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A read of Thursday's 12/3/09 print editions of: Wall St. Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Investor's Business Daily, USA Today, Atlanta Journal Constitution, & 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 Wednesday's closing price and related data:

Dow: As of the open of the market today, the current divisor for the Dow found at page C4 of Wall St. Jrnl is .132319125 unchanged, the trailing P/E ratio is 18.13 down from Wednesday's 18.17 (year ago it was 17.94) the P/E estimate is 16.17 up from Wed.'s 16.04 (year ago it was 10.27) and the current dividend yield is 2.65 down from Wednesday's 2.67 (it was 3.65 a year ago).

WSJ pC1 "Dow Drops 18.90 Points, Led by banks" by Peter A. McKay says bearish news about banks, a slide in oil prices, and glum signals about the US jobs outlook weighed on stocks. But gold hit another record. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was hurt in part by Bank of America's 1.5% drop after The Wall Street Journal reported that 2 ceo candidates said the firm should consider breaking itself up, although the board rejected the idea. Also weighing on financials, UBS analysts cut their 4Q earnings targets for several banks and Sanford C. Bernstein said JP Morgan Chase could face a big rev decline under a worst case scenario for derivatives legislation.

WSJ pC5 "Alcoa Climbs 6.6%; Walgreen Falls Short" by Geoffrey Rogow says analysts' bearish comments weighed on J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and other financials, though another round of buying in Alcoa and other materials stocks kept any broad market declines muted. Index decliners were led by Bank of America down 1.5%. McDonald's was also weak off 1.05% after Pres. and coo Ralph Alvarez said he will retire at the end of the year for health reasons. He was the likely successor to CEO Jim Skinner. On the positive side, Alcoa rose 6.6% pushing up the S&P 500 as well. GameStop dropped 8.3% after WalMart announced a holiday promotion on video games and console systems that could help it steal market share.

Fin Times p26 "Airlines lifted by bullish outlook but dollar damps rally" by Samantha Pearson says optimism across the airline industry was not enough to sustain Wall St's rally yesterday after the dollar regained its footing. The ADP employment report also showed more private sector jobs had been lost in Nov. than expected.

Inv. Bus. Daily pA1 "Major Indexes Close Mixed As Volume Goes south" by Paul Whitfield says stocks opened higher Wed., then wandered indecisively en route to a so-so finish. Indexes were mixed and volume was lower across the board. Current outlook is uptrend under pressure.

NYT pB10 "Results Hold Steady On Fed's Upbeat Report" by AP says the stock market struggled but held its ground Wed., as an upbeat assessment of the economy from the Fed. Reserve offset drops in bank and energy stocks. Most stocks finished higher after the Fed said regional economic activity had generally improved since its last snapshot in Oct. The central bank also said consumer spending has strengthened even though employment and commercial real estate has remained weak.

Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1383.09 down 2.5from Tuesday's closing Dow numerator of 1385.59. 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 2.5 for Wednesday by the divisor you get the decrease in Wednesday's Dow close of 18.90.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was 46.10 down 0.09 from Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing price of $46.19. The median closing price of Wednesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $41.49 down 0.27 from Tuesday's $41.76. The lowest volume Wednesday was again 3M MMM $78.41 -0.22 0.28% 2,951,546 NYSE and the highest volume again was Bank of Am BAC $15.65 -0.25 1.57% 111,585,098 NYSE.

If Wednesday 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 $270 ($138,570 - $138,300).

AT&T T $27.35 +0.17 0.63% 18,195,456 NYSE: WSJ pB8 "AT&T, Verizon Drop Suits" by Roger Cheng, AJC pA22 say Atlanta based AT&T Mobility agreed to dismiss its lawsuit against Verizon over commercials AT&T claimed mislead the public about AT&T's cellphone coverage area. US Fed. Dist. Judge Tim Batten ruled 2 weeks ago that the 3G coverage maps Verizon's commercials were sneaky but not misleading and encouraged AT&T to drop the suit.

