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A read of Friday's 9/4/09 print editions of: Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Investors Business Daily, New York Times, Atl Journal Const, & USA Today & 9/4-9/10 issue of Atlanta Business Chronicle 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: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Thursday at 9344.61 up 63.94 or 0.69% from Wednesday's close of 9280.67. Of the 30 Dow Companies: 14 gained and 16 declined with the biggest loser being Cisco CSCO $21.49 -0.06 0.28% 33,734,624NASDAQ-GS and the biggest gainer being Caterpillar CAT $45.04 +1.53 3.52% 8,768,213 NYSE.

WSJ pC1 "Stocks Break Losing Run: Dow Up 63.94" says stocks snapped their four day losing streak even as many investors remained cautious ahead of Aug. jobs data due out Fri. morning. Alcoa led the gains, up 4%, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of Am both rose more than 3%.

WSJ pC5 "Large Stock Focus - Caterpillar, Costco Join The Charge" says ahead of a key gauge on the labor market Friday morning, some of the more indsutrial of companies, including Caterpillar and GE, paced an uptick in stocks Thurs., while the gov backed banks staged another rally.

Fin Times p20 "Wall Street - Uncertainty persists in spite of postive data from retailers" says US stocks crept up yesterday to break a four day losing streak, as ivnestors braced themselves ahead of today's job data and mentions BAC up 3.5% and JPM up 3.1% and that although WalMart no longer contributes monthly sales figures to same store sales index its shares cimbed 1.6% as it was expected to have been popular with frugal back to school shoppers. It also says that gold prices, which hovered around a 3 month high, helped boost mining stocks. Alcoa lifted the mood in the materials sector as Alcoa raised its forecast for global demand citing stimulus spending in China.

Fin Times p15 "Flurry of new deals changes the mood" says for the first time in 2 years, a flurry of media dealmaking is creating excitement for media acquisitions. This week, Disney agreed to buy Marvel for $4 bil and the article mentions News Corp's invitation to bid on Dow Jones Indexes as reported on Aug. 15. Story also mentions that people doubt there will be a sale of NBC Universal by GE & Vivendi.

NYT pB7 "Stocks & Bonds - Financials Rise, Helping to End 4 Losing Days for S&P 500" says stocks rose, snapping a 4 day losing streak for the S&P 500 stock index, as some retail stores reported sales that topped projections and Chinese equities rallied the most in 6 months. Alcoa and Caterpillar led the Dow Jones Industrial Average higher after a 4.8% advance in the Shanghai Composite Index. Amgen, the largest biotech company, and Merck slid more than 1% after Pres. Obama said he would take a more direct role in the legislative fight over health care.

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

Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1236.47 up 8.46 from Wednesday's closing Dow numerator of 1228.01. 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 8.46 by the divisor you get 63.94, the increase in Thursday's Dow close.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was 41.22 up 0.31 from Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing price of 40.93. The median closing price of Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was 37.29 up 0.88 from Wednesday's Dow Jones median closing price of 36.41.

The highest closing price Thursday again was IBM $116.33 +0.24 0.21% 4,929,867 NYSE and the lowest closing price Wednesday again was Alcoa AA $12.01 +0.46 3.98% 24,935,909 NYSE. The lowest volume Thursday again was MMM $71.02 +0.44 0.62% 3,192,784 NYSE and the highest volume again was BAC $16.84 +0.57 3.5% 172,431,877 NYSE. If Thursday 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 $870
($123,660 - $122,790)

T $25.15 -0.22 0.87% 27,511,394 NYSE: No mentions found.

Alcoa AA $12.01 +0.46 3.98% 24,935,909 NYSE: WSJ pC1 "Stocks Break Losing Run: Dow Up 63.94" says stocks snapped their four day losing streak even as many investors remained cautious ahead of Aug. jobs data due out Fri. morning. Alcoa led the gains, up 4%, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of Am both rose more than 3%.

