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an update of the Dow 30's most recent SEC filings as of 10/13/09.

A read of Tuesday's 10/13/09 print editions of: Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Investors Business Daily, New York Times, & USA Today 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 Monday's closing price and related data:

Dow: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Monday at 9885.8 up 20.86 or .21% from Friday's close of 9864.94. Of the 30 Dow Companies: 8 declined, 21 gained and 1, Disney, was unchanged. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was IBM $127.04 +1.11 0.88% 7,687,739 NYSE and percentage-wise was Bank of Amercia BAC $18.03 +0.53 3.03% 138,697,785 NYSE and the biggest decliner dollar wise and percentage wise was Bank of America BAC $18.03 +0.53 3.03% 138,697,785 NYSE.

WSJ pC1 "Blue Chips Hit a HIgh For the Year, At 9885.80" by Peter A. McKay says stocks finished at another closing high for the year, even after pulling back from intraday peaks, as rising oil prices fueled gains in energy shares. Chevron and Exxon Mobil both rose more than 1.2%. Several big banks are scheduled to report earnings this week including J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, all three of which finished higher with BofA up 3%.

WSJ pC6 "Large Stock Focus - BofA Leads Banks . . ." by Geoffrey Rogow says stocks ended slightly higher Mon. as traders remianed optimistic about earnings seasona nd lifted Bofa and other financials, although a pullback in Sandisk and other tech firms kept gains mutuer. In the second lightest volume session of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 20.86 points, marking its third straight day higher and a new closing high for '09. aside from financials, the index's strongest sector was energy, as oil prices hit a 7 week high during the day and closed above $73 a barrel. Chevron rose 1.3% while XOM rose 1.2%.

NYT pB10 "Stocks & Bonds - Wall Street ends About Where It Started" by Jack Healy says stocks ended mostly unchanged on Mon. in trading that was subdued by the Columbus Day holiday and anticipation of quarterly earnings reports from several major banks. banks including JPM, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs will report results this week as will Intel and google. Dozens of businesses have used huge job cuts, deep reductions in investment and other austerity measures to wipe red ink from balance sheets. Bette earnings drove Wall Street's rally over the summer, and investors hope that businesses can demonstrate more progress.

USA Today p4B "Markets Monday - Stocks mixed as investors await earnings" by AP says investors waitng for earnings reports to flow in traded cautioulsy Mon, leaving the market narrowly mixed.

The current divisor for the Dow found at today's page C4 of The Wall St. Jrnl is .132319125 unchanged where it is also noted that as of open today the Dow's trailing P/E ratio is 16 up from yesterday's 15.97, its P/E estimate is 15.84 unchanged and its Dividend yield is 2.83 unchanged.

Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1308.08 up 2.76 from Friday's closing Dow numerator of 1305.21. 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 2.76 by the divisor you get 20.86, the increase in Monday's Dow close.

The highest closing price Monday again was IBM $127.04 +1.11 0.88% 7,687,739 NYSE and the lowest closing price Monday again was Alcoa AA $14.25 +0.01 0.07% 26,932,487 NYSE. The lowest volume Monday again was 3M MMM $74.88 +0.15 0.2% 2,377,243 NYSE and the highest volume again was Bank of Am BAC $18.03 +0.53 3.03% 138,697,785 NYSE. If Monday 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 $270. ($130,800 - $130,530)

AT&T T $25.6 -0.06 0.23% 25,983,320 NYSE: Inv. Bus. Daily pA5 "Content Firms Now Internet Traffic cops - And google Growing Fastest - New report finds many Tier 1 providers expanding to cloud, other offerings" by Brian Deagon says data flowing through Google properties now account for mroe than 6% of all Internet traffic, up from 1% just 2 years ago. Internet traffic and content is consolidating through the pipes of 150 companies and even more so to about 30 of these companies which accounts for about 30% of traffic. The top 150 companies, which include cable and telecom firms, Web hosting companies, content delivery networks and large Web properties like Google and Microsoft, account for 50% of traffic overall. 5 years ago, the bulk of Internet trrafic was managed by so called tier 1 providers such as AT&T, Verizon Communications, Level 3 Communications and Global Crossing which connect to thousands of tier 2 networks and regional providers. As competition rose, the prices companies paid to have their Internet traffic carried across these networks plummeted. At the same time, Internet companies begain building their own private networks and started connecting to each other directly. Also, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and other large Web properties have spent billions acquiring other content companies.

