Tuesday, April 20, 2010

4/20/10 Tues. pm Dow Closes 11,117.06 up 25.01 or 0.23%

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Post No. 392. The following is brought to you by Intellivest Securities Research, Inc. Towards the end of this Blog is a list of the Dow 30 current CEOs, a ranking of the Dow 30 components by market capitalization as of 4/1/10 and an update of the Dow 30 component's most recent SEC filings as of 4/1/10.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Tuesday at 11,117.06 up 25.01 or 0.23% from Monday's close of 11,092.05. Of the 30 Dow Companies: 21 gained and 9 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise and percentage-wise was 3M MMM $85.27 +1.37 1.63% 5,685,585 NYSE. The biggest decliner dollar-wise and percentage-wise was IBM $129.69 -2.54 1.92% 15,064,500 NYSE.

As of the open of the market Tuesday, the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C4 of today's Wall St. Journal is 0.132319125 unchanged, the trailing P/E ratio is 17.24 up from Monday's 17.12 (year ago it was 26.26) the P/E estimate is 14.00 unchanged from Monday's 14.00 (year ago it was 22.34) and the current dividend yield is 2.46 down from Monday's 2.48 (it was 3.94 a year ago). The Dow's all-time high was 14,164.53 on Oct. 9, 2007.

Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,471 up 3.31 from Monday's closing numerator of 1,467.69. This is the sum of all 30 closing prices. A short cut to the Dow numerator is to multiply the closing Dow by the Divisor. Now, if you divide the Dow numerator increase of 3.31 for Tuesday by the divisor you get the increase in Tuesday's Dow close of 25.01. A $1 change in the price of any DJIA stock = a 7.56 change in the average.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $49.03 up 0.11 from Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing price of $48.92. The median closing price of Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was 44.71 down 0.86 from Monday's median closing price of $45.57. The lowest volume was Travelers TRV $53.17 -0.02 0.04% 4,206,514 NYSE and the highest volume again was Bank of America BAC $18.61 +0.22 1.2% 196,904,750 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 made $330 ($147,090- $146,760 - $).

Market Watch 4/20/10 4:08 p.m. by Rex Crum says leading U.S. stock indexes closed with gains Tuesday ahead of a slate of earnings reports from tech giants such as Apple Inc (AAPL 245.70, +1.11, +0.45%) and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO 17.88, -0.50, -2.72%) . The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDU 11,117, +25.16, +0.23%) climbed 25 points to end the day at 11,117, while the Nasdaq Composite Index /omp (COMP 2,500, +20.20, +0.81%) rose 20 points to finish at 2,500. The S&P 500 Index (SPX 1,207, +9.65, +0.81%) tacked on almost 10 points to end the day's trading at 1,207

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


At&T T $26.66 +0.28 1.06% 33,903,455 NYSE
Alcoa AA $13.75 +0.03 0.22% 23,576,870 NYSE
American Express AXP $46.2 0+.44 0.96% 7,839,613 NYSE
Bank of America BAC $18.61 +0.22 1.2% 196,904,750 NYSE
BA $71.41 +0.45 0.63% 4,690,239 NYSE
Boeing CAT $67.5 +0.51 0.76% 7,648,740 NYSE
Chevron CVX $82.05 +0.73 0.9% 11,319,522 NYSE
Coca Cola KO $54.47 -0.85 1.54% 15,790,974 NYSE
Disney DIS $36.54 +0.37 1.02% 16,115,961 NYSE
DuPont DD $39.16 -0.21 0.53% 7,324,349 NYSE
ExxonMobil XOM $68.97 +0.74 1.08% 22,615,150 NYSE
GE $19 0.06 +0.32% 56,676,248 NYSE
Hewlett-Packard HPQ $53.56 -0.08 0.15% 12,066,566 NYSE
Home Depot HD $35.18 +0.01 0.03% 14,511,803 NYSE
Intel INTC $24.13 +0.13 0.54% 64,265,518 NASDAQ-GS
IBM $129.69 -2.54 1.92% 15,064,500 NYSE
J.P.Morgan Chase JPM $45.88 +0.49 1.08% 38,531,369 NYSE
Johnson & Johnson JNJ $65.99 -0.04 0.06% 11,603,809 NYSE
Kraft KFT $30.45 -0.34 1.1% 9,274,554 NYSE
McDonalds MCD $70.34 +0.42 0.6% 7,234,846 NYSE
Merck MRK $36.06 +0.16 0.45% 9,939,343 NYSE
Microsoft MSFT $31.36 +0.321 1.03% 50,357,218 NASDAQ-GS
Pfizer PFE $16.76 -0.03 0.18% 55,806,898 NYSE
Procter & Gamble PG $63.19 -0.03 0.05% 10,701,049 NYSE
3M MMM $85.27 +1.37 1.63% 5,685,585 NYSE
Travelers TRV $53.17 -0.02 0.04% 4,206,514 NYSE
United Technologies UTX $74.2 +0.44 0.6% 4,922,533 NYSE
Verizon VZ $29.76 +0.03 0.1% 14,717,468 DualListed
WalMart WMT $54.52 +0.13 0.24% 8,958,756 NYSE




