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A read of Sunday's 10/4/09 print editions of: New York Times, Atl Journal Const., 10/5 issue of Barron's, 10/19 issue of Frobes,10/12 issue of Business Week, 10/2 -10/8 issue of the 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 Friday's closing price and related data:

Dow: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 9505.43 down 3.85 from Thursday's close of 9509.28. The Dow was down for the week 159.76 or 1.66%. Of the 30 Dow Companies: 11 gained and 19 declined. The biggest loser dollar-wise was Boeing BA $51.36 -0.75 1.44% 5,675,568 NYSE and percentage-wise was GE $15.3683 -0.6017 3.77% 118,917,778 NYSE. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was IBM $118.89 +0.99 0.84% 6,901,571 NYSE and percentage-wise was Merck MRK $31.6401 +0.4601 1.48% 18,233,816 NYSE.

BRN's pM47 has a table "per Share Values of Stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average" with the highest being Traveler's at 43.37 and the lowest being Boeing and the only negative book value at -1.78.

AT&T T $26.49 -0.12 0.45% 22,761,884 NYSE: Forbes p46 says Dish Networks is buy says its shares are down partially as a result from a divorce from its distributin partner AT&t and a lengthy legal battle with TiVo.

Alcoa AA $12.82 -0.10 0.77% 33,512,197 NYSE: BRN's p13 says on Wed, 10/7/09 Alcoa unofficially kicks off the third quarter reporting season.
AXP $32.51 +0.05 0.15% 11,462,176 NYSE

Bank of America BAC $16.265 +0.055 0.34% 214,319,182 NYSE: BRN's p16 "BofA Search Obscures Stock's Potential" by Biernan Ray, Jacqueline Doherty says despite all the concern about who will succeed departing CEO Ken Lewis, BofA is emerging fromt he past year's financial crisis in strikingly sold shape. The article says the stock could climb to as high as 30 over the next 2 years. There is a chart of BofA's sotck from '08 when the stock was near 50.

BRN's p32 "Krawcheck Stakes Her New Claim - Bank of America's new global wealth chief says the apocalyptic feeling is over for investors. How high will her own stock rise?" by lawrence c. Strauss says Sallie Krawcheck, 44 years old, who until last year was a top Citigroup exec., is being mentioned as one of several internal candidates to succeed Kenneth Lewis. The story profiles her.

BW p62 in a story by Lauren Young says banks are folling Mint.com and launching their own personal finance tools: JPM's Blueprint services lets credit card customers design a free plan to manage spending and Bank of America's My Portfolio, aggregates accounts data from dozens of sources.

BRN's p20 "Emerging Baking Power - Standard Chartered avoided most of the traps that snared rival lenders during the past year, The stock is up, but could run higher still" by Leslie P. Norton says this British lender, Standard Chartered, isn't a typical big bank and posted record profits in '08 and the first half of '09 despite a dismal economy. Its customers include Walmart, Caterpillar, and McDonald's and is one of a small group of banks that include HSBC, JPM, and BNP Paribas that have the wherewithal to compete in overseas markets. its shares trade at twice book value and 11.4 times earnings compared to BAC's that trades at 0.7 times book and a whopping 95 times earnings.

BRN's pM12 charts BAC saying the CEO Ken Lewis' unexpected retirement notice left the troubled bank's board scrambling to find a successor as quickly as possible.

BRN's p12 mentions BAC's CEO Ken Lewis resigning during the week and that earlier in the week Ohio's atty gen'l sued BofA and Lewis on behalf of 5 pension funds over the bank's not revealing losses involved in the takeover of Merrill as does Business Week at p5.

Atl Bus. Chron reports that a 161 unit cono project at Piedmont and Auburn avenues is in foreclosures and the 4 members lending consortium who are creditors include BAC and JPMorgan Chase.

Boeing BA $51.36 -0.75 1.44% 5,675,568 NYSE: BRN's pM47 has a table "per Share Values of Stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average" with the highest being Traveler's at 43.37 and the lowest being Boeing and the only negative book value at -1.78.