AA $14.25 +0.01 0.07% 26,932,487 NYSE: No mentions found.

AXP $35.08 +0.14 0.4% 6,410,557 NYSE: No mentions found.

Bank of America BAC $18.03 +0.53 3.03% 138,697,785 NYSE: WSJ pC1 "BofA to Release Details of Merrill Advice" by David Enrich, Liz Rappaport, Dan Fitzpatrick ays BofA agreed to hand over documents that detail the legal advice it received during its purchase of Merrill Lynch, a reversal after months of resisting such a move. It is intended to pave the way to a settlement of various investigations such as the one being done by NY AG Andrew Cuomo. The law firms include Wachtell, Kipton Rosen & Katz which represented Bofa and Merrill's counsel which was Shearman and Sterling.

Similar story at NYT pB1 by Louise Story, Eric Dash.

NYT pB1 "Pace Slows on Losses for Banks" by Eric Dash says bank probelms appear to be easing as they prepare to disclose 3Q results. JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are exceptions to banks with big consumer loan portfolios like Citigroup and BofA, which each accepted $45 bil of taxper money and are likely to have a strong third quarter altho not enough to offset the enormous losses in their credit card and consumer lending businesses.

NYT pA1 "Advertising - Spots Take On A Rosier Hue" by Stephanie Clifford says the nation's biggest advertisers are saing that the ecooonomy is back in their new campaigns. GE's and BofA's campaigns are discussed.

WSJ pC1 "Blue Chips Hit a HIgh For the Year, At 9885.80" by Peter A. McKay says stocks finished at another closing high for the year, even after pulling back from intraday peaks, as rising oil prices fueled gains in energy shares. Chevron and Exxon Mobil both rose more than 1.2%. Several big banks are scheduled to report earnings this week including J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, all three of which finished higher with BofA up 3%.

WSJ pC6 "Large Stock Focus - BofA Leads Banks . . ." by Geoffrey Rogow says stocks ended slightly higher Mon. as traders remianed optimistic about earnings seasona nd lifted Bofa and other financials, although a pullback in Sandisk and other tech firms kept gains mutuer. In the second lightest volume session of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 20.86 points, marking its third straight day higher and a new closing high for '09. aside from financials, the index's strongest sector was energy, as oil prices hit a 7 week high during the day and closed above $73 a barrel. Chevron rose 1.3% while XOM rose 1.2%.

Boeing BA $51.66 -1.03 1.95% 3,941,252 NYSE: USA Today p1B "Cover story - China gives big plane plan a go - Project to build 190 seat jets targets maiden flight for 2014" by calum Macleod says China is pallning the C919, a single aisle jetliner designed to seat 190 that would compete against Boeing and Airbus, who don't appear worried by the competition.

CAT $53.05 -0.59 1.1% 6,647,297 NYSE: No mentions found.

Chevron CVX $73.67 +0.91 1.25% 6,617,976 NYSE: WSJ pC1 "Blue Chips Hit a HIgh For the Year, At 9885.80" by Peter A. McKay says stocks finished at another closing high for the year, even after pulling back from intraday peaks, as rising oil prices fueled gains in energy shares. Chevron and Exxon Mobil both rose more than 1.2%. Several big banks are scheduled to report earnings this week including J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, all three of which finished higher with BofA up 3%

Cisco CSCO $23.784 -0.246 1.02% 32,703,009 NASDAQ-GS: WSJ pA1 Lead Story "Business Fends Off Tax Hit - Obma Admin. Shelves Plan to Change How US Treats Overseas Profits" by Neil King Jr., Elizabeth Williamson says the Obama admin has shelved a plan to raise more than $200 bil in new taxes on multinational companies following a blitz of complaints from businesses. Several Dow components CEOs met with Obama officials to lobby against the bill. Pictured are IBM CEO Sam Palmisano looking as if he is being interrogated and next to him is Intel's CEO Paul Otellini looking a bit off guard. Cisco's CEO John Chambers is also mentioned as having met with officials.

