Tuesday, November 24, 2009

11/24/09 pm Dow Closes 10433.71 down 17.24 down 0.16%

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Tuesday at 10433.71 down 17.24 or 0.16% from Monday's close of 10,450.95. Of the 30 Dow Companies: 19 declined and 11 gained. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was and percentage-wise was Verizon VZ $31.87 +0.54 1.72% 25,883,692 NYSE. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was Hewlett-Packard HPQ 50.19 -0.83 1.63% 17,212,089 NYSE and percentage-wise was JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase 42.48 -0.80 1.85% 31,524,799 NYSE.

As of the open of the market Monday, the current divisor for the Dow found at page C4 of The Wall St. Jrnl is .132319125 unchanged, the trailing P/E ratio is 17.87down from Friday's 17.90 (year ago it was 16.85) the P/E estimate is 16.04 up from Friday's 15.82 (year ago it was 8.95) and the current dividend yield is 2.70 up from Friday's 2.69 (it was 4.03 a year ago).

Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1380.58 down 2.28from Monday's closing Dow numerator of 1382.86. 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 decrease of 2.28 for Tuesday by the divisor you get the decrease in Tuesday's Dow close of 17.24.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was 46.02 down 0.08 from Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing price of $46.10. The median closing price of Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was 38.83 down 0.17 from Monday's median closing price of $39. The lowest volume Friday was again 3M MMM $77.61 -0.12 0.15% 2,728,467 NYSE and the highest volume again was Bank of Am BAC $16.1 -0.19 1.17% 115,700,245 NYSE.

If Tuesday morning before the market opened you had purchased 100 shares 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 lost $240 ($138,300 - $138,060).

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

AT&T T $27.1 +0.32 1.19% 34,438,249 NYSE
Alcoa AA $12.92 -0.14 1.07% 31,292,406 NYSE
American Express AXP $41.44 -0.19 0.46% 7,044,890 NYSE
Bank of America BAC $16.1 -0.19 1.17% 115,700,245 NYSE
Boeing BA $51.97 -0.66 1.25% 3,220,223 NYSE
Caterpillar CAT $58 -0.14 0.24% 6,593,800 NYSE
Chevron CVX $79.03 +0.29 0.37% 8,266,731 NYSE
Cisco CSCO $23.74 -0.16 0.67% 29,827,442 NASDAQ-GS
Coca-Cola KO $58.19 -0.05 0.09% 7,772,639 NYSE
Disney DIS $30.23 -0.25 0.82% 7,795,147 NYSE
DuPont DD $34.67 -0.09 0.26% 4,988,422 NYSE
Exxon Mobil XOM $75.97 +0.27 0.36% 16,935,588 NYSE
GE $16.12 +0.10 0.62% 80,242,547 NYSE
Hewlett-Packard HPQ $50.19 -0.83 1.63% 17,212,089 NYSE
Home Depot HD $27.56 +0.05 0.18% 11,628,656 NYSE
Intel INTC $19.39 -0.01 0.05% 52,219,657 NASDAQ-GS
IBM $127.93 -0.27 0.21% 4,798,827 NYSE
JPMorgan Chase JPM $42.48 -0.80 1.85% 31,524,799 NYSE
Johnson & Johnson JNJ $63.18 +0.49 0.78% 9,633,954 NYSE
Kraft KFT $27.22 -0.12 0.44% 8,769,869 NYSE
McDonald's MCD $64.22 +0.23 0.36% 8,258,219 NYSE
Merck MRK $36.22 -0.20 0.55% 21,145,504 NYSE
Microsoft MSFT $29.91 -0.03 0.1% 37,054,667 NASDAQ-GS
Pfizer PFE $18.31 -0.22 1.19% 58,375,587 NYSE
Procter & Gamble PG $62.8 +0.07 0.11% 9,718,961 NYSE
3M MMM $77.61 -0.12 0.15% 2,728,467 NYSE
Travelers TRV $53.09 +0.12 0.23% 3,013,513 NYSE
United Technologies UTX $68.27 -0.46 0.67% 3,794,076 NYSE
Verizon VZ $31.87 +0.54 1.72% 25,883,692 NYSE
WalMart WMT $54.85 +0.17 0.31% 10,455,830 NYSE

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The following appeared in Tues. morning's Blog:

A read of Tuesday's 11/24/09 print editions of: Wall St. Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Investors Business Daily, USA Today, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Nov. 23 - 27, 2009 InvestmentNews, 11/16/09 Securities Industry News, Dec. '09 issue of US Banker & Daily Report (Ga) 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 10450.95 up 132.79 from Friday's close of 10,318.16. Of the 30 Dow Companies: 3 declined and 27 gained. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was CVX $78.73 +1.96 2.55% 7,987,843 NYSE and percentage-wise was GE $16.015 +0.425 2.73% 68,711,224 NYSE. The biggest decliner dollar-wise and percentage-wise was Alcoa AA $13.04 -0.09 0.69% 21,003,172 NYSE.

