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Post No. 550. The following is brought to you by Intellivest Securities Research, Inc. Toward 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 7/25/10 and an update of the Dow 30 component's SEC filings as of 7/25/10.

A read of 7/26/10 Monday's issue of Barron's, Sunday & Sat's New York Times & Atlanta Journal Constitution, Saturday's issues of Wall Street Journal & Fin Times & July 23-29 issue of 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 stock prices and related data.

Dow:The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 10,424.62 up 102.32 or 0.99% from Thursday's close of 10,322.2. For the week the Dow is up 326.72 or 3.2% from last Friday's close of 10,097.9. For the year the Dow is down 0.03%. Of the 30 Dow Companies: 5 gained and 25 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was American Express AXP $44.76 +1.57 3.64% 14,813,909 and percentage-wise was Verizon VZ $28.02 +1.02 3.78% 46,768,977 Dual Listed. The biggest decliner dollar-wise and percentage-wise was McDonalds MCD $69.9 -1.50 2.1% 11,808,985 NYSE.

WSJ pB1 "DJIA rises 3.2% on the week" by Jonathan Cheng says stocks finished the week on a high note, soaring for a 2nd consecutive day as investors refocused on strong corp. earnings after European banks largely passed their stress tests with flying colors. All of the 3 major market indexes registered strong gains for a week that included 2Q earnings from a slew of big name firms. The latest boost came on Fri, when GE raised its quarterly dividend by 20%. Verizon Comm. and American Express led the Dow on better than expected earnings, gaining 3.8% & 3.7% respectively. McDonald's fell 2.1% despite posting an earnings gain as it said it wasn't yet seeing better economic times.

WSJ pB2 "Verizon, GE lead stock surge" by Donna Yesalavich says stocks jumped as investors looked past ther esults of european bank stress tests to focus on better than expected earnings from Verizon Communications & American express as well as a dividend boost from GE.

Fin Times p14 Indices falt despie For'ds stout first half performance" by Hannah Kuchler says US stocks were flat Fri as investors digested the results of stress tests on European banks.

NYT pB7 "Strong earnings & Europe's bank news lift stocks" by Susana Kim says stocks climbed Fri as firms continued to report good quarterly earnings and the results of stress tests of European banks did not reveal any negative surprises.

Atlanta Business Chronicle p29A "Do your own research before investing" by Dan Kolber says many research tips are available at www.DowJonesMonitor.com, this Blog.

As of the close of the market Friday, the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page B4 of today's Wall St. Journal is 0.132129493, the trailing P/E ratio is 14.51 up from Friday's 14.44 (year ago it was 13.98) the P/E estimate is 12.59 up from Friday's 12.49 (year ago it was 14.34) and the current dividend yield is 2.67 down from Friday's 2.75 (it was 3.16 a year ago). The Dow's all-time high was 14,164.53 on Oct. 9, 2007. The 12 year low close for the Dow was on March 9, 2009 when it fell to 6,547.05.

Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,377.40 up 13.72 from Thursday's closing numerator of 1363.88. 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 201.77 for Friday by the divisor (0.132129493) you get the increase in Friday's Dow of . 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 Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $45.91 up 0.45 from Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average average closing price of $45.46. The median closing price of Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $42.29 up $1.02 from Thursday's median price of $41.27. The lowest volume was 3M MMM $86.17 +1.42 1.68% 4,489,569 NYSE and the highest volume again was Bank of America BAC $13.74 +0.08 0.59% 129,057,690 NYSE.

If Friday 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 $1,360 ($137,740 - $136,380).

MarketWatch 7/23/10 Fri. 4:17 pm by Kate Gibson says U.S. stocks on Friday finished with weekly gains after a dividend hike by General Electric Co. (GE 15.72, +0.01, +0.06%) and robust corporate earnings placed the Dow within reach of erasing 2010 losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA 10,425, +102.32, +0.99%) rose 102.32 points, or 1%, to 10,424.62, less than four points shy of where it stood when the year began. Up 3.6% from the week-ago close, the S&P 500 (SPX 1,103, +8.99, +0.82%) gained 8.99 points, or 0.8%, to 1,102.66, its first finish above 1,100 since June 18. The Nasdaq Composite (COMP 2,269, +23.58, +1.05%) added 23.58 points, or 1.1%, to 2,269.47, a weekly rise of 4.2%

AT&T T $25.539 +0.029 0.11% 31,367,819 NYSE: Fin times p10 "Verizon swings to loss after charges due to jobs cut" by Alan Rappeport, WSJ pb6 "Droid phones help VZ outrun AT&T" by Roger Cheng, NYT pB2 "Verizon retains its lead in wireless in latest quarter" by Jenna Wortham, say Verizon's wireless arm added 665,000 contract customers vs. AT&T which had 496,000 customers in the quarter despite the launch of the iPhone 4 at the end of the period.