Coke KO $54.79 +0.14 0.26% 7,969,985 NYSE: Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "India, Cina gains to boost Coke" says the no. 1 soft drink maker will benefit from improving trends in the US, India and other areas, and less drag from unfavorable exchange rates, UBS said which sees KO experiencing a 20% rise in volumes in India, a 5% gain in Latin America and a 10% increase in China.

Disney DIS $28.64 unch unch 6,927,350 NYSE: NYT pA1 "disney's Retail Plan Is a Theme Park in Its Stores" by Brooks Barnes says Dis, with the help of Steven P. Jobs and his retailing team at Apple, itnends to drastically overhaul its approach to the shopping mall by getting more aggressive and putting into motion an expensive and ambitious floor to ceiling reboot of its 340 stores in the US and Europe, as well as opening new oens, including a flagship in Times Square. disney Stores, which the media giant is considering rebranding Imaginatin Park, will become more akin to cozy entertainment hubs.

WSJ pD7 "Museum - Inside Walt disney's World" by Ann Landi features the new Walt disney family Museum housed in a former army barracks in the Presidio in San Franchsco. Disney, born in Chicago, moved as a small boy to Missouri where in Kansas City he worked on a train, delivered newspapers and developed an early passion for movies and vaudeville performances. When the family moved to Chicago in 1917, Walt drew is first cartoons for the high school magazine and so on.

DD $33.06 +0.11 0.33% 3,980,827 NYSE: No mentions found.

Exxon XOM $70.13 +0.86 1.24% 16,139,099 NYSE: WSJ pB1 "Oil Bids By Exxon, China Split Ghanaians" by Russell Gold, Will Connors says the Ghanaian gov. is divided over whether to cut a deal with a leading Chinese oil company or with Exxon Mobil to develop a giant offshore oil field. There is agreement that they want to get rid of Kosmos Energy, the tiny Dallas based explorer that found the oil field in 2007 which has been trying to sell its 23.5% stake in the Jubilee field off th coast of Ghana, a substantial discovery that holds 1.8 bil barrels of oil for about $4 bil.

WSJ pC1 "Blue Chips Hit a HIgh For the Year, At 9885.80" by Peter A. McKay says stocks finished at another closing high for the year, even after pulling back from intraday peaks, as rising oil prices fueled gains in energy shares. Chevron and Exxon Mobil both rose more than 1.2%. Several big banks are scheduled to report earnings this week including J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, all three of which finished higher with BofA up 3%

GE $16.33 +0.15 0.93% 58,103,768 NYSE: WSJ pC1 "In NBC Deal, Learn From Game Theory" by Dennis K. Berman says the Comcast-NBC Universal (owned by GE) deal is gong to happen at a lower price than expected is the prediction of Dr. Bueno de Mesquita who uses a mathematical model which has gotten some notice because of his claim to predict the future using it.

NYT pA1 "Advertising - Spots Take On A Rosier Hue" by Stephanie Clifford says the nation's biggest advertisers are saing that the ecooonomy is back in their new campaigns. GE's and BofA's campaigns are discussed.

Hewlett-Packard HPQ $47.04 -0.34 0.72% 8,471,833 NYSE: WSJ pB4 "Bearing Point to Sell China Unit to Perot" by Loretta Chao says Perot Systems which has agreed tobe acquired by Dell said it purchased the China operations of management consulting firm BearingPoint Inc. Dell last month agreed to buy Perot for $3.9 bil and sees tech services generating $8 bil a year in revenue. The moves whould help Dell catch up to rivals such as Hewlett-Packard which last year bought information technology services giant Electronic Data Systems Inc.

