 +0.19 0.73% 17,031,799 NYSE
MCD $56.47 +1.49 2.71% 16,889,981 NYSE
MRK $32.17 -0.53 1.62% 14,652,930 NYSE
MSFT $25.2 unch unch 48,992,631 NASDAQ-GS
PFE $16.42 +0.21 1.3% 45,100,377 NYSE
PG $55.31 +0.28 0.51% 12,377,476 NYSE
MMM $75.38 +0.70 0.94% 2,720,821 NYSE
TRV $48.85 -0.16 0.33% 5,230,984 NYSE
UTX $61.95 +0.66 1.08% 7,254,288 NYSE
VZ $30.41 -0.59 1.9% 27,280,926 NYSE
WMT $50.04 +0.11 0.22% 17,503,512 NYSE

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A read of Wednesday's 9/16/09 print editions of: Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Investors Business Daily, New York Times, Atl Journal Const, & USA Today and other print magazines yielded the following stories about Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 component companies and the Dow with stories about the Dow aggregated first and then items about Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 companies presented alphabetically, followed by symbol and Thursday's closing price and related data:

Dow: Equities Magazine, Summer Edition which was delivered by mail yesterday with the Sept. issue has an article by Michael Markowski at page 19 "Free cash flow can be used to predict the performance of the Dow" where he says that free cash-flow metrics are a predictor of accelerating or decelerating sernings, EBITDA, and revenue and have been acurae at predicting price performance of the 26 nonfinancial Dow nonfinancial components over the last 10 years. He says that based on this the "probability" is high that the Dow 30 and the other major indexes ahve likely seen their highs for 2009.

WSJ pC1 "At 9683.41, Dow Is At year's High by Peter A. McKay & Donna Kardos Yesalavich" says stocks rose to new highs for the year, led by materials and industrial companies, after Fed Res. Chrmn Ben Bernanke said the recession is likely over. Alcoa jumped 8.1%, Caterpillar rose 6% and GE was up 4.2%.

WSJ pC1 "At 9683.41, Dow Is At year's High by Peter A. McKay & donna kardos Yesalavich" says stocks rose to new highs for the year, led by materials and industrial companies, after Fed Res. Chrmn Ben Bernanke said the recession is likely over. Alcoa jumped 8.1%, Caterpillar rose 6% and GE was up 4.2%.

WSJ pC5 "Large Stock Focus - Caterpillar, GE pace Indexes to '09 Highs" says the continued steady stream of buying in Caterpillar, GE, DuPont and other industrial and materials companies paced all three major indexes to closng highs for the year. Side Bar "Good Nnews" charts GE as closing above $15 for first time since Jan. and being upgraded by Hilliard Lyons to long term buy.

Fin Times p26 "Wall Street - Bulls shrug off crisis of confidence in supermakrets" by Samantha Pearson & Michael Macknezie says a crisis of confidence in supermarket stocks was not enough to put off bullish investors yesterday as Wall Street climbed to fresh highs for almost a year and notes JNJ, JPM, BAC and Kraft all slipped.

NYT pB6 "Stocks & Bonds - Bernanke Speaks, and Markets Inch Higher" by Jack Healy says for weeks, many of Wall Street's hopeful voiceshavee been calling the end of the recession. And when the Fed Res Chrmn, Ben S. Bernanke, said the same was very likely on Tues., his comment helped stock markets rise to highs for the year.

USA Today p4B "Markets tuesday - Bernanke's news helps lift markets" says better news on retail sales and manufacturing helped send stocks higher tuesday, as did comments from Fed. res. Chairman ben bernanke that the recession was probably over. Surging materials and industrial companies such as Alcoa and Caterpillar helped pul the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a gain of 57 points in quiet trading.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Tuesday at 9683.41 up 56.61 or 0.59% from Monday's close of 9626.8. Of the 30 Dow Companies: 17 gained and 23 declined with the biggest loser being JPMorgan JPM $43.19 -0.56 1.28% 49,592,546 NYSE and the biggest gainer Caterpillar CAT $51.7 +2.93 6.01% 20,509,510 being NYSE.