Fin Times p20 "Wall Street - Uncertainty persists in spite of postive data from retailers" says US stocks crept up yesterday to break a four day losing streak, as investors braced themselves ahead of today's job data and mentions BAC up 3.5% and JPM up 3.1% and that although WMT no longer contributes monthly sales figures to same store sales index its shares cimbed 1.65 as it was expected to have been popular with frugal back to school shoppers. It also says that gold prices, which hovered around a 3 month high, helped boost mining stocks. Alcoa lifted the mood in the materials sector as Alcoa raised its forecast for global demand citing stimulus spending in China.

NYT pB7 "Stocks & Bonds - Financials Rise, Helping to End 4 Losing Days for S&P 500" says stocks rose, snapping a 4 day losing streak for the S&P 500 stock index, as some retail stores reported sales that topped projections and Chinese equities rallied the most in 6 moths. Alcoa and Caterpilalr led the Dow Jones Industrial Average higher after a 4.8% advance in the Shanghai Composite Index. Amgen, the largest biotech company, and Merck slid more than 1% after Pres. Obama said he would take a more direct role in the legislative fight over health care.

AXP $32.46 +0.51 1.6% 9,814,117 NYSE: No mentions found.

Bank of America BAC $16.84 +0.57 3.5% 172,431,877 NYSE: WSJ pC1"Stocks Break Losing Run: Dow Up 63.94" says stocks snapped their four day losing streak even as many investors remained cautious ahead of Aug. jobs data due out Fri. morning. Alcoa led the gains, up 4%, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of Am both rose more than 3%.

Atlanta Business Chronicle p14A Lisa R. Schoolcraft in her Restaurants and Hospitality column says Bank of America's Stephanie Barrell, senior vp and marketing exec has joined The Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Fin Times p20 "Wall Street - Uncertainty persists in spite of postive data from retailers" says US stocks crept up yesterday to break a four day losing streak, as investors braced themselves ahead of today's job data and mentions BAC up 3.5% and JPM up 3.1%.

Boeing BA $48.46 +0.06 0.12% 5,426,860 NYSE: AJC pA18 "Boeing orders, deliveries decline in Aug" says BA's orders for its commercial jets fell 11% in Aug., as weaker demand for air travel forces airlines to scale back plans to buy new planes.

Fin Times p2 "WTO to rule Airbus aid illegal" as reported yesterday the World Trade Organization is expected to rule today that billions of dollars in European gov. subsidies for Airbus aircraft are illegal. While Boeing and Airbus dominate the long haul market, this virtual duopoly faces a growing challenge from aircraft makers in China and Russia, with manufacturers in Canada, Brazil, Japan and South Korea also aspiring to a greater market share.

NYT pB5 "Five-Year Dipute on Aricraft Claims Loses Its Urgency" says that after 5 years of bitter litigation between the US and Europe, the World Trade Organization is expected to deliver a report today intended to set limits on gov support for civil aircraft makers like Boeing and Airbus.

Caterpillar CAT $45.04 +1.53 3.52% 8,768,213 NYSE: WSJ pC5 "Large Stock Focus - Caterpillar, Costco Join The Charge" says ahead of a key gauge on the labor market Friday morning, some of the more indsutrial of copanies, including Caterpillar and GE, paced an uptick in stocks Thurs., while the gov backed banks staged another rally.

CVX $68.33 +0.29 0.43% 7,202,189 NYSE: No mentions found.

Cisco CSCO $21.49 -0.06 0.28% 33,734,624 NASDAQ-GS: Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "Cisco, EMC may form venture" says CSCO and data storage company EMC are in talks to create a new joint venture to provide tech services.

Coke KO $49.58 -0.22 0.44% 11,231,895 NYSE: WSJ pA13 "Revolutionary Ferment: Cooking Up Craft Beer That Travels" says Belgium's Sonia Colina, one of the world's leading beer chemists is trying to develop new techniques to prolong the shelf life of highly perishable craft brews. Shelf life is critical to shipping any processed food or drink, a lesson learned by everybody from Nestle' s and Coke to French cheese markers and Italian ham producers.