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The following are excerpts from Tues. morning's Blog.

A read of Tuesday's Wall St. Journal, Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, New York Times, USA Today & Atlanta Journal & Constitution 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 stock prices and related data.

Dow:The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Monday at 11,092.05 up 73.39 or 0.67% from Friday's close of 11,018.66. Of the 30 Dow Companies: 24 gained and 6 declined. For the year the Dow is up 6.67%. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was IBM $132.23 1.60 +1.22% 10,365,319 and percentage-wise was DuPont DD $39.37 +0.71 1.84% 7,922,676 NYSE. The biggest decliner dollar-wise and percentage-wise was Boeing BA $70.96 -0.17 0.24% 4,191,997 NYSE.

WSJ pC1 "Dow Up 73.39 With Banks Back in Favor" by Peter McKay says fin'l stocks are in the market's driver seat for now. Citigroup soared 7% after reporting is strongest results in nearly 3 years. That came on the heels of similar reports last week from JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America.

WSJ pC5 "Citigroup Jumps 7%, But UAL Drops 5.1%" by Donna Yesalavich says stocks edged higher, recovering some of the Fri decline as strong earnngs from Citigroup and analysts' positive comments on DuPont and McDonalds encouraged investors. Alcoa kept the Dow's gains in check as it fell 1.4.

Fin Times p24 "Citigroup's upbeat results help limit Goldman fall out" by Masa Serdarevic says strong results from Citigroup helped US stocks higher yesterday.

Inv. Bus. Daily pA1 "Stocks Stage Positive Reversal" by Paul Whitfield says Monday's action was mostly up in lower vol. The current outlook is the market is in a confirmed uptrend.

NYT pB8 "As Banking Shares Rise, Most Indexes Close Up" by Javier Hernandez says worries about the effect of gov. efforts to strengthen oversighof banks faded somewhat on Wall St. to help send indexes up.

USA Today p4b "Investors gain confidence, boost stocks" by Bloomberg says stocks erased losses Mon, gaining for the 7th session in the past 8, as investors continued to monitor the fraud charges levied at Goldman Sachs.

Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,467.69 up 9.71 from Friday's closing numerator of 1,457.98. This is the sum of all 30 closing prices. A short cut to the Dow numerator is to multiply the closing Dow by the Divisor. Now, if you divide the Dow numerator increase of 9.71 for Monday by the divisor you get the increase in Monday's Dow close of 73.39. A $1 change in the price of any DJIA stock = a 7.56 change in the average.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $48.92 up 0.32 from Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing price of $48.60. The median closing price of Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was 45.57 up 0.28 from Friday's median closing price of $45.29. The lowest volume was 3M MMM $83.9 +0.14 0.17% 3,544,174 NYSE and the highest volume again was Bank of America BAC $18.39 +0.02 0.11% 358,156,182 NYSE.

If Monday 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 made $960 ( $146,760 - $145,800).