AT&T T $26.79 +0.77 2.96% 42,085,606 NYSE: Inv. Bus. Daily pA4 "AT&T Must Plan for War If It Enters India" by Reinhardt Krause says India's fierce price war in wireless phone services gives AT&T plenty of think about as India nears a long delayed auction of 3G wireless spectrum. AT&T hasn't said whether it will take part in the auction, scheduled for mid Jan. Attracted by the fast growth of India's market, it wold mark one of AT&T's few moves outside the US. Analysts doubt AT&T would go it alone in the auction, but they say it could partner with a local firm.

Alcoa AA $13.04 -0.09 0.69% 21,003,172 NYSE: No mentions found.

American Express AXP $41.61 +0.68 1.66% 11,084,511 NYSE: No mentions found.

Bank of America BAC
$16.25 +0.16 0.99% 132,081,056 NYSE: WSJ pC1 "Banks Grapple With Debt Avalanche" by Carrick Mollenkamp, Serena Ng says banks have spent the past year dealing with a mountain of bad assets. Now attention is turning to trillions of dollars of debt they have maturing over the next few years. Banks unable to maneuver around the challenge could be forced to refinance their debt at sharply higher costs. Large banks such as Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America said they expect no problem refinancing at affordable rates and that they have historically high levels of cash to cover maturing debt funding. BofA must deal with debts totaling about $55.4 bil in '10, $35.3 bil '11 and $58.4 bil in '12. JPMorgan Chase faces about $130 bil maturing through '12.

Inv. News "Former BofA exec Bodurtha lands in Citigroup private banking biz" says longtime Merrill Lynch exec, Steve Bodurtha, has been hired by Citi to be head of investments for North America in its private banking operation. Mr. Bodurtha will oversee the investments platformm for City Private Bank across the US and Canda. Bordurtha recently left BofA Merrill Lynch. Sallie Krawcheck, the new head of BofA's global wealth and investment management unit and former Citi CFO sent out a memo in late Set. outlining he new management team in the global wealth and investment management group. In that memo, she noted that Citigroup exec Andrew Sieg had been hired to head BofA's retirement and philanthropic services unit and that Bodurtha planned to retire.

Fin Times p20 "Gifford came close to losing BofA board seat" by Greg Farrell says the director guiding the search for Bank of America's next ceo came close to losing his board seat last year after questioning the Merrill Lynch acquisition. Chad Gifford, former CEO of Fleet Financial, the bank acquired by BofA in '04, was a voice of dissent at a board meeting in Sept. '08 when Ken Lewis, BofA ceo said the bank would buy Merrill Lynch but Gifford ultimately went along with the acquisition because the impending bankruptcy of Lehman Bros. would wreak havoc in the markets but he wanted to know why Lewis could not wait a few more days before buying Merrill.

Boeing BA $52.58 +0.88 1.7% 3,016,726 NYSE: No mentions found.

Caterpillar CAT $58.04 +0.09 0.16% 9,003,290 NYSE: No mentions found.

Chevron CVX $78.73 +1.96 2.55% 7,987,843 NYSE: WSJ pC1 "What Gloom? Blue Chips Rise 132.79, Gold Joins In" by Peter A. McKay, Donna Kardos Yesalavich says stocks snapped a 3 day losing streak and the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a new '09 high as strong housing data and comments from a Fed. Res. official sent investors back into the market. The Dow had its highest close since Oct. 2, '08. Chevron was the biggest contributor, up 2.6% after oil futures rose. The Dow hit its intraday high in the morning, up more than 177 points, afer Nat'l Assoc. of Realtors data showed that home resales increased by 10% in Oct., substantially more than expected. The market also got a boost from remarks by St. Louis Fed. Pres. James Bullard who suggested that the US should continue buying mortgage backed securities past the first quarter of '10, when asset purchases are due to end.