Atlanta Business Chronicle p3A "Treating families, not cancer" by Maria Saporta has a story about Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation based in Atlanta that provides families with a terminally ill parent a special gift of lasting memories and lists 2 Dow companies who support it: Coke & Disney. ABC p32A has a story by Douglas Sams "Artist captures Atlanta's most influential" that says when influential Atlantans want a portrait they go to Rossen Raytchev Raykov and says he has done portraits for Home Depot co-founder Arthur Balnk and retired Coke CEOs Neville Isdell and Roberto Goizueta.

Disney DIS $25.44 +0.04 0.16% 11,072,977 NYSE: WSJ pB8 "Disney Seeks Buzz With Toy Story Re-Release - Animated Classics Get 3D Upgrade As Studio Promotes third Installment" says among Dis' splashiest premieres this fall are 2 titles that hit theaters more than a decade ago, Toy Story and Toy Story 2.

Atlanta Business Chronicle p3A "Treating families, not cancer" by Maria Saporta has a story about Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation based in Atlanta tha provides families with a terminally ill parent a special gift of lasting memories and lists some 2 Dow companies who support it: Coke & Disney.

Fin Times p15 "Flurry of new deals changes the mood" says for the first time in 2 years, a flurry of media dealmaking is creating excitement for media acquisitions. This week, Disney agreed to buy Marvel for $4 bil and the article mentions News Corp's invitation to bid on Dow Jones Indexes as reported on Aug. 15. Story also mentions that people doubt there will be a sale of NBC Universal by GE & Vivendi.

DD $31.63 +0.57 1.84% 5,946,825 NYSE: No mentions found.

XOM $68.26 +0.08 0.12% 15,045,660 NYSE: No mentions found.

GE $13.45 +0.25 1.89% 54,285,435 NYSE: WSJ pC5 "Large Stock Focus - Caterpillar, Costco Join The Charge" says ahead of a key gauge on the labor market Friday morning, some of the more indsutrial of companies, including Caterpillar and GE, paced an uptick in stocks Thurs., while the gov backed banks staged another rally.

Fin Times p15 "Flurry of new deals changes the mood" says for the first time in 2 years, a flurry of media dealmaking is creating excitement for media acquisitions. This week, Disney agreed to buy Marvel for $4 bil and the article mentions News Corp's invitation to bid on Dow Jones Indexes as reported on Aug. 15. Story also mentions that people doubt there will be a sale of NBC Universal by GE & Vivendi.

Hewlett-Packard HPQ $44.45 +0.20 0.45% 11,161,187 NYSE: WSJ pB1 "Oracle-Sun Deal Draws Scrutiny, and Rivals Circle", Fin Times "Oracle deal for Sun hits hurdle in Brussels" also at IBD pA2, NYT B1 and USA Today B2 report that the European Commission opened an antitrust ivnestigation into Oracle Corp.'s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. dealing a blow to Oracle's efforts to keep Sun customers who are increasing being wooed by rival tech companies. In the past few months, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell have all launched efforts to poach Sun customers. Those customers have been in limbo since April when the deal was announced. Fin Times says it's going to be very damaging to Sun who is slowly hemorrhaging their business viability. The only winners are MSFT, IBM, and HPQ.

WSJ pA16 "The EU Plays Oracle - Even Obama is too soft for Europe's antitrust enforcers" comments on yesterday's European Competition Commission's announcement they were extending Brussels' review of the $7.4 billion Oracle-Sun merger. This comes two weeks after Obama's antitrust enforcer, Christine Varney, approved the deal uncodnitionally. Article says it is a shakedown by the ECC noting that MySQL, owned by Sun, is the largest open source database product and Oracle couldn't change that even if it wanted to because the code is out there and anyone from MSFT to you in your garage can take the code and use it.

Home Depot HD $26.9 +0.37 1.39% 9,677,184 NYSE: Atlanta Business Chronicle p32A has a story by Douglas Sams "Artist captures Atlanta's most influential" that says when influential Atlantans want a portrait they go to Rossen Raytchev Raykov and says he has done portraits for Home Depot co-foudner Arthur Blank and retired Coke CEOs Neville Isdell and Roberto Goizueta.