Market Watch 4/19/10 5:01 p.m. by Kate Gibson says U.S. stocks closed Monday with gains for several benchmark indexes, with Citigroup Inc. results and a turn higher in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. shares supporting the heavily-weighted financial sector.
After wavering between gains and losses for much of the session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDU 11,092, +73.24, +0.67%) closed up 73.39 points, or 0.7%, to 11,092.05, with 24 of its 30 components rising. The S&P 500 Index (SPX 1,198, +5.39, +0.45%) ended 5.39 points, or 0.45%, higher at 1,197.52, with all sectors higher. The Wilshire 5000 also advanced, while the Nasdaq Composite Index (COMP 2,480, -1.15, -0.05%) came off the day's lows but notched a minor drop. For the S&P 500, a rebound in financial stocks and focus on earnings offset an earlier bout of worries over the impact of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Friday charges against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS 164.26, +0.94, +0.58%) for fraud related to mortgage-debt trades. Citigroup C 4.91, +0.03, +0.62%) shares rose 7% after the bank reported profit more than doubled from the year-ago quarter as costs for bad loans declined. Financial stocks rose 1.1% on the S&P 500, matching gains in the telecommunications sector, to lead the index's 10 industry groups higher. Financial stocks represent the second-most heavily weighted sector for the index, after technology. Goldman (GS 164.26, +0.94, +0.58%) shares rose 1.6%, turning higher late in the trading day after Bloomberg News reported the Securities and Exchange Commission had voted along party lines in suing the company. Shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. fall 1% Monday after dropping 13% in the previous trading session. The SEC charged Goldman with securities fraud on Friday, and over the weekend U.K.'s Gordon Brown said he was shocked by the "moral bankruptcy" of the investment bank.
The Nasdaq Composite Index (COMP 2,480, -1.15, -0.05%) declined 1.15 points, or 0.1%, to 2,480.11, with shares of smartphone maker Palm Inc. (PALM 4.92, -0.67, -11.99%) among those weighing on the market. Laboratory Corp. of America (LH 79.32, -0.01, -0.01%) and Coventry Health Care Inc. (CVH 24.35, -.00, -0.01%) were among health-care stocks rising with gains of 3.1% and 2.7, respectively. For every 13 stocks on the rise, about 17 were in decline on the New York Stock Exchange, where 1.3 billion shares had changed hands. Besides further fall-out from the SEC case against Goldman, much of this week's investor focus will concern earnings. The first major U.S. manufacturer to report first-quarter results, Eli Lilly and Co. (LLY 36.58, -.00, -0.01%) , on Monday cut its 2010 earning outlook. Shares ended 0.1% higher.The major stock indexes had swung into positive territory after the Conference Board reported its index of leading economic indicators rose more than expected in March. Earlier, energy and material stocks fell after the nerves jangled by the SEC's move against Goldman sank commodities futures. Crude oil for June delivery lost 1.8% to $83.13 a barrel, while gold for June delivery slipped 0.1% to $1,135.8 an ounce. Shares in Goldman, a major commodities broker, had dropped 13% on Friday, their biggest fall in more than a year, after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against the bank and a vice president.
The Goldman news also offered a catalyst for investors to take profits after a nearly seven-week climb had left some looking for a reason to sell. Goldman dismissed as "unfounded" the SEC's contention that it sold securities tied to subprime mortgages without disclosing that hedge fund Paulson & Co. had helped select the underlying securities and then bet against them. The hedge-fund firm was not charged. On Capitol Hill, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., said the government's case against one of Wall Street's most powerful firms bolstered the case for bank-reform legislation. International Business Machines Corp. (IBM 129.38, -2.85, -2.16%) and Zions Bancorp (ZION 26.10, +0.67, +2.64%) were scheduled to report results after the market close. IBM shares rose 1.2%.

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


AT&T T $26.38 +0.45 1.74% 33,192,852 NYSE: No mentions found.

Alcoa AA $13.72 +0.19 1.37% 37,622,231 NYSE: WSJ pC5 under "Bd news" Alcoa is charted saying a downward trend in the metals and mining sector as metals prices slumped pushed down Alcoa 1.37%.

WSJ pC5 "Citigroup Jumps 7%, But UAL Drops 5.1%" by Donna Yesalavich says stocks edged higher, recovering some of the Fri decline as strong earnngs from Citigroup and analysts' positive comments on DuPont and McDonalds encouraged investors. Alcoa kept the Dow's gains in check as it fell 1.4.