Fin Times p14 "Wood sponsors take the long view" by Roger Blitz says many of Tiger Woods's sponsors made clear they intended to stick with the world number one golfer in the wake of his public apology to his family yesterday for transgressions in his private life. Gillette, the Procter & Gamble personal care biz, said it did not comment on the private lives of its "ambassadors" but said they are human and make mistakes. AT&T declined to comment as did other sponsors such as Nike, Gatorade and NetJets.

Alcoa AA $13.64 +0.84 6.56% 49,318,223 NYSE: WSJ pC5 "Alcoa Climbs 6.6%; Walgreen Falls Short" by Geoffrey Rogow says analysts' bearish comments weighed on J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and other financials, though another round of buying in Alcoa and other materials stocks kept any broad market declines muted. Index decliners were led by Bank of America down 1.5%. McDonald's was also weak off 1.05% after Pres. and coo Ralph Alvarez said he will retire at the end of the year for health reasons. He was the likely successor to CEO Jim Skinner. On the positive side, Alcoa rose 6.6% pushing up the S&P 500 as well. GameStop dropped 8.3% after WalMart announced a holiday promotion on video games and console systems that could help it steal market share.

American Express AXP $41.04 -0.26 0.63% 11,477,117 NYSE: Inv. Bus Daily pA6 "Tilt To Growth Is A Winner For Alger Funds" by Paul Katzeff interviews Dan Chung, Fred Alger management's CEO and CIO, who likes MaterCard because it has a global triopoly with Visa and American Express even though he acknowledges triopoly might not be a word. The use of debt and credit cards is still growing globally. MasterCard is better than American Express which takes on credit risk while MasterCard and Visa just process transactions.

In NYT's pA1 story on BofA repaying bailout funds at the jump to pB4 there is a chart that shows the bailout funds to the 14 banks with BofA getting the most at $45 bil, JPMorgan Chase was third getting $25 bil and they said they would repay all by year's end and last was American Express which got $3.4 bil.

Bank of America BAC $15.65 -0.25 1.57% 111,585,098 NYSE: WSJ pA1 "BofA Set to Repay Taxpayers" by Dan Fitzpatrick, Deborah Solomon, David Enrich, NYT pA1 "Bank of America Ready To Refund Fed. Bailout" by Louise Story, Inv. Bus. Daily pA1, AJC pA21 by Sara Lepro, AP say Bank of America said it will repay $45 bil in gov bailout funds in the next few days, to help the bank recruit a new CEO. It will use available cash and raise $18.8 bil in capital to repay the money, which it got during the height of the credit crisis last year after it bought Merrill Lynch. BofA has been seeking a successor to CEO Ken Lewis since he said he planned to resign on Dec. 31 back in Sept. In NYT's pA1 story on BofA repaying bailout funds at the jump to pB4 there is a chart that shows the bailout funds to the 14 banks with BofA getting the most at $45 bil, JPMorgan Chase was third getting $25 bil and they said they would repay all by year's end and last was American Express which got $3.4 bil.

WSJ pC1 "Dow Drops 18.90 Points, Led by banks" by Peter A. McKay says bearish news about banks, a slide in oil prices, and glum signals about the US jobs outlook weighed on stocks. But gold hit another record. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was hurt in part by Bank of America's 1.5% drop after The Wall Street Journal reported that 2 ceo candidates said the firm should consider breaking itself up, although the board rejected the idea. Also weighing on financials, UBS analysts cut their 4Q earnings targets for several banks and Sanford C. Bernstein said JP Morgan Chase could face a big rev decline under a worst case scenario for derivatives legislation.

WSJ pC5 "Alcoa Climbs 6.6%; Walgreen Falls Short" by Geoffrey Rogow says analysts' bearish comments weighed on J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and other financials, though another round of buying in Alcoa and other materials stocks kept any broad market declines muted. Index decliners were led by Bank of America down 1.5%. McDonald's was also weak off 1.05% after Pres. and coo Ralph Alvarez said he will retire at the end of the year for health reasons. He was the likely successor to CEO Jim Skinner. On the positive side, Alcoa rose 6.6% pushing up the S&P 500 as well. GameStop dropped 8.3% after WalMart announced a holiday promotion on video games and console systems that could help it steal market share.