Atlanta Business Chronice pA1 "Grady to add to ER, trauma" by Urvaksh Karkaria says Grady Memorial Hospoital plans to invest nearly $2 mil to upgrade its emergency and trauma care which will be financed in party from a $20 mil gift from the Marcus Foundation. Benie Marcus was the co-foudner of Home Depot.

Intel INTC $19.42 -0.05 0.26% 47,353,688 NASDAQ-GS: Fin Times p12 "Intel sees Windows of opportunity- The group hopes for a recovery as the new operating system is released" says an ageing line up of PCs and the arrival of Windows 7 will causes companies to start spending again on computers next year according to INTC CEO, Paul Otellini.

Fin Times p8 "A fast and eas upgrade" examines Apple's new operating system favorably. Its name is Snow Leopard and says it can take advantage of the 64 bit processing capabilities of the latest Intel processors, including the ability to access more than 4Gb of Ram. Snow Leopard is being compared to Windows 7, the latest version of MSFT's PC operating system, which is due to ship next month. Windows 7 is a more substantial upgrade but relfects the deficiencies of Windows Vista but both systems borrow and build upon features already available in the other's operating system.

IBM $116.33 +0.24 0.21% 4,929,867 NYSE: WSJ pB1 "Oracle-Sun Deal Draws Scrutiny, and Rivals Circle", Fin Times "Oracle deal for Sun hits hurdle in Brussels" & Inv Bus. Daily at pA1, NYT B1 and USA Today 2B report that the European Commission opened an antitrust investigation into Oracle Corp.'s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. dealing a blow to Oracle's efforts to keep Sun customers who are increasingly being wooed by rival tech companies. In the past few months, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell have all launched efforts to poach Sun customers. Those customers have been in limbo since April when the deal was announced. Fin Times says it's going to be very damaging to Sun who is slowly hemorrhaging their business viability. The only winners are MSFT, IBM, and HPQ.

WSJ pA16 "The EU Plays Oracle - Even Obama is too soft for Europe's antitrust enforcers" comments on yesterday's European Competition Commission's announcement they were extendinging Brussels' review of the $7.4 billion Oracle-Sun merger. This comes two weeks after Obama's antitrust enforcer, Christine Varney, approved the deal uncodnitionally. Article says it is a shakedown by the ECC noting that MySQL, owned by Sun, is the largest open source database product and Oracle couldn't change that even if it wanted to because the code is out there and anyone from MSFT to you in your garage can take the code and use it.

JPMorgan Chase JPM $42.11 +1.25 3.06% 33,708,232 NYSE: WSJ pC1 "Stocks Break Losing Run: Dow Up 63.94" says stocks snapped their four day losing streak even as many investors remained cautious ahead of Aug. jobs data due out Fri. morning. Alcoa led the gains, up 4%, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of Am both rose more than 3%.

Fin Times p20 "Wall Street - Uncertainty persists in spite of postive data from retailers" says US stocks crept up yesterday to break a four day losing streak, as ivnestors braced themselves ahead of today's job data and mentions BAC up 3.5% and JPM up 3.1%.

Johnson & Johnson JNJ $59.69 -0.07 0.12% 8,602,523 NYSE: WSJ pB4 "Elan-J&J Deal Breaches Tysabri Pact, Judge Rules" saysa fed a judge has ruled that Elan PLC's recent deal with JNJ breaches its 9 year collaboration with Biogen Idec Inc. to sell multiple sclerosis reatment Tysabri. This means that Elan msut alter the JNJ agreement by Sept. 26 or run the risk of losing all rights to Tysabri, a drug that does $1 bil in annual rev. JNJ agreed to buy 18.4% of Elan in July and alos gives JNJ an option to finance Elan's purchase of Biogen's Tysabri state, if Biogen were to be acquired.

KFT $27.99 -0.02 0.07% 6,757,750 NYSE: No mentions found.

MCD $55.57 +0.20 0.36% 5,673,311 NYSE: No mentions found.