American Express AXP $45.76 +0.66 1.46% 10,499,913 NYSE: No mentions found.

Bank of America BAC $18.39 +0.02 0.11% 358,156,182 NYSE: WSJ pC1 "Dow Up 73.39 With Banks Back in Favor" by Peter McKay says fin'l stocks are in the market's driver seat for now. Citigroup soared 7% after reporting is strongest results in nearly 3 years. That came on the heels of similar reports last week from JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America.

Boeing BA $70.96 -0.17 0.24% 4,191,997 NYSE: No mentions found.

Caterpillar CAT $66.99 +0.11 0.16% 7,963,229 NYSE: No mentions found.

Chevron CVX $81.32 +0.57 0.71% 9,306,994 NYSE: No mentions found.

Cisco CSCO $27.06 +0.08 0.3% 43,734,481 NASDAQ-GS: WSJ pB1 "Tech firms Bulk Up With Debt" by Ben Worthen says mergers and acquisitions are reshaping the tech industry with a handful of tech giants that have huge cash hoards, such as Cisco and Hewlett-Packard buying firms. Software firms such as SAP, Adobe and Salesforce.com have recently sold billions of dollars of debt following similar offerings over the past year from firms such as Microsoft which had $25 bil in cash when it took on debt for the first time in May.

Coca Cola KO $55.32 +0.35 0.64% 13,148,755 NYSE: AJC pA9 "Succession critical for coca-Cola" by Henr Unger says the fact that CEO Muhtar Kend is doing such a good job is even more reason to assure investors that a succession plan is in place.

Disney DIS $36.17 +0.34 0.95% 9,812,132 NYSE: No mentions found.

DuPont DD $39.37 +0.71 1.84% 7,922,676 NYSE: WSJ pC5 "Citigroup Jumps 7%, But UAL Drops 5.1%" by Donna Yesalavich says stocks edged higher, recovering some of the Fri decline as strong earnngs from Citigroup and analysts' positive comments on DuPont and McDonalds encouraged investors. Alcoa kept the Dow's gains in check as it fell 1.4.

ExxonMobil XOM $68.23 +0.30 0.44% 25,629,910 NYSE: No mentions found.

GE $18.94 -0.03 0.16% 77,704,255 NYSE: No mentions found.

Hewlett-Packard HPQ $53.64 -0.11 0.2% 10,680,663 NYSE: WSJ pB1 "Tech firms Bulk Up With Debt" by Ben Worthen says mergers and acquisitions are reshaping the tech industry with a handful of tech giants that have huge cash hoards, such as Cisco and Hewlett-Packard buying firms. Software firms such as SAP, Adobe and Salesforce.com have recently sold billions of dollars of debt following similar offerings over the past year from firms such as Microsoft which had $25 bil in cash when it took on debt for the first time in May.

Home Depot HD $35.17 ++0.16 0.46% 17,544,552 NYSE:

Intel INTC $24 0.08 +0.33% 71,076,374 NASDAQ-GS: Inv. Bus. Daily pA5 "Oracle, Intel and Now IBM Add to Optimism For Tech Spending" by Brian Deagon, J. Bonasia says Intel CEO Paul Otellini said the industry is nearly fully recovered.

IBM $132.23 1.60 +1.22% 10,365,319 NYSE: Investor's Bus. Daily pA1 "Biz Spending For Tech Products Finally on Rebound, IBM Q1 Beats Expectations" by BrianDeagon, J. Bonasia, WSJ pB1 "IBM's net Gets Life From TechcSpending by Spencer Ante, NYT pB2 "Global Strategy Stabilized IBM During Downturn" by Steve Lohr, USA Today p1B, AJC pA10 "IBM's earnings indicate tech spending is up" says IBM's 1Atr profit jumped 13% and it said the recovery in corp. tech spending is improving. IBM earned $2.6 bil or $1.97 in 1Qtr compared to $2.3 bil or $1.70 last period.

J.P.Morgan Chase JPM $45.39 -0.16 0.35% 71,957,980 NYSE: WSJ pC1 "Dow Up 73.39 With Banks Back in Favor" by Peter McKay says fin'l stocks are in the market's driver seat for now. Citigroup soared 7% after reporting is strongest results in nearly 3 years. That came on the heels of similar reports last week from JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America.