The current divisor for the Dow found at today's page C4 of The Wall St. Jrnl is .132319125 unchanged. Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1281.3 up 7.49 from Monday's closing Dow numerator of 1273.81. This is the sum of all 30 closing prices. A short cut to the Dow numerator is to multiply the closing Dow by the Divisor. Now, if you divide the Dow numerator increase for today of 7.49 by the divisor you get 56.61, the increase in Tuesday's Dow close.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was 42.71 up Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing price of 42.46. The median closing price of Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was 38.92 up 0.09 from Monday's Dow Jones median closing price of 38.83.

The highest closing price Tuesday again was IBM $119.35 +0.47 0.4% 6,445,161 NYSE and the lowest closing price Tuesday again was Alcoa AA $13.99 +1.05 8.11% 49,453,980 NYSE. The lowest volume Tuesday again was 3M MMM 74.68 +0.12 0.16% 3,523,311 and the highest volume again was Bank of Am BAC $16.79 -0.20 1.18% 156,725,504 NYSE.

If Tuesday morning before the market opened you had purchased $100 of each of the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 shares (assuming you could buy fractional shares and assuming no transaction costs) and sold at the close you would have made $750
($128,130 - $127,380)

AT&T T $26.7 +0.17 0.64% 18,863,850 NYSE: WSJ pD6 "T-Mobile Drops Plan For paper Billing Fee" says it has dropped a plan to charge its customers $1.50 a month to get a paper copy of their bill in the mail. T-Mobiles main competitors, Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc. and Sprint Nextel all offer customers a free paper copy of a basic bill.

Alcoa AA $13.99 +1.05 8.11% 49,453,980 NYS: WSJ pC1 "At 9683.41, Dow Is At year's High by Peter A. McKay & Donna Kardos Yesalavich" says stocks rose to new highs for the year, led by materials and industrial companies, after Fed Res. Chrmn Ben Bernanke said the recession is likely over. Alcoa jumped 8.1%, Caterpillar rose 6% and GE was up 4.2%.

American Express AXP $34.65 +0.73 2.15% 15,494,366 NYSE: WSJ pC12 "Credit-Card Losses Ease but Not Much" by Aparajita Saha-Bubna says numbers released Tues indicate that consumers still are struggling. Issuers of plastic including JPM, BAC and AXP are coping with legislation that bite into income. AXP said US borrowers at least a month behind on card payments decreased to 4.1% from 4.2% in July. AXP wrote off 9% of is card loans in Aug up from 9.2% in July.

Bank of Am BAC $16.79 -0.20 1.18% 156,725,504 NYSE: WSJ pC1 "BofA Ruling Questions an SEC Weapon" by Kara Scanell says that for decades the SEC has resolved more than 90% of its investigations through settlements and that the recent rebuke from a federal judge could bring tougher scrutiny of other settlements over alleged wrongdoing.

WSJ pC1 "Wells CEO: Wachovia Losses Are Manageable" by Marshall Eckblad & Matthias Rieker says Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf said the availability of the 30 year mortgages depends on the US gov's purchase of such loans from lenders. Wells Fargo is the third largest US bank in stock market value behind JPM and Bank of America.

WSJ pC3 "BofA Fights Ex-Merrill Brokerage Chief" by Susanne Craig says Robert McCann is in an employment fight with BAC in NY State Supreme court where he says he was ousted after BofA bought Merrill. He wants to work at USB and BAC says he has a noncompete.

WSJ pC3 "Law Firms Put in Unfamiliar Spot - Wachtell, Shearman Under Scrutiny for Advisory Roles in BofA Merrill Deal" by Nathan Koppel, Ashby Jones & Amir Efrati says US Dist. Judge Jed Rakoff rejected the SEC settlement and asked why aren't penalties sought from the law firms involved?

Similar story at Fin Times p16 "Judge Rakoff rocks the SEC boat" by Greg Farrell.

WSJ pC12 "Credit-Card Losses Ease but Not Much" by Aparajita Saha-Bubna says numbers released Tues indicate that consumers still are struggling. Issuers of plastic including JPM, BAC and AXP are coping with legislation that bite into income. AXP said US borrowers at least a month behind on card payments decreased to 4.1% from 4.2% in July. AXP wrote off 9% of is card loans in Aug up from 9.2% in July.

Fin Times p26 "Wall Street - Bulls shrug off crisis of confidence in supermarkets" by Samantha Pearson & Michael Macknezie says a crisis of confidence in supermarket stocks was not enough to put off bullish investors yesterday as Wall Street climbed to fresh highs for almost a year. BAC lost 1.2%.