HD $27.04 +0.08 0.3% 10,946,472 NYSE: No mentions found.

Intel INTC $20.4 +0.23 1.14% 64,804,941 NASDAQ-GS: /WSJ pC1 "Ahead of the Tape - Intel's Star Likely to Keep Some Twinkle" by Mark Gongloff says Intel has helped power the market's rally and is expected to report 3Q results after the closing bell on Tues. analysts estimate the bigggest US semiconductor maker by market value earned 27 cents a share, down 23%from last year's quarter but an improvement over the second quarter when it earned 18 cents. Intel managed to raise profits in 2Q by squeezing costs, even as revenue fell 15% a year earlier

WSJ pA1 Lead Story "Business Fends Off Tax Hit - Obma Admin. Shelves Plan to Change How US Treats Overseas Profits" by Neil King Jr., Elizabeth Williamson says the Obama admin has shelved a plan to raise more than $200 bil in new taxes on multinational companies following a blitz of complaints from businesses. Several Dow components CEOs met with Obama officials to lobby against the bill. Pictured are IBM CEO Sam Palmisano looking as if he is being interrogated and next to him is Intel's CEO Paul Otellini looking a bit off guard. Cisco's CEO John Chambers is also mentioned as having met with officials.

IBM $127.04 +1.11 0.88% 7,687,739 NYSE: WSJ pA1 Lead Story "Business Fends Off Tax Hit - Obma Admin. Shelves Plan to Change How US Treats Overseas Profits" by Neil King Jr., Elizabeth Williamson says the Obama admin has shelved a plan to raise more than $200 bil in new taxes on multinational companies following a blitz of complaints from businesses. Several Dow components CEOs met with Obama officials to lobby against the bill. Pictured are IBM CEO Sam Palmisano looking as if he is being interrogated and next to him is Intel's CEO Paul Otellini looking a bit off guard. Cisco's CEO John Chambers is also mentioned as having met with officials.

JPMorgan Chase JPM $46.08 +0.23 0.5% 24,090,367 NYSE: WSJ pC3 "J.P. Morgan Taps Simon To Co-Lead Tech Team" by Jeffrey McCracken says as bankers ramp up for an anticipated flurry of tech deals and consolidation, JP Morgan Chase is promoting the loongtime head of its telecommunications investment banking group to jointly run its tech, media and telecom team. Kurt Simon,head of JPM's telecom group for 5 years, will move to San Fran from NY this month to help expand JPM's tech business on the West Coast.

WSJ pC1 "Blue Chips Hit a HIgh For the Year, At 9885.80" by Peter A. McKay says stocks finished at another closing high for the year, even after pulling back from intraday peaks, as rising oil prices fueled gains in energy shares. Chevron and Exxon Mobil both rose more than 1.2%. Several big banks are scheduled to report earnings this week including J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, all three of which finished higher with BofA up 3%.

WSJ pC10 "Heard on the Street" says JPM ramped up its holdings of mortgage backed securities

Johnson & Johnson JNJ $62.53 +0.79 1.28% 12,518,785 NYSE: WSJ pD5 "In The Lab" by Shirley S. Want says 50 mil Americans suffer from allergies but it isn't understood why certain agents spark an immune response in some and not others. With immunotherapy, people are injected with larger doses of a cocktail of substances they are allegeric to in order to desensitize their bodies. This contrasts with medications such as Johnson & Johnson's Zyrtec which are designed to relieve symptoms but don't change people's reaxtivity to allergens.

KFT $26.19 +0.22 0.85% 6,022,080 NYSE: No mentions found.

MCD $56.68 -0.02 0.04% 8,501,527 NYSE: No mentions found.