Caterpillar CAT $48.81 -0.64 1.29% 10,202,674 NYSE: BRN's p20 "Emerging Baking Power - Standard Chartered avoided most of the traps that snared rival lenders during the past year, The stock is up, but could run higher still" by Leslie P. Norton says this British lender, Standard Chartered, isn't a typical big bank and posted record profits in '08 and the first half of '09 despite a dismal economy. Its customers include Walmart, Caterpillar, and McDonald's and is one of a small group of banks that include HSBC, JPM, and BNP Paribas that have the wherewithal to compete in overseas markets. its shares trade at twice book value and 11.4 times earnings compared to BAC's that trades at 0.7 times book and a whopping 95 times earnings.

CVX $68.082 -0.728 1.06% 8,126,330 NYSE: No mentions found.

Cisco CSCO $22.67 -0.42 1.82% 41,235,127 NASDAQ-GS: BRN's p28 "NetApp Has Its Price" by Mark Veverka discusses Netapp, the data storage outfit, that may be for sale. NetApp closed Fri. at 25.89 mroe than double its Nov. low of 10.39 and its shares are trading at 24 times expected earnings. Cisco may be a suitor but it seems too invested in its relationship with Netapp;s competitor EMC, which also specializes in data storage equipment. IBM benefits enough from its selling relationship with NetApp without needing to own the company which leaves Hewlett-packard as a possible suitor because it could beef up its storage hardware products portfolio. But HPQ CEO Mark Hurd isn't one to overpay, especially if NetApp is no longer growing.

Forbes p75 says Cisco's former CEO, John Morgridge is worth $1.55 bil.

Coke KO $53.86 +0.74 1.39% 11,488,306 NYSE: BRN's pM5 "Coke's Still Got That Fizz" by Fleming Meeks says that stock market was in a free fall when Meeks recommended the shares of KO on March 10, but Meeks thought the world's biggest soft drink maker would emerge from the global economic crisis in better shape than when it went into it. Coke gets about 80% of its operating income outside North America, and a strengthening dollar was squeezing earnings gowth. Coke's shares ahve risen 39% since Meeks' march Alert but the rush into more speculative names has left the stock in the dust. Meeks is still bullish on Coke, which he says could rise to the low 60s in a year. The stock yields 3%.

Walt Disney DIS $27.2 -0.16 0.58% 12,889,159 NYSE: BRN's cover Story p22 "Boomer Consumer - As the boomers age, advertisers will have to rethink their overwhelming focus on youth, or miss a huge opportunity" by Gene Epstien says the baby boomers, who currently range in age from 45 to 63, are in the prime of power and number 77 million but they are being ignored by advertisers and marketers who are focusing on the 18 to 49 year olds. By 2015, when all the boomers will be over 50, folks aged 50 to 75 will account for 40% of adult consumers, up from 36.8% now. Bottom line, he says, is that older consumers will keep trudging off to WalMart, Bed Bath & Beyond, Tartet and Ikea for years. Along with pharmaceuticals and other health-related goods and services, beauty products should do well. Procter & Gamble's Olay, and Johnson & Johnson's Neutrogena have all launched products targeted to boomer women. Airlines and travel and entertainment companies such as cruise oeprator Carnival or Walt Disney already benefit from the over 50's and should gain more.

BRN's p27 "A Comcast/NBC Combo Merits Little Applause" by Eric J. Savitz says Comcast CEO Brian Roberts does things his own way and talks about his failed bid in '04 to take over Disney for $66 bil. The attempt to buy Disney, which investors hated, permanently changed the way Comcast is viewed on he Street and its shares subsequently have sold at a steep discount to other media and cable concerns, owing to the fear that Roberts could attempt another impulsive deal to buy another content giant. Now, those fears may be realized with the reports that Comcast is in talks with GE about buying NBC Universal. Comcast's shares fell because shareholders want management to keep growing the core operations, use the cash generated to buy back stock, pay down debt and pay out dividends.

DD $30.54 -0.06 0.2% 6,241,854 NYSE: No mentions found.