WSJ pC5 "Verizon Advances 3%; Chevron, Exxon Rise" by Donna Kardos Yesalavich says stocks climbed, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a new '09 closing high, as energy firms Chevron and Exxon Mobil and telecommunications giants Verizon Communications and AT&T led a broad rally. American depositary receipts of Cadbury rose 1.9% on new reports that Hershey, Nestle and Italy's Ferrero were all considering rival offers for it against Kraft's $16.3 bil bid.

Cisco CSCO $23.9 +0.44 1.88% 28,796,404 NASDAQ-GS: No mentions found.

Coca-Cola KO
$58.23 +0.75 1.3% 8,598,951 NYSE: AJC pA9 "Coke to boost visibility in cities" by Duane D. Stanford says KO will saturate more US urban areas next year in a strategy intended to reverse volume declines. KO plans to double the number of so called boost zones from 50 North American locations this year wherein KO and its biggest bottle work directly with retailers to make Coke brands more visible on everything from redesigned menus to visor sworn by fast food workers.

Disney DIS $30.4901 +0.4801 1.6% 7,463,066 NYSE: No mentions found.

DuPont DD $34.73 +0.22 0.64% 4,515,914 NYSE: No mentions found.

ExxonMobil XOM
$75.69 +1.31 1.76% 17,553,950 NYSE: WSJ pC5 "Verizon Advances 3%; Chevron, Exxon Rise" by Doknna Kardos Yesalavich says stocks climbed, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a new '09 closing high, as energy firms Chevron and Exxon Mobil and telecommunications giants Verizon Communications and AT&T led a broad rally. American depositary receipts of Cadbury rose 1.9% on new reports that Hershey, Nestle and Italy's Ferrero were all considering rival offers for it against Kraft's $16.3 bil bid.

GE $16.015 +0.425 2.73% 68,711,224 NYSE: WSJ pC10 "Vivendi Finds Itself in the Catbird Seat" by Matthew Curtin says the French media group is the biggest hurdle between GE and a sale of half its NBC Universal unit to Comcast. Vivendi wants up to $6 bil for its 20% stake of NBCU. GE is said to be offering at least $500 mil less. Vivendi doesn't need the cash and cold play hardball, arguing that a sale to GE means waiting for at least a year until the Comcast deal closes to get its money. Vivendi wold need to be brave to threaten GE with an IPO and risk having to follow through.

WSJ pB2 "Vivendi Acts to Boost Control of Canal Plus" by Ruth Bender, Max Colchester, Sam Schechner says Vivendi SA is moving to increase its control over pay TV biz Canal Plus France through 2 separate transactions. French broadcaster Television Francaise 1 SA said it will sell its 9.9% stake in Canal Plus France to Vivendi for $1.12 bil. Vivendi, meanwhile, said it has made an offer on the same terms to M6-Metropole Television SA to buy its 5.1% stake in Canal Plus Franche, which is a unit of Vivendi's pay TV unit Canal Plus Group. Separately, GE and Vivendi continue to wrangle over a price difference.

Fin Times p16 "GE Hitachi eyes UK reactor plan" by Ed Crooks says GE Hitachi, a US Japanese jv is looking to reenter the UK market to bid for a share of UK's planned renaissance of nuclear power. GE Hitachi has told UK officials it can build reactors on time and on budget avoiding the problems that have bedevilled other nuclear projects and claimed that its design is safer than any other on the market. This move will intensify competition in what is set to be one of the most lucrative nuclear markets in the world thanks to the UK gov's ambitious plans for at least 10 reactors to be built by 2030.

Hewlett-Packard HPQ $51 +0.96 1.92% 13,325,001 NYSE: WSJ pB1 "H-P Gets a Boost From Services Unit"by Justin Scheck, NYT pB5 "Hewlett-packard's Profit Rises, With China's Help" by Rueters, & AJC pA10 say Hewlett-Packard reported a 14% jump in quarterly profit, an indication that a big bet on tech services and cost cutting has put HP in a strong position as the economy starts to recover. The 4Q results, which PH had previewed, contrast sharply with a 54% drop in profits announced by rival Dell last week. Results for HP's pc business showed the firm has increased its market share, partly becuz HP is stronger in consumer segments that have accounted for most pc growth recently. HP, the world's largest tech firm by revenue, is considered a bellwether in the sector because its broad biz portfolio includes printers, pc's, corp. tech systems, ad tech outsourcing services. HP, based in Palo Alto, Calif., reported income for the period ended 10/31 of $2.4 bil or 99 cents a share, up from 42.1 bil or 84 cents a share int he year earlier period. Rev. declined to $30.1 bil from $33.6 bil. HPQ's results included a 48% jump in operating profit to $1.4 bil for it services businesses, reflecting cost cutting following its $13 bil purchase of Electronic Data Systems last year. Rev. from services increased 8%, though the year ago quarter included only 2 months of EDS rev. The NYTimes story has a photo of HPQ's CEO,Mrk HHurd, in front of an event larger photo of him that looks like a giant poster and is ironic under the word "China" in the headline because it is reminiscent of some Mao Tse Tung like propaganda where when the dictator would speak there would be huge photos of the leader everywhere. Ego.