MRK $32.86 +0.30 0.92% 10,460,392 NYSE: No mentions found.

Microsoft MSFT $25.72 +0.17 0.67% 29,108,146 NASDAQ-GS: WSJ pB4 "T-Mobile Halts Sale of Sidekick" by Roger Cheng, Nick Wingfield says T-Mobile USA temporarily suspended selling its Sidekick messaging-centric cellphone, following an embarrassing loss of customer data. The move is a blow to the Sidekick line and T-Mobile's relationship with Microsoft which owns the company that designs Sidekick's software and service.

Similar story at NYT pB3 by Saul Hansell, USA Today p1B & Inv. Bus. Daily at pA2.

USA Today p1B "PC prices shold stay low with Windows 7 - Average computer price is $761, compared with $1,364 in '03" by Byron Acohido says with MSFT's new Windows 7 operating system due 10/22, PC prices have never been lower.

Inv. Bus. Daily pA5 "Content Firms Now Internet Traffic cops - And google Growing Fastest - New report finds many Tier 1 providers expanding to cloud, other offerings" by Brian Deagon says data flowing through Google properties now account for mroe than 6% of all Internet traffic, up from 1% just 2 years ago. Internet traffic and content is consolidating through the pipes of 150 companies and even more so to about 30 of these companies which accounts for about 30% of traffic. The top 150 companies, which include cable and telecom firms, Web hosting companies, content delivery networks and large Web properties like Google and Microsoft, account for 50% of traffic overall. 5 years ago, the bulk of Internet trrafic was managed by so called tier 1 providers such as AT&T, Verizon Communications, Level 3 Communications and Global Crossing which connect to thousands of tier 2 networks and regional providers. As copetition rose, the prices companies paid to have their Internet traffic carried across these networks plummeted. At the same time, Internet companies begain building their own private networks and started connecting to each other directly. Also, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and other large Web properties have spent billions acquiring other content companies.

NYT pB2 "Low Expectations And Windows 7" says most people skipped MSFT's last big operating launch and its shares have spent a decade in purgatory but has gained market share with its new search engine, Bing; got the better of its partnership with Yahoo; and seems close to settling its European Union antitrust problems. Now its about to roll out its new oeprating system, Windows & which appers better than Vista, even if its advertising is clunky. There aremore than 1.2 billion PCs worldwide and one fifth use Vista. For every 2% of those that upgrade to Windows 7 without buying new machines, Microsoft would reap about $500 mil in additional rev.

PFE $17.1 +0.18 1.06% 57,863,513 NYSE: No mentions found.

PG $57.5 -0.06 0.1% 7,888,098 NYSE: No mentions found.

MMM $74.88 +0.15 0.2% 2,377,243 NYSE: No mentions found.

TRV $48.83 +0.02 0.04% 3,347,519 NYSE: No mentions found.

UTX $61.47 -0.70 1.13% 3,583,972 NYSE: No mentions found.

Verizon VZ $29 -0.16 0.55% 16,400,506 NYSE: Inv. Bus. Daily pA5 "Content Firms Now Internet Traffic cops - And google Growing Fastest - New report finds many Tier 1 providers expanding to cloud, other offerings" by Brian Deagon says data flowing through Google properties now account for mroe than 6% of all Internet traffic, up from 1% just 2 years ago. Internet traffic and content is consolidating through the pipes of 150 companies and even more so to about 30 of these companies which accounts for about 30% of traffic. The top 150 companies, which include cable and telecom firms, Web hosting companies, content delivery networks and large Web properties like Google and Microsoft, account for 50% of traffic overall. 5 years ago, the bulk of Internet trrafic was managed by so called tier 1 providers such as AT&T, Verizon Communications, Level 3 Communications and Global Crossing which connect to thousands of tier 2 networks and regional providers. As copetition rose, the prices companies paid to have their Internet traffic carried across these networks plummeted. At the same time, Internet companies begain building their own private networks and started connecting to each other directly. Also, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and other large Web properties have spent billions acquiring other content companies.