GE $15.3683 -0.6017 3.77% 118,917,778 NYSE: BRN's p27 "A Comcast/NBC Combo Merits Little Applause" by Eric J. Savitz says Comcast CEO Brian Roberts does things his own way and talks about his failed bid in '04 to take over Disney for $66 bil. The attempt to buy Disney, which investors hated, permanently changed the way Comcast is viewed on he Street and its shares subsequently have sold at a steep discount to other media and cable concerns, owing to the fear that Roberts could attempt another impulsive deal to buy another content giant. Now, those fears may be realized with the reports that Comcast is in talks with GE about buying NBC Universal. Comcast's shares fell because shareholders want management to keep gorwing the core operations, use the cash generated to buy back stock, pay down debt and pay out dividends.

BRN's pM8 "Seasonal Unease" by Steven M. Sears says warning of slow economic growth might be a subtle way for corporations to preannounce disappointing third quarter earnings, or to soften stock declines of the companies offer less than rosy earnings outlooks for the much anticipated fourth quarter. With stocks so far above March lows, corporations must convince investors that their price to earnings multiples are justified. When GE and WalMart warned of lethargic economic growth during the previous week, their shares did not suffer,. Bot stocks are still "toppy" and stalled.

BRN's p12 mentions GE possibly selling NBC Universal to Comcast.

Hewlett Packard HPQ $45.23 -0.73 1.59% 15,757,742 NYSE: BRN's p28 "NetApp Has Its Price" by Mark Veverka discusses Netapp, the data storage outfit, that may be for sale. NetApp closed Fri. at 25.89 more than double its Nov. low of 10.39 and its shares are trading at 24 times expected earnings. Cisco may be a suitor but it seems too invested in its relationship with Netapp's competitor EMC, which also specializes in data storage equipment. IBM benefits enough from its selling relationship with NetApp without needing to own the company which leaves Hewlett-packard as a possible suitor because it could beef up its storage hardware products portfolio. But HPQ CEO Mark Hurd isn't one to overpay, especially if NetApp is no longer growing.

Home Depot HD $26.03 -0.29 1.1% 11,955,788 NYSE: Atl Bus Chron says Carol Tome, cfo, of HD jointed Home Dept in '95 and is one of Atlanta's highest ranking woman execs. Tome has recently been appointeded deputy chair of the Atlanta Fed and will take over next year as its chair. The news items talks about her recent speech before the Rotary Club in Atlanta on 9/28 ways paint is the only positive department in HD stores and she assumes that people who are out of work are painting their homes.

Intel INTC $18.97 +0.07 0.37% 55,972,279 NASDAQ-GS: Forbes p72 says Intel's former Gordon Moore is worth $3.7 bil.

IBM $118.89 +0.99 0.84% 6,901,571 NYSE: : BRN's p28 "NetApp Has Its Price" by Mark Veverka discusses Netapp, the data storage outfit, that may be for sale. NetApp closed Fri. at 25.89 mroe than double its Nov. low of 10.39 and its shares are trading at 24 times expected earnings. Cisco may be a suitor but it seems too invested in its relationship with Netapp;s competitor EMC, which also specializes in data storage equipment. IBM benefits enough from its selling relationship with NetApp without needing to own the company which leaves Hewlett-Packard as a possible suitor because it could beef up its storage hardware products portfolio. But HPQ CEO Mark Hurd isn't one to overpay, especially if NetApp is no longer growing.

JPMorgan Chase JPM $41.8027 +0.4327 1.05% 39,977,084 NYSE: BRN's p12 notes the shakeup of the exeuctives at JPMorgan Chase with Bill Winters being pushed out and Jes Staley promoted to head investment banking and at p14 "JPMorgan Shuffle Shows Strength by Lawrence C. Strauss says the executive shuffling at JPM last week is jost one more reason to like JPM's stock for the long term. The moves, focused on the asset management and investment banking units, highlight the talent in JPM's upper reaches and lay the groundwork for the day, still far off when CEO Jamie Dimon steps down. An outperformer for the past 2 years, the stock could coimb by more than 60%. its stock is down about 11% since Barron's ran a bullish cover about JPM two years ago. But that is better than most bank stocks have fared. The KBW Bank Index fell 54% int he same period.