Home Depot HD $27.51 +0.33 1.21% 16,955,438 NYSE: No mentions found.

Intel INTC $19.4 +0.16 0.83% 42,134,720 NASDAQ-GS: No mentions found.

IBM $128.11 +1.15 0.91% 6,606,989 NYSE: No mentions found.

J.P.MorganChase JPM
$43.22 +0.76 1.79% 27,934,496 NYSE: WSJ pA1 "1 in 4 Borrowers Under Water" by Ruth Simon,James R. Hagery says the proportion of US homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than the properties are worth has swelled to about 23%, threatening prospects for a sustained housing report. Nearly 10.7 mil households had negative equity in their homes in 3Q. Economists from JPMorgan Chase said they didn't expect US home prices to hit bottom unitl early 2011, citing the prospect of oversupply. Home prices have fallen so far that 5.3 il US households are tied to mortgages that are at least 20% higher than their home's value.

WSJ pC2 "JPMorgan Taps Shao as China Chief" by Amy Or, Rick Carew & Fin Times p20 "JPMorgan hires top lawyer for Asiapush" by Sundeep Tucker say JPMorgan Chse hired Zili Shao, the Asia managing partner at law firm Linklaters LLP, as chairman and ceo for China. He will oversee all of JMorgan's operations in China, including investment banking, treasury services and asset management starting in Jan.

Securities News p 21 "Building a Prime Brokerage" by Carol E. Curtis says JPMorgan's suite of webbased, multi-asset class, multicurrency portfolio functions provides services to prime brokerages firms such as FBR Capital Markets which is profiled in this story. After the collapse of Lehman Bros. and economic fallout out last year, hedge funds and asset managers immediately reassessed their prime brokerage relationships and began to seek out firms with the strongest balance sheets, such as JPMorgan, Credit Suisse and Deusche Bank.

Johnson & Johnson JNJ $62.7 +0.39 0.63% 12,247,617 NYSE: No mentions found.

Kraft KFT $27.32 +0.15 0.55% 8,407,469 NYSE: WSJ pC10 "In Hershey, Don't Trust" by John Jannarone, "The Emotions Of Hershey's Bid" & Fin Times p14 "Hershey/Cadbury" say Hershey's controlling shareholder is considering a huge bet on Cadbury to resuscitate its investment. The charitable trust that owns 32% of Hershey is pushing for a deal to buy Cadbury which is surprising because Hershey has a market cap of $8.3 bil yet is thinking of a stand alone bid for Cadbury that would require more than $17 bil to top Kraft's bid. Also, Hershey Trust backed out of a deal to sell the firm to Wrigley in '02 for $89 a share and Hershey's stock now trades at $36. There is a chart showing market caps with Nestle first at $171.4 bil, Kraft second at $45. bil, followed by Cadbury at $18.1 bil and Hershey at $8.3 Bil.

WSJ pC5 "Verizon Advances 3%; Chevron, Exxon Rise" by Doknna Kardos Yesalavich says stocks climbed, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a new '09 closing high, as energy firms Chevron and Exxon Mobil and telecommunications giants Verizon Communications and AT&T led a broad rally. American depositary receipts of Cadbury rose 1.9% on new reports that Hershey, Nestle and Italy's Ferrero were all considering rival offers for it against Kraft's $16.3 bil bid.

McDonald's MCD $63.94 -0.03 0.05% 6,351,587 NYSE: No mentions found.