WMT $49.61 -0.36 0.72% 16,306,131 NYSE: No mentions found.

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Here are the CEOs of the Dow 30 Companies:

T Randall L. Stephenson
AA Klaus Kleinfeld
AXP Kenneth I. Chenault
BAC Kenneth D. Lewis (on 10/1 he announced his resignation as of year-end).
BA W. James McNerney, Jr.
CAT James W. Owens
CVX David O'Reilly who will be replaced by John Watson at year end.
CSCO John Chambers
KO Muhtar Kent
DIS Robert Iger
DD Ellen Kullman
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

Here are the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 ranked in order of market capitalization rounded to the nearest billion as of 10/12/09:

1. Exxon Mobil XOM $337
2. Microsoft MSFT 229
3. WalMart WMT 191
4. JPMorgan Chase 181
5. GE 174
6. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 172
7. Procter & Gamble PG 168
8. IBM 167
9. Bank of Am BAC 156
10. At&t T 151
11. Chevron CVX 148
12. Cisco CSCO 137
13. Coke KO 127
14. Pfizer PFE 115
15. Intel INTC 114
16. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 112
17. Verizon VZ 82
18. Merck MRK 69
19. McDonald's MCD 62
20. United Technologies UTX 58
21. Disney DIS 53
22. 3M MMM 52
23. Home Depot 46
24. American Express AXP 42
25. Kraft KFT 39
26. Boeing BA 38
27. Caterpillar CAT 33
28. DuPont DD 30
29. Traveler's TRV 28
30. Alcoa AA 14

Here are the latest SEC filings as of 10/12/09 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: 10/2/09 11K Annual Report of employee stock purchase plan.

8/28/09 two 8K's, one announcing 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 AT&T redeemed certain long-term debt issues as of September 28, 2009.

Alcoa AA: 10/8/09 announcing financial results for the third quarter.

7/29/09 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: 10/2/09 8K announcing departure of Alfred F. Kelly, Jr., as Pesident and head of AXP Global Consumer Group as of 4/10/09.

9/15/09 8K annoucing delinquency and write-off statistics for the lending portfolio of its U.S. Card Services operating segment for the months ended June 30, July 31 and August 31, 2009.

9/2/09 10Q;

Bank of Am BAC: 10/9/09 several free writing prospectus regarding issuance of securities.

Boeing BA: 10/9/09 8K announcing the election to the Board and Audit & Fin. Committee of retired Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr. former Vice-Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff '05- '07.

10/6/09 8K announcing a charge to third quarter earnings in connection with delays in the 747-8 program.

9/15/09 8K announcing that pursuant to a 1978 SEC settlement, BA informed the SEC of a change in its policy re the appointment of foreign consultants and to whom they report.

8/31/09 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.

8/27/09 8K announcing a revised schedule for the 787 Dreamliner and a charge to third quarter earnings related to flight test aircraft.

Caterpiller CAT: 10/5/09 8K announcing price changes on most machines worldwide effective Jan. '10.

9/23/09 8K announcing a new credit agreement with The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., that provides for an unsecured aggregate revolving credit facility up to $2.38 billion that serves as an alternative source of funds, if necessary, for CAT's commercial paper programs.

9/21/09 8K furnishing supplemental information concerning deliveries to users for its Machinery and Engines lines of business. Caterpillar sells the majority of its machinery and engines to independently owned and operated dealers and Original Equipment Manufacturers to meet the demands of their customers, the end users. Retail Sales of Machines by marketing region for the 3-month rolling period compared with the same months of the prior year were down significantlly.

9/15/09 8K announcing CAT and Navistar International Corporation (NYSE: NAV)formed a joint venture transaction resulting in a new company, NC2 Global LLC, to serve the global commercial truck market to be based in Chicago.

Chevron CVX: 10/8/09 8K announcing third quarter interim financial results.