BA $52.07 +1.10 2.16% 6,529,324 NYSE: No mentions found.

Caterpillar CAT $51.7 +2.93 Ddonna Kardos Yesalavich" says stocks rose to new highs for the year, led by materials and industrial companies, after Fed Res. Chrmn Ben Bernanke said the recession is likely over. Alcoa jumped 8.1%, Caterpillar rose 6% and GE was up 4.2%.

WSJ pC5 "Large Stock Focus - Caterpillar, GE pace Indexes to '09 Highs" says the continued steady stream of buying in Caterpillar, GE, DuPont and other industrial and materials companies paced all three major indexes to closing highs for the year. Side Bar "Good News" charts GE as closing above $15 for first time since Jan. and being upgraded by Hilliard Lyons to long term buy.

CVX $71.63 +0.59 0.83% 10,246,314 NYSE: No mentions found.

CSCO $22.98 +0.19 0.83% 50,576,862 NASDAQ-GS: No mentions found.

Coke KO $52.45 +0.29 0.56% 13,659,774 NYS: WSJ pC15 "Fund Track by Sam Mamudi says Gabelli, an affiliate of fund manager Gamco Investors likes KO and values it based on what a private buyer might pay for the entire enteprise and says "people aren't gong to stop drinking Coke." KO is up 5.2% since July 31 compared with 6.6% for the S&P 500.

Fulton Daily Report p6 says KO CEO Muhtar Kent said the idea of a federal tax on soft drinks, under consideration by the US Congress and Pre. Obama is "outrageous."

AJC pA14 "Coke's Heist ad gives company first Emmy" says a Super Bowl ad gave KO its first ever Emmy Award.

DIS $28.29 +0.21 0.75% 10,549,684 NYSE: No mentions found.

DuPont DD $33.15 +0.87 2.7% 7,963,780 NYSE: WSJ pC5 "Large Stock Focus - Caterpillar, GE pace Indexes to '09 Highs" says the continued steady stream of buying in Caterpillar, GE, DuPont and other industrial and materials companies paced all three major indexes to closing highs for the year. Side Bar "Good News" charts GE as closing above $15 for first time since Jan. and being upgraded by Hilliard Lyons to long term buy.

XOM $69.49 -0.51 0.73% 19,041,456 NYSE: No mentions found.

GE $16 +0.65 4.23% 207,857,338 NYSE: WSJ pA5 "How Buy american Can Hurt US Firms" by Peter Fritsch & Corey Boles says, for example, that while some companies have flexibility to shift production to the US, others don't such as GE who assembles complex wastewater treatment systems in Canada with parts from Europe. US gov rules state that projects receiving stimulus funds can use foreign parts so long as they are assembled in the US. The analogy used by the EPA: a Toyota made in US is fine, but a Ford made in Canada isn't.

WSJ pB5 "Jay Leno Show Comes Up Big On Debut Night" by Sam Schechner says about 18.4 million people watched Leno's 10 pm debut making it the most watched TV program on Monday. It was NBC's highest audience at 10 pm since the Summer Olympics. NBC is a unit of NBC Universal which is 80% owned by GE and 20% owned by Vivendi SA.

WSJ pB5 "Murdoch Says Ad markets Are Improved" by Nat Worden says News corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch said US ad markets were much better than 4 months ago and that the company is mulling plans to charge online subscriptions for Hulu, the video Web site that news Corp. launched with big media partners including GE's NBC Universal.

WSJ pC1 "At 9683.41, Dow Is At year's High by Peter A. McKay & Donna Kardos Yesalavich" says stocks rose to new highs for the year, led by materials and industrial companies, after Fed Res. Chrmn Ben Bernanke said the recession is likely over. Alcoa jumped 8.1%, Caterpillar rose 6% and GE was up 4.2%.

WSJ pC5 "Large Stock Focus - Caterpillar, GE pace Indexes to '09 Highs" says the continued steady stream of buying in Caterpillar, GE, DuPont and other industrial and materials companies paced all three major indexes to closing highs for the year. Side Bar "Good News" charts GE as closing above $15 for first time since Jan. and being upgraded by Hilliard Lyons to long term buy.