BW p62 in a story by Lauren Young says banks are folling Mint.com and launching their own persoanl finance tools: JPM's Blueprint services lets credit card customers design a free plan to manage spending and Bank of America's My Portfolio, aggregates accounts data from dozens of sources.

Atl Bus. Chron reports that a 161 unit cono project at Piedmont and Auburn avenues is in foreclosures and the 4 members lending consortium who are creditors include BAC and JPMorgan Chase.

Business Week at p5. reports JP Morgan's shakeup.

Johnson & Johnson JNJ $59.7 -0.11 0.18% 8,147,229 NYSE: BW p58 "J&J Tries to Buy Itself a Pipeline - It's snapping up biotechs, spearheading innovative alliances, and reshuffling R&D" by Arlene Weintraub, says Shiri S. McCoy, the head of JNJ's pharmaceutical division, has been doing acquisitions. In July JNJ devoured Cougar Biotechnology for $1 bi, in Sept. i paid $885 mil for an 18% stake in Elan and JNJ will pay $441 mil for 18% of Crucell, a dutch biotech company that's developing vaccines, a new porduct line for the 123 year old JNJ. A related story at BW p70 "How to Play It" by Aaron Pressman charts JNJ that says last year, the diversified health care giant saw its shares tumble 31% from over 70 to under 50 in just six months. Like other drugmakers, JNJ is suffering in the short term as some of its best selling drugs lose their patent protection.

Barron's p12 "Open Season on the Flu" says sales of hand sanitizers, a $117 million plus business shot up 54% for the four weeks through 9/6 with sales of Johnson & Johnson's Purell Purifying Essentials brand skyrocketing more than 1,000%. 3M's N95 respiratory masks are also selling well.

LBRN's p34 "Do-Good Fund Does Good" by Tom Sullivan focuses on WElls Fargo Advantage Social Sustainability Fund and its manager at Nelson Capital, Lloyd Kurtz who says his fifth biggest holding JNJ that, while by law must test its drugs on animals, it also makes charitable contributions to the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, is very community minded, and treats its employees well.

BRN's cover Story p22 "Boomer Consumer - As the boomers age, advertisers will have to rethink their overwhelming focus on youth, or miss a huge opportunity" by Gene Epstien says the baby boomers, who currently range in age from 45 to 63, are in the prime of power and number 77 million but they are being ignored by advertisers and marketers who are focusing on the 18 to 49 year olds. By 2015, when all the boomers will be over 50, folks aged 50 to 75 will account for 40% of adult consumers, up from 36.8% now. Bottom line, he says, is that older consumers will keep trudging off to WalMart, Bed Bath & Beyond, Target and Ikea for years. Along with pharmaceuticals and other health-related goods and services, beauty products should do well. Procter & Gamble's Olay, and Johnson & Johnson's Neutrogena have all launched products targeted to boomer women. Airlines and travel and entertainment companies such as cruise oeprator Carnival or Walt Disney already benefit from the over 50's and should gain more.

Kraft KFT $25.97 -0.02 0.08% 9,045,041 NYSE: BusWk p31 "When the CEO Job Is Split In Two - Dividing the post often leads to grief" by Matthew Boyle says that divvying up ceo responsibilities has had mixed results and said it didn't work from '01 to '03 at Kraft when Betsy Holden and Roger Deromedi were co-CEOs.

McDonald's MCD $56.72 -0.02 0.04% 8,235,791 NYSE: NYTimes Magazine p21 "Food - Cooking with Dexter: Happy-Meal Me - A parent can rpetend that McDonald's doesn't exist, but only for so long" by Peter Wells talks about his 5 year old son's relationship with McDonald has says McDonald's has "become a symbol of everything wrong with the way we eat." It ends with a recipe for fried pear pies but certainly damages MCD's reputation.