9/30/09 8K announcing the retirement of CEO David J. OReilly who is being replaced by John S. Watson and the election to the Board as Vice-Chairman of George L. Kirkland.

8/6/09 10Q

Cisco CSCO: 10/5/09 8K announcing its offer to buy the Norwegian fimr Tandberg ASA for $3 bil.

9/23/09 Proxy Statement in connection with its Annual Meeting to be held 11/12/09.

9/11/09 10K.

9/9/09 8K Cisco appointed Arun Sarin, former CEO of Vodafone Group Plc, to its Board of Directors.

9/4/09 8K annoucing bonus payments for '09 fiscal year to: John T. Chambers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, $2,031,000; Frank A. Calderoni, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, $900,000; Willaim Elfrink, Executive Vice President, Cisco Services and Chief Globalization Officer, $1,000,000; Randy Pond, Executive Vice President, Operations, Processes and Systems, $900,000; and Richard J. Justice, former Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations and Business Development and current Executive Vice President – Executive Advisor, $750,000.

Coke KO: 7/30/09 10Q

Disney DIS: 9/22/09 Form S-4 Proxy and 9/16/09 Prospectus related to the takeover of Marvel.

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: 10/7/09 8K regulation FD disclosure regarding comments made by Executive Vice President Mark Vergnano who said DuPont would return to its level of '08 profitability in 2 and a half years.

9/29/09 and 8/13/09 8Ks announcing Nicholas C. Fanandakis, age 53, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer 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: 9/24/09 8K saying at its Securities Analyst Meeting, HPQ addressed how it is uniquely positioned to grow and expand in the global information technology market. “We expect the IT industry to return to growth in 2010 and believe that HP will outpace the market,” said Mark Hurd, CEO.

9/17/09 8K announcing the election of Marc L. Andreessen as a dierctor and chair of the Technology Committee of the Board. Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm, and a co-founder and chairman of Ning, Inc., an online platform for people to create their own social networks. Andreessen co-founded Opsware Inc. & served as chief technology officer of America Online, Inc. and was a co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. Andreessen gets an retainer of $100,000, an annual equity retainer of $150,000, and $2,000 in cash for each Board meeting attended in excess of six per year. Mr. Andreessen also will be eligible to participate in the product matching portion of the HP Employee Giving Program under which each non-employee director may contribute up to $100,000 worth of HP products each year to a qualified charity by paying 25% of the list price of those products, with HP paying the remaining 75%. In addition, Mr. Andreessen will receive an annual retainer of $10,000 for service as the chair of the Technology Committee. HPQ also increased the number of HPQ directors from ten to eleven.

9/8/09 10-QA

Home Depot HD: 9/3/09 10-Q

8/26/09 8K announcing amendments to their By-Laws dealing with resignations of directors.

Intel INTC: 10/8/09 amended the 9/21/09 tender offer regarding exchange of some of its stock options with its employees.

9/15/09 8K Intel announcing Intel's consolidation of all of its major product divisions into the newly formed Intel Architecture Group, which will be co-managed by Sean Maloney and David (Dadi) Perlmutter, executive vice presidents. Maloney will be responsible for business and operations while Perlmutter will lead product development and architecture. Paul Otellini, CEO, will devote more time to corporate strategy and driving the company’s growth initiatives. Intel’s global manufacturing organization, the Technology and Manufacturing Group will now report to Andy Bryant, Intel’s chief administrative officer. Pat Gelsinger and Bruce Sewell, General Counsel, will leave INTC.

IBM: 9/8/09 8K announcing that IBM representatives will be meeting with a number of institutional investors through mid-September.

7/28/09 10Q

JPMorganChase JPM: 10/9/09 Various free writing prospectus re: issuance of securities.

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

Kraft KFT: 10/6/09 8K announcing the promotion of Kim H. Jones, 49, to VP & Corp. Controller.

9/9/09 prospectus relating to Kraft's bid to take over Cadbury that was announced on 9/7/09.