WSJ pC14 "Heard on St." by Peter Eavis says BofA is being fashioned into the archetypical bank of America (typo, I think in the article). The bailout gave the Treasury the ability to influence how the nation's largest lender would look. Large banks will now have to hold far more high quality capital than before the bust. With the $20 bil it is raising, BofA's Tier 1 common equity ratio could rise to 8.5%, up from 7.25% in the 3Q which would give it more than twice the minimum Tier 1 common equity required by the gov stress tests in May.

Boeing BA $53.78 +0.06 0.11% 5,949,687 NYSE: Fin Times p13 "Pentagon battling to salvage contest for air tanker contract" by Jeremy Lemer says the Pentagon was scrambling to save a multibillion dollar contest to replace the US Air Force's ageing fleet of air refuelling tankers after Northrop Grumman and EADS in effect withdrew their joint bid. On Tues., Wes Bush, Northrop's coo, said his firm urged defense officials to alter the bid rules which it claimed favored rival Boeing but had been rebuffed so Northrup said it won't submit a bid.

Caterpillar CAT $58.94 -0.74 1.24% 7,846,344 NYSE: No mentions found.

Chevron CVX $78.73 -0.33 0.42% 6,211,103 NYSE: AJC pC2 Tiger Woods claiming he is recovering from injuries he suffered in a recent car crash will not attend the Chevron World Challenge golf tournament.

Cisco CSCO $23.87 -0.05 0.21% 30,580,914 NASDAQ-GS: No mentions found.

Coca-Cola KO $57.95 -0.13 0.22% 6,393,265 NYSE: No mentions found.

Disney DIS $30.79 +0.06 0.2% 11,045,797 NYSE: Fin Times p16 "Comcast's NBCU move is no joke" by Kenneth Li, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson says the deal wold create a rival to Disney. Analysts have said the deal is a bold bid to unite content and distribution by fusing the US's largest cable services firm with the nation's oldest broadcast network. The deal would give Comcast a 51% stake in a jv that combines NBCU with its own roster of smaller cable networks such as E! and the Gold Channel for only about $6.5 bil upfront cash. It will create the nation's largest entertainment firm; rivalling Disney which Comcast failed to buy in '04 for $60 bil.

DuPont DD $35.38 +0.28 0.8% 5,473,851 NYSE: No mentions found.

ExxonXOM $75.79 -0.25 0.33% 14,620,102 NYSE: Fin Times p16 "Bid to buy Exxon stations blocked" says regulators have blocked a bid by Caltex Australia, the nation's biggest oil refiner, to purchase Exxon Mobil filling stations for $278 mil on concerns the deal would reduce competition.

GE $16.07 -0.10 0.62% 63,910,284 NYSE: WSJ pB1 "Comcast, GE Set to Unwrap NBC Universal Deal" by Sam Schechner, Jeffrey McCracken, Max Colchester says Comcast and GE are set to announce today a deal that would give Comcast control of GE's NBC Universal turning the cable tv giant into one of the world's largest suppliers of TV shows and movies. It comes after Paris based Vivendi agreed this weekend to sell its 20% stake in NBC Universal to GE for $5.8 bil.

WSJ pB1 "Deal Caps Comcast's Dogged Pursuit" by Sam Schechner, Jeffrey McCracken says the ceo of Comcast Brian Robert finally agreed to its deal with GE taking over NBC Universal because the deal did not involve a huge cash outlay and would be advantageous even if the broadcast TV biz declined.

Similar story at NYT pB1 "A Monogamous Courtship" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Tim Arango that describe how in secret meetings, Comcast wooed GE and won NBC.