BRN's p20 "Emerging Baking Power - Standard Chartered avoided most of the traps that snared rival lenders during the past year, The stock is up, but could run higher still" by Leslie P. Norton says this British lender, Standard Chartered, isn't a typical big bank and posted record profits in '08 and the first half of '09 despite a dismal economy. Its customers include Walmart, Caterpillar, and McDonald's and is one of a small group of banks that include HSBC, JPM, and BNP Paribas that have the wherewithal to compete in overseas markets. its shares trade at twice book value and 11.4 times earnings compared to BAC's that trades at 0.7 times book and a whopping 95 times earnings.

Merck MRK $31.6401 +0.4601 1.48% 18,233,816 NYSE: BRN's pM7 "AstraZeneca Looks a Bit Wan" by Jonathan Buck says investors in search of a haven may be tempted to look at pharmaceutical stocks, but London-based Astra Zeneca is one they may want to pass one. AstraZeneca's ceo has rejected the possibility of a megamerger like Pfizer's buyout of Wyeth or Merck's purchase of Schering-Plough.

BRN's p41 in an article by Andrew Bary that discusses AVI BioPharma and its muscular dystrophy and antivirus therapies, says that its lead drug for Cuchenne muscular dystrophy is undergoing a key early stage clinical trial in the UK which could secure a bigger drug partner. Many big companies are willing to pay up for promising biotechs. In '06, for instance, Merck bought Sirna, a biotech with RNA interference technology simlar to AVI's for $1.1 bil.

Microsoft MSFT $24.96 +0.08 0.32% 49,568,669 NASDAQ-GS: BW p 40 in a story about Turkey by Stanley Reed it says Microsoft's software sales in Turkey are growing at 20 to 30% a year.

Forbes p62 says MSFT's CEO, Steven Ballmer is worth $13.3 bil.

Pfizer PFE $16.15 -0.16 0.98% 47,208,799 NYSE: BRN's pM7 "AstraZeneca Looks a Bit Wan" by Jonathan Buck says investors in search of a haven may be tempted to look at pharmaceutical stocks, but London-based Astra Zeneca is one they may want to pass one. AstraZeneca's ceo has rejected the possibility of a megamerger like Pfizer's buyout of Wyeth or Merck's purchase of Schering-Plough.

Procter & Gamble PG $56.75 +0.13 0.23% 13,017,371 NYSE: BRN's cover Story p22 "Boomer Consumer - As the boomers age, advertisers will have to rethink their overwhelming focus on youth, or miss a huge opportunity" by Gene Epstien says the baby boomers, who currently range in age from 45 to 63, are in the prime of power and number 77 million but they are being ignored by advertisers and marketers who are focusing on the 18 to 49 year olds. By 2015, when all the boomers will be over 50, folks aged 50 to 75 will account for 40% of adult consumers, up from 36.8% now. Bottom line, he says, is that older consumers will keep trudging off to WalMart, Bed Bath & Beyond, Target and Ikea for years. Along with pharmaceuticals and other health-related goods and services, beauty products should do well. Procter & Gamble's Olay, and Johnson & Johnson's Neutrogena have all launched products targeted to boomer women. Airlines and travel and entertainment companies such as cruise operator Carnival or Walt Disney already benefit from the over 50's and should gain more.

3M MMM $71.93 -0.62 0.85% 3,227,584 NYSE: Barron's p12 "Open Season on the Flu" says sales of hand sanitizers, a $117 million plus business shot up 54% for the four weeks through 9/6 with sales of Johnson & Johnson's Purell Purifying Essentials brand skyrocketing more than 1,000%. 3M's N95 respiratory masks are also selling well.

Traveler's TRV $49.04 +0.27 0.55% 4,901,072 NYSE: BRN's pM47 has a table "per Share Values of Stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average" with the highest being Traveler's at 43.37 and the lowest being Boeing and the only negative book value at -1.78.

UTX $59.63 -0.36 0.6% 4,642,498 NYSE: No mentions found.

VZ $29.89 -0.12 0.4% 16,349,203 NYSE: No mentions found.