9/9/09 8K announcing a strategic update, including a review of the company’s successful three-year turnaround plan.

8/5/09 10Q

McDonalds MCD: 9/25/09 8K announcing a quarterly cash dividend of .55 cents per share payable 12/15/09.

9/9/09 8K announcing that global comparable sales rose 2.2% in August and by segment performance was as follows: U.S. up 1.7%; Europe up 3.5%; andAsia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa declined 0.5%.

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

Merck MRK: 9/21/09 8K announcing that the acquisition by Sanofi-aventis of Merck’s 50percent interest in Merial Limited (Merial) has been completed. Sanofi-aventis acquired Merck’s interest in Merial for a cash consideration of $4 billion. Formed in 1997, Merial is a leading animal health company that was a 50/50 joint venture between Merck and sanofi-aventis and is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of sanofi-aventis.

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

Microsoft MSFT: 10/6/09 Proxy Statement regarding the Shareholders Annual Meeting to be held in Bellevue, Washington on 11/19/09.

9/11/09 8K James Cash to retire from Board of Directors. The
Harvard Business School professor and senior associate dean emeritus had served on the board since 2001. With Cash’s departure, the Microsoft board will have nine members: Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft; Steve Ballmer; Dina Dublon, former chief financial officer of JPMorgan Chase; Raymond V. Gilmartin, former chairman, president and chief executive officer of Merck & Co. Inc.; Reed Hastings, founder, chairman and CEO of Netflix Inc.; Maria M. Klawe, president, Harvey Mudd College; David F. Marquardt, general partner at August Capital; Charles H. Noski, former vice chairman of AT&T Corp.; and Dr. Helmut Panke, former chairman of the board of management at BMW AG.

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

Pfizer PFE: 9/24/09 8K announcing the expansion of the Board to 14 members pursuant to the agreement to merge with Wyeth and electing two Wyeth directors to the newly expanded Board: Frances D. Fergusson and John P. Mascotte.

9/24/09 11-K Annual Report of Employee Stock Option Plan.

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: 11K Annual Report of Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

9/10/09 8K confirmed its fiscal year 2010 and July – September quarter outlook for organic sales growth. The company also stated it expects to return to organic sales growth in the October – December quarter compared to prior year levels, following two quarters of organic sales declines. P&G also updated earnings per share guidance to include the anticipated impacts from the Pharmaceutical divestiture, which was announced on August 24, 2009. For fiscal year 2010, P&G confirmed previous guidance for organic sales growth of one to three percent. P&G expects net sales in the range of flat to up three percent versus prior year levels, which includes a foreign exchange impact of zero to minus one percent. P&G now expects fiscal 2010 earnings per share in the range of $3.99 to $4.12 per share. This includes a one-time net increase in earnings of $0.44 per share from the sale of the Pharmaceutical business, which will be partially offset by $0.10 to $0.12 per share of earnings dilution related to the transaction.

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: 8K 9/11/09 8K announcing VZ's cash flow and balance sheet are strong, and VZ recently increased its dividend for the third consecutive year. VZ is not planning for any economic improvements in the second half of 2009. Verizon expects that economic conditions will continue to pressure revenues and margins in the second half of 2009, particularly in its Wireline segment. VZ expects to add one million wireless customers per quarter for the next several quarters.
The company expects to achieve its stated Alltel cost synergy targets & greater cash flow from operations in the second half of 2009 compared to the first half of 2009.

9/4/09 8K 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.

9/4/09 8K annoucning retirement of Dennis F. Strigl, President and Chief Operating Officer of Verizon Communications Inc.

Wal-Mart WMT: 8K 9/18 Pricing agreement re: the 9/16 filed prospectus relating to $1 bil of Euro Note Offering at 4.875%

9/14/09 Prospectus re debt securities of $364,600,000

9/9/09 10Q

8/13/09 8K re 7/31/09 2Q report of earnings