Fin Times p9 "Cable guys gain little from merging" by John Gapper says the purchase of NBC Universal by Comcast is the culmination of a complex piece of asset shuffling involving Comcast, GE and Vivendi. Comcast's rationale for combining media assets with cable distribution is as convuluted as the structure of the deal. NBC's cable networks may offset a decline in basic cable subscriptions; or Comcast's control of a studio will let it bring films faster to cable; or it will retrieve the cash it pays to cable networks. Who knows? The write says that the fact that Comcast has the money to do the deal does not justify the gamble.

Fin Times p16 "Comcast's NBCU move is no joke" by Kenneth Li, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson says the deal wold create a rival to Disney. Analysts have said the deal is a bold bid to unite content and distribution by fusing the US's largest cable services firm with the nation's oldest broadcast network. The deal would give Comcast a 51% stake in a jv that combines NBCU with its own roster of smaller cable networks such as E! and the Gold Channel for only about $6.5 bil upfront cash. It will create the nation's largest entertainment firm; rivalling Disney which Comcast failed to buy in '04 for $60 bil.

NYT pB4 "In NBC Interview, A failure to Note Network Ties" by Brian Stelter says GE's NBC is being criticized by not disclosing that the couple who crashed the White House party was being filmed for Bravo's "The Real Housewives of DC."

Hewlett-Packard HPQ $48.98 -0.61 1.23% 14,684,500 NYSE: WSJ pB4 "Dell to Sell PC Factory to Foxconn" by Justin Scheck says Dell said it reached a deal to sell a pc factory in Poland to Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn, a div. of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. The deal is the latest example of how Dell has abandoned its once industry leading strategy of building PCs to order in its own factories. It has been struggling in recent years and since '06, Dell has been outpaced by rivals Hewlett-Packard and Acer whose outsourced manufacturing operations have become cheaper and more efficient than Dell's.

Home Depot HD $28.33 +0.33 1.18% 17,262,487 NYSE: AJC pA22 says another Home Depot manager has pleaded guilty to helping a vendor get contracts at the nation's largest retailer. A 47 year old former senior manager of product engineering pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets at the Atlanta based firm. A sentencing hearing is set for 2/3 in front of US Dist. Judge Willis B. Hunt Jr.

Intel INTC $19.72 +0.06 0.31% 35,405,390 NASDAQ-GS: WSJ pR8 "Samm Investor, Bigger Voice" by Rob Curran gives 5 ways the Internet is giving individual stakeholders more influence in corporate governance. For example, in May, Intel became the first major firm to allow shareholders on the Web to vote and submit questions as if they were on the floor of the annual meeting. Other firms, such as WalMart, beam live video and Twitter updates from their meetings. As of late Nov, 40,000 people had watched the video stream of WalMart's June meeting, per Carol Schumacher, vp for investor relations. WalMart hasn't allowed remote participation in its annual meetings so far.

IBM $127.21 -0.73 0.57% 4,569,652 NYSE: No mentions found.

J.P.Morgan Chase JPM $41.93 -0.29 0.69% 32,205,139 NYSE: WSJ pC1 "Dow Drops 18.90 Points, Led by banks" by Peter A. McKay says bearish news about banks, a slide in oil prices, and glum signals about the US jobs outlook weighed on stocks. But gold hit another record. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was hurt in part by Bank of America's 1.5% drop after The Wall Street Journal reported that 2 ceo candidates said the firm should consider breaking itself up, although the board rejected the idea. Also weighing on financials, UBS analysts cut their 4Q earnings targets for several banks and Sanford C. Bernstein said JP Morgan Chase could face a big rev decline under a worst case scenario for derivatives legislation.

In NYT's pA1 story on BofA repaying bailout funds at the jump to pB4 there is a chart that shows the bailout funds to the 14 banks with BofA getting the most at $45 bil, JPMorgan Chase was third getting $25 bil and they said they would repay all by year's end and last was American Express which got $3.4 bil.

Johnson & Johnson JNJ $63.88 +0.37 0.58% 10,743,532 NYSE: No mentions found.

Kraft KFT $26.61 +0.11 0.42% 8,494,577 NYSE: No mentions found.