Merck MRK
$36.39 -0.07 0.19% 17,665,406 NYSE: WSJ pD2 "New Viozz Analysis Finds Earlier Risks" by Jonathan D. Rockoff says there was strong evidence showing Vioxx significantly increased the risk of heart attack and death at least 3 years before the painkiller was pulled from the market, according to researchers with ties to plaintiffs' attorneys in Vioxx litigation who analyzed data from clinical trials of the drug, including some that were unpublished. The painkiller Vioxx was taken off the market in '04. Merck & Co., the maker of Viozz, said its own scientists had monitored the safety of Vioxx and hadn't found evidence it increased the risk of heart related side effects.

Related story at NYT pB2 "Public Database is Urged To Monitor Drug Safety" by Natasha Singer says a new study in Archives of Internal Medicine offers an ambitious proposal to determine a drug's risks sooner than they might otherwise become evident. It proposes a system to examine widely prescribed drugs through safety analyses that would pool data as they emerge from various clinical trials of a medication and aggregate the info for a fuller picture of a drug's harms and benefits. It says had studies of the pain drug Vioxx, sold by Merck, been combined cumulatively, the increased risk of heart problems would have been known several years before Merck pulled the drug.

WSJ pD4 "Fosamax Sit Dismissal" by Chad Bray says a fed judge dismissed the second of 3 "bellwether" product liability suits involving Merck's osteoporosis drug Fosamax. US Dist. Judge John F. Keegan granted Merck's request for summary judgment in an order Mon. in Manhattan. The suit was brought by a 74 year old Miss. woman who said she developed a severe jaw condition known as osteonecrosis as a result of taking Fosamax.

Microsoft MSFT
$29.94 +0.32 1.08% 41,115,505 NASDAQ-GS: Inv. Bus Daily pA2 "Microsoft, News Corp. mull deal," NY Times pB1 "News Corp. Weighs an Exclusive Alliance With Bing," Fin Times p14 "News Corp/Microsoft," & Fin Times p18 "Microsoft in move to cut out Google" by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Tim Bradshaw, Ben Fenton, Ben Hall say Microsoft has talked with news Corp. about a tie up that owuld involve News Corp. getting paid to take its news Web sites off Google's search engine. The NYTimes sotry has a photo of Walt MMossberg and MSFT CE, Sateve Ballmer, with Steve's finger pointing straight up and Mossberg laughing as if to say, "Its a good thing you are not holding up the other finger."

Fin Timesp12 "The corporate diplomats" by Richard Milne says Nani Beccalli, ceo of GE International, is one of a select but growing gorup of execs who run their firms' activities in the world outside N. America. This article profiles a select group of execs being employed by US firms to connect with the world sand also features Jean-Phillippe Courtois, Pres of Microsoft Int'lm, Pres. of GM Int'l Operations, and Richard Gnodde, co CEO of Goldman Sachs Int'l.

Pfizer PFE $18.51 +0.15 0.82% 66,913,375 NYSE: WSJ pD4 "Award in Hormone Suit" by Peter Loftus & NYT pB1 "A 2nd Loss For Pfizer In Drug Suits" by Duff Wilson say a jury awarded $28 mil in punitive damages in Pa. sate court Mon. to a plaintiff who claimed her use of Pfize's hormone therapy drugs caused breast cancer. The jury had awarded $6.3 mil in compensatory damages on Fri. to the plaintiff, Donnna Kendall of Decatur, Ill. The jury found that Pfizer units had engaged in a pattern of willful and reckless conduct. Wyeth was the primary seller of hormone therapy drugs, and Pfizer recently acquired th firm. A separate Pfizer unit, Upjohn was a defendant in the case.

Procter & Gamble PG $62.73 +0.93 1.5% 9,968,368 NYSE: No mentions found.

3M MMM $77.73 +1.09 1.42% 3,372,730 NYSE: No mentions found.

Travelers TRV $52.99 +0.61 1.16% 3,782,715 NYSE: No mentions found.

United Technologies UTX $68.73 +0.76 1.12% 3,233,778 NYSE: No mentions found.

Verizon VZ
$31.33 +0.90 2.96% 21,817,788 NYSE: WSJ pC5 "Verizon Advances 3%; Chevron, Exxon Rise" by Doknna Kardos Yesalavich says stocks climbed, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a new '09 closing high, as energy firms Chevron and Exxon Mobil and telecommunications giants Verizon Communications and AT&T led a broad rally. American depositary receipts of Cadbury rose 1.9% on new reports that Hershey, Nestle and Italy's Ferrero were all considering rival offers for it against Kraft's $16.3 bil bid.