Merck MRK $30.24 -0.57 1.85% 16,542,113 NYSE: NYT pB7 "Stocks & Bonds - Financials Rise, Helping to End 4 Losing Days for S&P 500" says stocks rose, snapping a 4 day losing streak for the S&P 500 stock index, as some retail stores reported sales that topped projections and Chinese equities rallied the most in 6 moths. Amgen, the largest biotech company, and Merck slid more than 1% after Pres. Obama said he would take a more direct role in the legislative fight over health care.

Microsoft MSFT $24.11 +0.25 1.05% 34,017,741 NASDAQ-GS: WSJ pB1 "Oracle-Sun Deal Draws Scrutiny, and Rivals Circle", Fin Times "Oracle deal for Sun hits hurdle in Brussels", IBD pA1, NYT pB1 and USA Today 2B report that the European Commission opened an antitrust invnestigation into Oracle Corp.'s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. dealing a blow to Oracle's efforts to keep Sun customers who are increasing being wooed by rival tech companies. In the past few months, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell have all launched efforts to poach Sun customers. Those customers have been in limbo since April when the deal was announced. Fin Times says it's going to be very damaging to Sun who is slowly hemorrhaging their business viability. The only winners are MSFT, IBM, and HPQ.

WSJ pA16 "The EU Plays Oracle - Even Obama is too soft for Europe's antitrust enforcers" comments on yesterday's European Competition Commission's announcement they were extendinging Brussels' review of the $7.4 billion Oracle-Sun merger. This comes two weeks after Obama's antitrust enforcer, Christine Varney, approved the deal uncodnitionally. Article says it is a shakedown by the ECC noting that MySQL, owned by Sun, is the largest open soruce database product and Oracle couldn't change that even if it wanted to because the code is out there and anyone from MSFT to you in your garage can take the code and use it.

PFE $16.08 -0.20 1.23% 35,418,212 NYSE: No mentions found.

Procter & Gamble PG $52.87 +0.07 0.13% 9,117,737 NYSE: WSJ pC3 "Warner Chilcot Deal Could Reopen Leveraged Loan Market" says Warner Chilcott PLC's $4 bil loan to fun the purchase of PG's prescription drug business could be the wake up call the leveraged loan market has been waiting for.

MMM $71.02 +0.44 0.62% 3,192,784 NYSE: No mentions found.

TRV $49.92 +0.77 1.57% 3,562,858 NYSE: No mentions found.

UTX $59.65 +0.80 1.36% 4,731,371 NYSE: No mentions found.

Verizon VZ $30.24 +0.10 0.33% 10,703,298 NYSE: WSJ pB6 "Verizon President Strigl to Step Down From Post - naming of Replacement May Provide Clearer Picture of Possible Successor to CEO Seidenberg" says Dennis Strigl will step down as Pres. and COO by year end and leave open the No.2 position. His successor would be viewed as a possible successor to Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg, 62.

Wal-Mart WMT $51.74 +0.82 1.61% 16,280,043: AJC p18 notes that as reported yesterday WMT will start requiring all employees to be paid by direct deposit and AJC says their vendor to facilitate that will be First Data who will soon be headquartered in Atl. WSJ pA2 has a correction about yesterday's story reporting the above saying that the direct payment will not start by the end of this month.

WSJ pB5 "First Solar Names Gillette Chief Exec" says Robert J. Gillette, a top Honeywell Int'l exec will become CEO. First Solar makes thin film solar panels and members of the Walton family, heirs to the founder of WMT control 40.6% of First Solar.

Fin Times p20 "Wall Street - Uncertainty persists in spite of postive data from retailers" says US stocks crept up yesterday to break a four day losing streak, as investors braced themselves ahead of today's job data and mentions BAC up 3.5% and JPM up 3.1% and that although WMT no longer contributes months sales figures to same store sales index its shares cimbed 1.6% as it was expected to have been popular with frugal back to school shoppers.

NYT pB3 has a related story "Not Looking Good So Far For Back to School Sales" says after posting yet another month of weak sales, the nation's stores are hoping a late Sept. rush will save the back to school shopping sessions. Chart of nation's retailers says WMT unlike the others does not release monthly figures only quarterly figures.

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 replaces 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