McDonald's MCD $62.49 -1.05 1.65% 10,136,837 NYSE: WSJ pC5 "Alcoa Climbs 6.6%; Walgreen Falls Short" by Geoffrey Rogow says analysts' bearish comments weighed on J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and other financials, though another round of buying in Alcoa and other materials stocks kept any broad market declines muted. Index decliners were led by Bank of America down 1.5%. McDonald's was also weak off 1.05% after Pres. and coo Ralph Alvarez said he will retire at the end of the year for health reasons. He was the likely successor to CEO Jim Skinner. On the positive side, Alcoa rose 6.6% pushing up the S&P 500 as well. GameStop dropped 8.3% after WalMart announced a holiday promotion on video games and console systems that could help it steal market share.

Merck MRK $36.8 -0.08 0.22% 11,967,664 NYSE: No mentions found.

Microsoft MSFT $29.78 -0.23 0.77% 36,018,425 NASDAQ-GS: AJC pA13 says Microsoft says it's not to blame for a problem that is causing some Windows computers that has Windows 7 software as well as Windows XP and Vista to boot up to a blank black screen. MSFT thinks it may be some "malicious" programs on the Internet causing the black screens.

Inv. Bus. Daily pA4 "Companies Expected To Increase Spending In Computer Security" by Donna Howell says security vendors could benefit as firms loosen tech budgets tightened in the recession. Says of PCs and the new Microsoft Windows 7 PC operating systems are driving security demand as are the trends toward virtualization, mobile computing and cloud technologies.

WSJ pB4 "Nokia's Smart Phones Will Stick to Symbian" by Gustav Sandstrom says Nokia said Symbian would remain the key software platform on is smart phones, as the world's largest handset maker foecast a 10% rise in global handset volumes next year following a peirod of sharp contraction. The rivalry between different software platforms has become increasingly fierce, as handset makers compete for their share of the smart phone biz, the one area os the mobile phone market that has continued to grow during the recession. Nokia has focused on apps such as navigation, its Come With Music phones, and its Ovi online portal. But it has faced competition from Apple's iPHone and App Store, touch screen phones from S. Korea's Samsung and a growing number of devices based on Google's Android operating system. Other rival offerings include Microsoft's Windows Mobile and proprietary systems from Research in Motion and Palm.

Similar story at Fin Times p16 Nokia bullish on smartphone development" by Andrew Parker.

Pfizer PFE $18.74 -0.11 0.58% 46,981,841 NYSE: No mentions found.

Procter & Gamble PG $63.19 +0.28 0.45% 8,556,311 NYSE: Fin Times p14 "Wood sponsors take the long view" by Roger Blitz says many of Tiger Woods's sponsors made clear they intended to stick with the world number one golfer in the wake of his public apology to his family yesterday for transgressions in his private life. Gillette, the Procter & Gamble personal care biz, said it did not comment ont he private lives of its "ambassadors" but said they are human and make mistakes. AT&T declined to comment as did other sponsors such as Nike, Gatorade and NetJets.

3M MMM $78.41 -0.22 0.28% 2,951,546 NYSE: No mentions found.

Travelers TRV $52.65 +0.05 0.1% 3,392,408 NYSE: No mentions found.

United Technologies UTX $68.15 +0.15 0.22% 2,636,779 NYSE: No mentions found.

Verizon VZ $32.65 +0.31 0.96% 16,287,438 NYSE: No mentions found.

WalMart WMT $54.57 -0.18 0.33% 9,863,620 NYSE: WSJ pB1 "Wal-Mart Launches Videogame War" by Ann Zimmerman, Yukari Iwatani Kane, Inv. Bus. Daily pA2, AJC pA22 say GameStop's shares fell after an announcement from WalMart that it is offering deals on popular video games and the Ninendo Wii leading up to the holidays. It is also giving anyone who buys the Wii game console through 12/12 a $50 gift ard. Tis could undercut GameStops holiday sales or drive it to lower prices too.