HPQ $45.64 -0.06 0.13% 10,899,178 NYSE: No mentions found.

HD $27.41 -0.10 0.36% 9,899,832 NYSE: No mentions found.

Intel INTC $19.55 +0.19 0.98% 47,784,311 NASDAQ-GS: WSJ pB4 "Apple Hires Top Lawyer Who Left Job at Intel" by Kevin Kingsbury & Don Clark says Apple hired D. Bruce Sewell as its new general counsel, one day after Intel said the exec was resigning amid a management reorganization.

IBM $119.35 +0.47 0.4% 6,445,161 NYSE: No mentions found.

JPMorgan JPM $43.19 -0.56 1.28% 49,592,546 NYSE: Newseek 9/21/09 at p47 "The Banker Who Saved Wall Street - How JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Bailed Out Bear Stearns And The Federal Government - and Lived To Turn A Profit" by Duff McDonald profiles Jamie Dimon and the event surrounding Sept. 18, 2008.

WSJ pC1 "Wells CEO: Wachovia Losses Are Manageable" by marshall Eckblad & Matthias Rieker says Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf said the availability of the 30 year mortgages depends on the US gov's purchase of such loans from lenders. Wells Fargo is the third largest US bank in stock market value behind JPM and Bank of America.

WSJ pC3 "Evidence Is at Issue Ahead of Bear Trial" by Chad Bray says 2 ex Bear Stearns fund managers have asked a fed judge to prohibit prosecutors from introducing evidence during their trial next month when they will be tried for misleading investors about the health of two funds that collapsed in '07. The closing of the funds marked the start of the fall of Bear which was bought by JPM in March '08.

WSJ pC6 "Deal of the Week" by Maura Webber Sadovi says Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance of Milwaukee paid JPM $115 mil in cash for an empty 42 story office complex in Seattle that was the former headquarters of Washington Mutual the collapsed Seattle thrift taken over by JPM.

WSJ pC12 "Credit-Card Losses Ease but Not Much" by Aparajita Saha-Bubna says numbers released Tues indicate that consumers still are struggling. Issuers of plastic including JPM, BAC and AXP are coping with legislation that bite into income. AXP said US borrowers at least a month behind on card payments decreased to 4.1% from 4.2% in July. AXP wrote off 9% of is card loans in Aug up from 9.2% in July.

Fin Times p26 "Wall Street - Bulls shrug off crisis of confidence in supermakrets" by Samantha Pearson & Michael Macknezie says a crisis of confidence in supermarket stocks was not enough to put off bullish investors yesterday as Wall Street climbed to fresh highs for almost a year. JPM slipped 1.3%.

Johnson & Johnson JNJ $60.15 -0.19 0.31% 8,118,828 NYSE: Fin Times p26 "Wall Street - Bulls shrug off crisis of confidence in supermakrets" by Samantha Pearson & Michael Macknezie says a crisis of confidence in supermarket stocks was not enough to put off bullish investors yesterday as Wall Street climbed to fresh highs for almost a year. JNJ said it wold reduce by $11m to $885 mil the amount it would pay for an 18.4% stake in elan to appease a dispute between Elan and Biogen. JNJ shares were down 0.3%.

Kraft KFT $26.08 -0.03 0.11% 13,588,937 NYS: Fin Times p12 "Should a brand's heritage be a concern to shareholders? is the question asked to experts in the face of Kraft's bid for Cadbury, a UK institution.

Related story at Fin Times p120 "Cadbury chief to confront investors - Todd Stitzer to be pressed on growth plans - Case will be made for independence" by Jenny Wiggins Julie Macintosh says Cadbury's ceo is under pressure to respond to investors' questions in the face of Kraft's $16.8 takeover bid.

Fin Times p26 "Wall Street - Bulls shrug off crisis of confidence in supermakrets" by Samantha Pearson & Michael Macknezie says a crisis of confidence in supermarket stocks was not enough to put off bullish investors yesterday as Wall Street climbed to fresh highs for almost a year. Kraft caem back into focus after its recent takeover bid for Cadbury and slipped 0.1%.

MCD $54.98 +0.75 1.38% 14,011,092 NYSE: No mentions found.

MRK $32.7 -0.19 0.58% 15,139,779 NYSE: No mentions found.