Walmart WMT $33.25 +0.95 2.94% 2,338,888 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 who will be replaced by Douglas Oberhelman in 2010.
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
11/6/09 followed by number of shares outstanding rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:

1. Exxon Mobil XOM $349 [5]
2. Microsoft MSFT 254 [9]
3. WalMart WMT 198 [4]
4. Procter & Gamble PG 178 [3]
5. JPMorgan Chase 171 [4]
6. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 164 [3]
7. GE 163 [10.5]
8. IBM 162 [1.5]
9. Chevron CVX 155 [2]
10. Cisco CSCO 155 [6]
11. AT&T 153 [6]
12. BAC 130 [6.5]
13. Coke KO 126 [2]
14. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 117 [ 2]
15. Pfizer PFE 116 [7]
16. Intel INTC 106 [5.5]
17. Verizon VZ 69 [3]
18. Merck MRK 69 [2
19. McDonald's MCD 67 [1]
20. United Technologies UTX 61 [1]
21. 3M MMM 53 [.5]
22. Disney DIS 53 [2]
23. Home Depot 44 [2]
24. American Express AXP 44 [1]
25. Kraft KFT 40 [1.5]
26. Caterpillar CAT 36 [.5]
27. Boeing BA 34 [1]
28. DuPont DD 30 [1]
29. Travelers 28 [.5]
30. Alcoa AA 11 [1]

Here are the latest SEC filings as of 11/7/09 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: 11/6/09 8K announced the completion of the acquisition of Centennial Communications Corp. a regional provider of wireless and wired communications services for $945 million in cash.
11/5/09 10-Q

Alcoa AA: 10/23/09 10Q

American Express AXP: 10/30/09 10Q

Bank of Am BAC: 11/6/09 10Q

Boeing BA: 11/5/09 8K to reflect certain adjustments that have been made to prior year consolidated financial statements that were previously filed with the SEC on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008.

Caterpiller CAT: 10/30/09 10-Q

Chevron CVX: 11/5/09 10Q

Cisco CSCO: 11/4/09 8K On November 4, 2009, Cisco reported its results of operations for its fiscal first quarter 2010 ended October 24, 2009. Advisor, $750,000.

Coke KO: 10/29/09 10QA

Disney DIS: 10/27/09 Amended S-4 related to the takeover of Marvel.

DuPont DD: 11/5/09 Prospectus relating to $1,000,000,000 3.250% Notes due January 15, 2015 & $1,000,000,000 4.625% Notes due January 15, 2020

ExxonMobil XOM: 11/5/09 10Q

GE: 11/6/09 10QA

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.

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

Intel INTC: 11/5/09 8K Regulation FD Disclosure that on November 4, 2009, NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a lawsuit against Intel in the US Dist. Ct. for the District of Delaware alleging that Intel has violated the federal antitrust laws, the New York Donnelly Act (N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 340 et seq.), and § 63(12) of the New York Executive Law. The lawsuit alleges that Intel has engaged in a worldwide campaign of illegal, exclusionary conduct to maintain Intel’s alleged monopoly power and prices in the market for x86 microprocessors. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages trebled, restitution, disgorgement, an injunction, $1,000,000 for each violation of the Donnelly Act, and attorneys’ fees and costs. Intel strongly disagrees with the plaintiff’s allegations and claims, and intends to conduct a vigorous defense of the lawsuit.

IBM: 11/5/09 8K announcing its Form S-3, effective August 3, 2007, relating to $2,000,000,000 of debt securities of the Registrant.

JPMorganChase JPM: 11/6/09 Reg. FD disclosure relating to an investor conference.

Johnson & Johnson JNJ: 11/4/09 10Q

Kraft KFT: 11/3/09 10Q

McDonalds MCD: 11//5/09 10Q

Merck MRK: 11/4/09 8K announcing the consummation on November 3, 2009 of the merger of Merck & Co., Inc. &, Schering-Plough Corporation.

Microsoft MSFT: 10/23/09 10Q

Pfizer PFE: 11/5/09 10Q

Procter & Gamble PG: 10/29/09 10Q

3M MMM: 10/20/09 10Q

Travelers TRV: 10/22/09 10Q

United Technologies UTX: 10/23/09 10Q

Verizon Communications Inc. VZ:/11/2/09 8K announcing VZ adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 160, Noncontrolling Interests in Consolidated Financial Statements — an amendment of ARB No. 51 (SFAS No. 160).

Wal-Mart WMT: 8K 9/18/09 pricing agreement relating to a $1 bil Euro Note Offering.
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