WSJ pB4 "Online Stores Get Cyber Mon. Sales Boost" by Geoffrey A. Fowler says E-commerce sales grew 5% on Cyber mon, the first Mon. after Thanksgiving, compared with sales on Cyber Mon. last year, and the day's sales matched the single day record for online shopping. Sales online Mon were $887 mil due partly to havy Black Friday promotions by multi-channel retailers such as WalMart and Sears.

WSJ pC5 "Alcoa Climbs 6.6%; Walgreen Falls Short" by Geoffrey Rogow says analysts' bearish comments weighed on J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and other financials, though another round of buying in Alcoa and other materials stocks kept any broad market declines muted. Index decliners were led by Bank of America down 1.5%. McDonald's was also weak off 1.05% after Pres. and coo Ralph Alvarez said he will retire at the end of the year for health reasons. He was the likely successor to CEO Jim Skinner. On the positive side, Alcoa rose 6.6% pushing up the S&P 500 as well. GameStop dropped 8.3% after WalMart announced a holiday promotion on video games and console systems that could help it steal market share.

WSJ pR8 "Small Investor, Bigger Voice" by Rob Curran gives 5 ways the Internet is giving individual stakeholders more influence in corporate governance. For example, in May, Intel became the first major firm to allow shareholders on the Web to vote and submit questions as if they were on the floor of the annual meeting. Other firms, such as WalMart, beam live video and Twitter updates from their meetings. As of late Nov, 40,000 people had watched the video stream of WalMart's June meeting, per Carol Schumacher, vp for investor relations. WalMart hasn't allowed remote participation in its annual meetings so far.
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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
11/30/09 followed by number of shares outstanding rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:

1. Exxon Mobil XOM $360 [5]
2. Microsoft MSFT 260 [9]
3. WalMart WMT 211 [4]
4. Chevron CVX 191 [2.5]
5. Procter & Gamble PG 183 [3]
6. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 174 [3]
7. GE 170 [10.5]
8. IBM 165 [1.5]
9. JPMorgan Chase 163 [4]
10. AT&T 159 [6]
11. Pfizer PFE 147 [8]
12. Cisco CSCO 134 [6]
13. BAC 134 [6.5]
14. Coke KO 132 [2]
15. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 116 [2]
16. Intel INTC 107 [5.5]
17. McDonald's MCD 106 [1]
18. Verizon VZ 90 [3]
19. Merck MRK 77 [2]
20. United Technologies UTX 63 [1]
21. Disney DIS 56 [2]
22. 3M MMM 54 [.5]
23. American Express AXP 49 [1]
24. Home Depot 47 [2]
25. Kraft KFT 39 [1.5]
26. Boeing BA 38 [1]
27. Caterpillar CAT 36 [.5]
28. DuPont DD 31 [1]
29. Travelers 28 [.5]
30. Alcoa AA 12 [1]

Here are the latest SEC filings as of 11/30/09 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 re:the acquisition of Centennial Communications Corp. a regional provider of wireless and wired communications services for $945 million in cash.

Alcoa AA: 11/20/09 8K re: that it will temporarily idle production at its two aluminum smelters in Fusina and Portovesme, Italy while appealing a European Commission decision that Italy’s extension of the existing electricity tariff after 2005 did not comply with European Union state aid rules and that a portion of the benefit received by Alcoa must be refunded. The curtailments in Italy will bring Alcoa’s total global smelting system curtailments to approximately 24 percent. Alcoa expects to take a 4Q '09 charge of between $300 million and $500 million, pre-tax, including the temporary curtailment and recovery actions.

American Express AXP: 11/18/09 8K re: acquisition of Revolution Money, a Revolution LLC company which was launched by AOL Co-founder Steve Case's Revolution LLC in '07 & provides secure payments through an internet based platform. No names or account numbers appear on Revolution cards and transactions are authorized by using a PIN number. Their online person-to-person payment accounts are FDIC insured and suited for social and instant messaging networks.

Bank of Am BAC: 11/27/09 8K re: the Board approved amendments to the 2009 compensation arrangements for Joe L. Price, Chief Financial Officer, & Barbara J. Desoer, President, Bank of America Mortgage, Home Equity and Insurance Services.