MSFT $25.2 +0.20 0.8% 44,034,950 NASDAQ-GS: No mentions found.

PFE $16.21 -0.15 0.92% 39,676,045 NYSE: No mentions found.

Procter & Gamble PG $55.03 -0.27 0.49% 11,427,753 NYSE: WSJ pC6 says real estate says are gong online and gives an example of a PG complex in Dayton, Ohio being for sale by bidding online.

MMM $74.68 +0.12 0.16% 3,523,311 NYSE: No mentions found.

TRV $49.01 +0.02 0.04% 4,399,267 NYSE: No mentions found.

UTX $61.29 -0.27 0.44% 5,350,289 NYSE: No mentions found.

Verizon VZ $31 0.07 -0.23% 12,373,244 NYSE: WSJ pD6 "T-Mobile Drops Plan For paper Billing Fee" says it has dropped a plan to charge its customers $1.50 a month to get a paper copy of their bill in the mail. T-Mobiles main competitors, Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc. and Sprint Nextel all offer customers a free paper copy of a basic bill.

WalMart WMT $49.93 -0.45 0.89% 26,236,869 NYSE: WSJ pB3 has an item that it is expanding its mail order drug program that it launched in Michigan and is similar to CVS Caremark's.

Here are the latest SEC filings as of 9/4/09 other than ownership filings and, except for certain cases, I do not include third party shareholder proposals:

Symbol & Co. Name/Date of Filing/Form Filed/ Comments

T AT&T: 8/28/09 two 8K's, one: annoucning it had reached agreement with the Communications Workers of America (on a new, three-year contract covering approximately 7,000 wireline employees (located across the U.S.) under the CWA Communications and Technologies contract, subject to approval by these employees. The second 8K said two subsidiaries of Tprovided redeemed certain long-term debt issues as of September 28, 2009.

Alcoa AA: 8/29/09 8K announcing that Alain J. P. Belda, executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of AA retired as an executive officer but is staying on as a director until April 23, 2010.

American Express AXP: 9/2/09 10Q

Bank of Am BAC: a free writing prospectus regarding issuance of $74 million in debt securities.

Boeing BA: 8/31 8K announcing the retirement of Scott E. Carson, Executive Vice President, President and Chief Executive Officer, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, effective January 1, 2010. Effective September 1, 2009, Mr. Carson will leave his current position and assume the role of Executive Vice President. Carson will be replaced by James F. Albaugh.

8/27 8K announcing a revised schedule for the 787 Dreamliner and a charge to third quarter earnings related to flight test aircraft.

Caterpiller CAT: 8/20/09 8K CAT filed Reg FD information concerning deliveries to users for its Machinery and Engines lines of business.

Chevron CVX: 8/6/09 10Q

Cisco CSCO: 8/5/09 8K CSCO reported its results of operations for its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year 2009 ended July 25, 2009.

Coke KO: 7/30/09 10Q

Disney DIS: 8/31/09 8K announcing a merger between its subsidiary, Maverick Acquisition Sub, Inc., and its subsidiary, Maverick Merger Sub, LLC, a single member Delaware limited liability company and Marvel Entertainment, Inc.. As a result of the Merger, Marvel will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney. Each share of Marvel common stock will be converted into $30 in cash and 0.7452 shares of Disney common stock.

DuPont DD: 8/13/09 8K announcing Nicholas C. Fanandakis, age 53, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer & Chief Executive effective September 1, 2009 with an increase in annual salary from $387,708 to $500,000 and target short-term incentive award for 2009 will increase from $328,500 to $464,100. Mr. Fanandakis was named to his current position, Group Vice President- Applied BioSciences, in January 2008. Prior to that, he was vice president and general manager- DuPont Chemical Solutions Enterprise from September 2003 through September 2006 and vice president- Corporate Plans from October 2006 through December 2007. Jeffrey L. Keefer, EVP and Chief Financial Officer, will remain EVP and transition from the position of Chief Financial Officer to assume leadership responsibility for the DD's Performance Coatings business, corporate strategy development, Information Technology and overall cost and working capital productivity efforts effective November 1, 2009. Richard R. Goodmanson, EVP and Chief Operating Officer will retire effective September 30, 2009.