Johnson & Johnson JNJ $66.03 +1.01 1.55% 14,254,725 NYSE: No mentions found.

Kraft KFT $30.79 +0.13 0.42% 10,338,156 NYSE: No mentions found.

McDonald's MCD $69.92 +0.89 1.29% 7,100,901 NYSE: Fin Times p15 "Mcdonald's continues to rely on European restaurants for growth" by Greg Farrell says Mcdonalds is expected to show continued dependence for growth on Europe when it reports 1Qtr results Wed.

WSJ pC5 "Citigroup Jumps 7%, But UAL Drops 5.1%" by Donna Yesalavich says stocks edged higher, recovering some of the Fri decline as strong earnngs from Citigroup and analysts' positive comments on DuPont and McDonalds encouraged investors. Alcoa kept the Dow's gains in check as it fell 1.4.

Merck MRK $35.9 +0.19 0.53% 12,472,523 NYSE: WSJ pB1 "Drug Prices Jumped last Year, Ahead of Fed Overhaul" by Anna Mathews says some drugs saw double digit increases in 1Qtr including 12.1% on Zetia, a cholesterol drug from Merck.

Microsoft MSFT $31.03 +0.36 1.17% 64,252,912 NASDAQ-GS: WSJ pB1 "Tech firms Bulk Up With Debt" by Ben Worthen says mergers and acquisitions are reshaping the tech industry with a handful of tech giants that have huge cash hoards, such as Cisco and Hewlett-Packard buying firms. Software firms such as SAP, Adobe and Salesforce.com have recently sold billions of dollars of debt following similar offerings over the past year from firms such as Microsoft which had $25 bil in cash when it took on debt for the first time in May.

Pfizer PFE $16.79 -0.01 0.06% 65,553,469 NYSE: No mentions found.

Procter & Gamble PG $63.22 +0.37 0.59% 9,456,252 NYSE: No mentions found.

3M MMM $83.9 +0.14 0.17% 3,544,174 NYSE: No mentions found.

Travelers TRV $53.19 +1.05 2.01% 4,859,029 NYSE: No mentions found.

United Technologies UTX $73.76 +0.07 0.09% 5,108,528 NYSE: No mentions found.

Verizon VZ $29.73 +0.15 0.51% 17,701,987 Dual Listed: No mentions found.

WalMart WMT $54.39 +0.28 0.52% 11,269,885 NYSE: WSJ pB4 "CEO's Pay Drops as Value of Stocks Shrinks" by Mary Ellen Llloyd says WMT's CEO Michael T.Duke, received comp in '10 valued at $19.2 mil, down 32% from a year earlier.

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Here are the current CEOs of the Dow 30 Companies:

AT&T T Randall L. Stephenson
Alcoa AA Klaus Kleinfeld
American Express AXP Kenneth I. Chenault
Bank of America BAC Brian T. Moynihan
Boeing BA W. James McNerney, Jr.
Caterpillar CAT Douglas Oberhelman
Chevron CVX John Watson
Cisco CSCO John Chambers
Coca Cola KO Muhtar Kent
Disney DIS Robert Iger
DuPont DD Ellen Kullman
ExxonMobil XOM Rex W. Tillerson
GE Jeffrey R. Immelt
Hewlett-Packard HPQ Mark Hurd
Home Depot HD Frank Blake
Intel INTC Paul S. Otellini
IBM Samuel J. Palmisano
JPMorgan Chase JPM Jamie Dimon
Johnson & Johnson JNJ William C. Weldon
Kraft KFT Irene Rosenfeld
McDonald's MCD Jim Skinner
Merck MRK Robert Clark
Microsoft MSFT Steve Ballmer
Pfizer PFE Jeffrey Kindler
Procter & Gamble PG Bob McDonald
3M MMM George W. Buckley
Travelers TRV Jay S. Fishman
United Technologies UTX Louis Chenevert
Verizon VZ Ivan Seidenberg
Wal-Mart WMT Mike Duke

Here are the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 ranked in order of market capitalization rounded to the nearest billion as of 4/1/10 followed by number of shares outstanding rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:

1. Exxon Mobil XOM $317 [5]
2. Microsoft MSFT 257 [9]
3. WalMart WMT 212 [4]
4. GE 200 [10.5]
5. Procter & Gamble PG 184 [3]
6. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 180 [3]
7. BAC 179 [10]
8. JPMorgan Chase 178 [4]
9. IBM 167 [1]
10. AT&T 153 [6]
11. Chevron CVX 152 [2]
12. Cisco CSCO 149 [6]
13. Pfizer PFE 138 [8]
14. Coke KO 127 [2]
15. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 125 [2]
16. Intel INTC 123 [5.5]
17. Merck MRK 116 [3]
18. Verizon VZ 88 [3]
19. McDonald's MCD 72 [1]
20. United Technologies UTX 69 [1]
21. Disney DIS 67 [2]
22. 3M MMM 59 [.5]
23. Home Depot 55 [2]
24. Boeing BA 55 [1]
25. American Express AXP 49 [1]
26. Kraft KFT 45 [1.5]
27. Caterpillar CAT 39 [.5]
28. DuPont DD 34 [1]
29. Travelers 27 [.5]
30. Alcoa AA 15 [1]

Here are the latest SEC filings as of 4/1/10 market open other than ownership filings, registration of shares for employee benefit plans, free writing prospectuses 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: 3/26/10 8K re: its intent to take a non-cash charge of approximately $1 billion in the first quarter of 2010 to reflect the impact of the health care reform legislation.

Alcoa AA: 3/2/10 Add'l def. proxy materials

American Express AXP: 3/18/10 Add'l def. proxy materials

Bank of Am BAC: 3/17/10 Add'l def. proxy materials

Boeing BA: 3/31/10 8K re: charge off re: income tax charge of approximately $150 million as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as modified by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act.

Caterpiller CAT: 3/24/10 8K re: charge off as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) signed into law on March 23, 2010

Chevron CVX: 3/31/10 Add'l def. proxy soliciting material

Cisco CSCO: 2/17/10 10Q Quarterly Report

Coke KO: 3/22/10 8K re: transactions related to CCE transaction.

Disney DIS: 3/16/10 8K re: amendment to stock option plan & by-laws

DuPont DD: 3/19/10 Def. add'l proxy materials

ExxonMobil XOM: 3/29/10 8K re: its 2009 Financial and Operating Review

GE: 3/25/10 8K re: credit agreement with lenders led by JPMorgan Chase re: the transaction wherein GE and Comcast will form a joint venture which will consist of the NBCU businesses and Comcast’s cable networks.

Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 3/23/10 8K re: amendment of its Stock Incentive Plan

Home Depot HD: 4/7/10 Proxy Statement

3/25/10 10K Annual Report

Intel INTC: 3/22/10 8K re: John Thornton will not stand for reelection at the Company’s Annual Stockholders’ Meeting to be held on May 19, 2010

IBM: 3/25/10 Add'l def. proxy soliciting materials

JPMorganChase JPM: 3/31/10 Def. add'l proxy materials

Kraft KFT: 3/30/10 Definitive Add'l Proxy material

McDonalds MCD: 3/9/10 8K re: Press release "McDonald’s Global Comparable Sales Increased 4.8% in February"

Merck MRK: 3/11/10 8K re: amendment to the Call Option Agreement among Merck, Merck Sharp & Dohme and sanofi-aventis re: the option granted by Merck to sanofi-aventis to acquire 50% of Merck’s animal health business.

Microsoft MSFT: 1/28/10 10Q.

Pfizer PFE: 3/16/10 Add'l Proxy Materials

Procter & Gamble PG: 2/18/10 8K re: FD disclosures re: guidance given at an analyst conference

3M MMM: 3/26//10 8K re: one-time charge it expects to take in the first quarter of 2010 as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by the President on March 23, 2010.

Travelers TRV: 3/17/10 Add'l Proxy Materials

United Technologies UTX: 3/24/10 Add'l proxy solicitation materials

2/26/10 Def. Proxy Statement

Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 3/30/10 Proxy Statement

WalMart WMT: 3/30/10 10K Annual Report