Boeing BA: 11/20/09 8K re: Boeing issued $700,000,000 of 1.875% Senior Notes due 2012 and $500,000,000 of 3.750% Senior Notes due 2016.

Caterpiller CAT: 11/19/09 8K disclosing supplemental information concerning deliveries to users for its Machinery and Engines lines of business.

Chevron CVX: 11/5/09 10Q

Cisco CSCO: 11/24/09 8K re: Mark Chandler, Senior Vice President, Legal Services, General Counsel & Secretary of Cisco Systems adopted a pre-arranged stock trading plan to exercise Cisco stock options originally granted in 2001 and set to expire in February 2010 and sell the acquired shares of Cisco stock for up to 80,000 shares of Cisco stock.

Coke KO: 10/29/09 10QA

Disney DIS: 11/13/09 8K re: effective January 1, 2010, Thomas O. Staggs, currently Sr. Exec. VP & CFO, will become Chairman, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, & James A. Rasulo, currently Chairman, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, will become Sr. Exec. VP & CFO.

11/19/09 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 1/15 & $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: 11/23/09 8K re: financial results for its 4Q ended 10/31/09, with net rev of $30.8 billion, down 8% from a year earlier.

Home Depot HD: 11/17/09 8K re: 3Q of fiscal 2009 net earnings of $689 million, or $0.41 per diluted share, compared with net earnings of $756 million, or $0.45 per diluted share, in the same period in fiscal 2008.

Intel INTC: 11/16/09 8K re: board of directors approved a 12.5 percent increase in the quarterly cash dividend to 15.75 cents per share (63 cents per share on an annual basis), beginning with the dividend that will be declared in the first quarter of 2010.

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: 11/20/09 re: Cazenove Group Limited (Cazenove) and J.P. Morgan have agreed a transaction under which their joint venture, J.P. Morgan Cazenove, will become a wholly owned part of J.P. Morgan.

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

Kraft KFT: 11/9/09 8K re: pursuant to Rule 2.5 of the U.K. City Code on Takeovers and Mergers Kraft disclosed its intention to make an offer to acquire each outstanding ordinary share of Cadbury plc.

11/9/09 8K re: an acquisition and refinancing bridge credit agreement for a 364-day senior unsecured term loan facility with the lenders led by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., as joint bookrunners, and Citibank, N.A. and Deutsche Bank AG Cayman Islands Branch, as co-administrative agents for loans up to £5.5 billion with a maturity date of 364 days.

McDonalds MCD: 11/12/09 8K re: CEO Jim Skinner outlined MCD’s priorities to continue to drive growth in sales, market share and returns through a strategic focus on its customers and restaurants under the successful Plan to Win. This includes plans to open about 1,000 new restaurants and reimage 2,300 existing locations worldwide in 2010.

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: 11/24/09 8K re: Chris Liddell's departure as CFO to be replaced by Peter Klein.

Pfizer PFE: 11/5/09 10Q

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

3M MMM: 11/24/09 8K re: an amendment to its VIP Excess Plan that offers eligible highly compensated employees with the opportunity to defer the receipt of a portion of their current cash compensation on a tax-favored basis.

Travelers TRV: 11/10/09 8K re: the resignation of Robert I. Lipp from the Board.

United Technologies UTX: 11/17/09 8K re: its purchase of the GE Security business from GE for $1.82 billion. The closing is pending regulatory approvals. GE Security, part of GE Technology Infrastructure, supplies security and life safety technologies through a broad product portfolio for commercial and residential applications that include fire detection and life safety systems, intrusion alarms, and video surveillance and access control systems. Headquartered in Bradenton, Fla., the business has eight manufacturing facilities and approximately 4,700 employees in 26 countries.

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: 11/12/09 8K re: diluted earnings per share from continuing operations for 3Q of fiscal year 2010 of $0.84, exceeding WMT’s guidance of $0.78 to $0.82. Walmart earned $0.77 per share from continuing operations in the third quarter last year.