ExxonMobil XOM: 8/5/09 10Q

GE: 8/4/09 8K GE reached a settlement with the SEC & consented to a judgment of a fine of $50 million relating to four accounting matters arising in 2002 - 2003: the application of SFAS 133 to GE’s since-discontinued commercial paper hedging program and, separately, to certain swap derivatives where fees were paid or received at inception; a change in accounting for profits on spare parts in the commercial aviation engine business; and certain year-end transactions in the Rail business.

Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 8/18/09 8K re: release of 731/09 3Q results

Home Depot HD: 8/26 8K announcing amendments to their By-Laws dealing with resignations of directors.

Intel INTC: 9/2/09 8K announcing that as a result of stronger than expected demand for microprocessors and chipsets, Intel now expects revenue for the third quarter to be $9.0 billion, plus or minus $200 million, as compared to the previous range of $8.5 billion, plus or minus $400 million. The gross margin percentage for the third quarter is expected to be in the upper half of the previous range of 53 percent, plus or minus two percentage points. The company is scheduled to report its third-quarter financial results on Oct. 13.

IBM: 7/28/09 10Q

JPMorganChase JPM: 9/2/09 Free Writing Prospectus relating to Core commodity C-IGAR Sigma Long-Short Index

Johnson & Johnson JNJ: 8/4/09 10Q

Kraft KFT: 8/5/09 10Q

McDonalds MCD: 8/11/09 re: press release "McDonald’s Reports Global Comparable Sales Up 4.3% in July"

Merck MRK: 8/3/09 Sched 14A proxy material re: updated of acquisition of Schering-Plough

Microsoft MSFT: 8/24/09 S-8 Securities to be offered to employees in employee benefit plans

Pfizer PFE: 9/2/09 8K announcing an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle an investigation regarding off-label promotional practices related to Bextra, which Pfizer withdrew from the market in 2005 and other DOJ investigations involving off-label promotional practices concerning Zyvox, Geodon and Lyrica, and allegations related to payments to healthcare professionals involving these and nine other Pfizer medicines. Pfizer previously disclosed a related $2.3 billion charge to its fourth-quarter and full-year 2008 earnings in connection with the DOJ agreement in principle on January 26, 2009. PFE has reached agreements with attorneys general in 432 states to settle state civil consumer protection allegations regarding promotional practices concerning Geodon. PFE will pay a total of $33 million to the settling states.

Procter & Gamble PG: 8/28/09 S-8 Securities to employees and 8/28 8K annoucning public offering of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.150% Notes due 2015.
Also a PG subsidiary, Procter & Gamble International Funding SCA issued $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 1.350% Notes due 2011.

3M MMM: 8/5/09 3M contributed 8,329,862 shares of its common stock with a corresponding dollar value of approximately $600 million to its defined benefit pension plan, the 3M Employee Retirement Income Plan, made from treasury stock.

Travelers TRV: 8/5/09 10Q/A Amended 10Q

United Technologies UTX: 7/24/09 10Q

Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 9/2/09: 8K annoucning retirement of Dennis F. Strigl, President and Chief Operating Officer of Verizon Communications Inc. (at end of '09 and also VZ raised its quarterly dividend 3.3% to 47.5 Cents per share. This is the third consecutive year that VZ has approved a quarterly dividend increase in September.

Wal-Mart WMT: 8/13/09 8K re 7/31/09 2Q report of earnings

Here are the CEOs of the Dow 30 Companies:

T Randall L. Stephenson
AA Klaus Kleinfeld
AXP Kenneth I. Chenault
BAC Kenneth D. Lewis
BA W. James McNerney, Jr.
CAT James W. Owens
CVX David O'Reilly
CSCO John Chambers
KO Muhtar Kent
DIS Rogert Iger
DD Nicholas C. Fanandakis replaced Ellen Kullman 9/1/09
XOM Rex W. Tillerson
GE Jeffrey R. Immelt
HPQ Mark Hurd
HD Frank Blake
INTC Paul S. Otellini
IBM Samuel J. Palmisano
JPM Jamie Dimon
JNJ William C. Weldon
KFT Irene Rosenfeld
MCD Jim Skinner
MRK Robert Clark
MSFT Steve Ballmer
PFE Jeffrey Kindler
PG Bob McDonald
MMM George W. Buckley
TRV Jay S. Fishman
UTX Louis Chenevert
VZ Ivan Seidenberg
WMT Mike Duke