WalMart WMT $49.08 +0.08 0.16% 14,888,375 NYSE: BRN's cover Story p22 "Boomer Consumer - As the boomers age, advertisers will have to rethink their overwhelming focus on youth, or miss a huge opportunity" by Gene Epstien says the baby boomers, who currently range in age from 45 to 63, are in the prime of power and number 77 million but they are being ignored by advertisers and marketers who are focusing on the 18 to 49 year olds. By 2015, when all the boomers will be over 50, folks aged 50 to 75 will account for 40% of adult consumers, up from 36.8% now. Bottom line, he says, is that older consumers will keep trudging off to WalMart, Bed Bath & Beyond, Tartet and Ikea for years. Along with pharmaceuticals and other health-related goods and services, beauty products should do well. Procter & Gamble's Olay, and Johnson & Johnson's Neutrogena have all launched products targeted to boomer women. Airlines and travel and entertainment companies such as cruise oeprator Carnival or Walt Diseny already benefit from the over 50's and should gain more.

BRN's pM8 "Seasonal Unease" by Steven M. Sears says warning of slow economic growth might be a subtle way for corporations to preannounce disappointing third quarter earnings, or to soften stock declines of the companies offer less than rosy earnings outlooks for the much anticipated fourth quarter. With stocks so far above March lows, corporations must convince investors that their price to earnings multiples are justified. When GE and WalMart warned of lethargic economic growth during the previous week, their shares did not suffer,. Bot stocks are still "toppy" and stalled.

BRN's p20 "Emerging Baking Power - Standard Chartered avoided most of the traps that snared rival lenders during the past year, The stock is up, but could run higher still" by Leslie P. Norton says this British lender, Standard Chartered, isn't a typical big bank and posted record profits in '08 and the first half of '09 despite a dismal economy. Its customers include Walmart, Caterpillar, and McDonald's and is one of a small group of banks that include HSBC, JPM, and BNP Paribas that have the wherewithal to compete in overseas markets. its shares trade at twice book value and 11.4 times earnings compared to BAC's that trades at 0.7 times book and a whopping 95 times earnings.

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Here are the latest SEC filings as of 9/25/09 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: 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 T provided redeemed certain long-term debt issues as of September 28, 2009.

Alcoa AA: 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: 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: 9/24/09 several free writing prospectus regarding issuance of securities.

Boeing BA: 9/15/09 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: 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 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 Manufacturersto 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.

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: 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. He will a $75,000 annual retainer, $2,000 per committee meeting attended, and 16,666 shares.

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; Wim 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: 8/13/09 8K 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 On 9/17/09 HPQ elected 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

9/4/09 10-Q

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: 9/21/09 A tender offer regarding exchange of some of its stock options with its employees.

9/16/09 An intranet article re the Stock Option Exchange Program.

9/15/09 8K Intel is consolidating 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.

8/28/09 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: 9/8/09 8K IBM representatives will be meeting with a number of institutional investors through mid-September.

7/28/09 10Q

JPMorganChase JPM: 9/23/09 Various free writing prospectus re: issuance of securities.

9/17/09 prospectus reReverse Exchangeable Notes due December 21, 2009 Linked to Eight Equally Weighted Reference Stocks and in preceding days there were similar prospectuses.

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: 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: 9/9/09 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 50 percent 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: 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 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: 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.
o 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

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 9/25/09:

1. Exxon Mobil XOM $331
2. Microsoft MSFT 231
3. WalMart WMT 196
4. GE 176
5. Procter & Gamble PG 169
6. JPMorgan Chase 167
7. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 167
8. IBM 162
9. At&t T 159
10. Chevron CVX 142
11. Cisco CSCO 131
12. Coke KO 121
13. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 112
14. Pfizer PFE 111
15. Intel INTC 109
16. Bank of Am BAC 109
17. Verizon VZ 86
18. Merck MRK 65
19. McDonald's MCD 61
20. United Technologies UTX 59
21. Disney DIS 52
22. 3M MMM 52
23. Home Depot 46
24. American Express AXP 40
25. Kraft KFT 39
26. Boeing BA 38
27. Caterpillar CAT 32
28. DuPont DD 29
29. Traveler's TRV 27
30. Alcoa AA 13