Alcoa AA $11.05 +0.23 2.13% 24,956,985 NYSE: No mentions found.

American Express AXP $44.76 +1.57 3.64% 14,813,909 NYSE: WSJ pB1 "DJIA rises 3.2% on the week" by Jonathan Cheng says stocks finished the week on a high note, soaring for a 2nd consecutive day as investors refocused on strong corp. earnings after European banks largely passed their stress tests with flying colors. All of the 3 major market indexes registered strong gains for a week that included 2Q earnings from a slew of big name firms. The latest boost came on Fri, when GE raised its quarterly dividend by 20%. Verizon Comm. and American Express led the Dow on better than expected earnings, gaining 3.8% & 3.7% respectively. McDonald's fell 2.1% despite posting an earnings gain as it said it wasn't yet seeing better economic times.

WSJ pB1 "Wall St. exhales after sidestepping pay czar's wrath" by Aaron Lucchetti says US pay czar Kenneth R. Feinberg's 4 page public discussion of banks' pray practices concluded that 17 banks had handed out $1.6 bil in ill advised exec comp before he was assigned in '09 to oversee banks that accepted gov money during the fin'l crisis. The banks included JPMorgan, American Express and Bank of America.

Bank of America BAC $13.74 +0.08 0.59% 129,057,690 NYSE: NYT page Bus 3 "Stop payment. Now stop it again." by David Segal in a half page article exposes Bank of America's practice of charging $30 each six months for a stopped check essentially making it impossible to make one call to stop payment on a check permanently. Apparently competing banks also charge fees but Bank of America appears to be the only one to do so in perpetuity.

WSJ pB16 "Overheard" says BofA CFO Charles Noski says it will decline over draft prone debit card transactions and will no longer charge the $35 overdraft fees that his own daughter got whle at college. JPMorgan is tring to get depositors to agree to overdraft charges before the rule changes on 8/15.

WSJ pB1 "Wall St. exhales after sidestepping pay czar's wrath" by Aaron Lucchetti says US pay czar Kenneth R. Feinberg's 4 page public discussion of banks' pray practices concluded that 17 banks had handed out $1.6 bil in ill advised exec comp before he was assigned in '09 to oversee banks that accepted gov money during the fin'l crisis. The banks included JPMorgan, American Express and Bank of America.

Boeing BA $67.93 +1.33 2% 4,964,685 NYSE: Barron's pM3 "The Trader" by Kopin tan says Beoing snagged 103 new plane orders from its trek to the Farnborough Air show last week.

Fin Times p16 "Aircraft orders" says Airbus nosed ahead of Boeing with 133 firm orders and 122 commitments at the Farnborough Air Show last week.

Catepillar CAT $69.282 +1.282 1.89% 8,696,802 NYSE: No mentions found.

Chevron CVX $73.52 +0.08 0.11% 8,357,722 NYSE: Barron's p23 "Barron's '10 Report Card: Picks" says although Barron's bullish stock selections fell in the first half of '10, they still beat the market. Among the 60 picks are Chevron, Intel, Johnson & Johnson & Kraft.

Cisco CSCO $23.35 +0.08 0.34% 39,071,356 NASDAQ-GS: No mentions found.

Coca-Cola KO $54.75 +0.49 0.9% 7,571,195 NYSE: AJC pA12 "Coca-Cola lands behind PepsiCo in supplier survey" by Jeremiah McWilliams says Coke ranked 4th in a survey designed to show which food or beverage suppliers are best to work with. Operators such as fast food firms, restaurants and schools gave chicken seller Tyson the top ranking this year, followed by pepsiCo,, GM, coca-Cola and Kraft. The survey was done by Kantar Retail.

Disney DIS $34.13 +0.54 1.61% 10,687,774 NYSE: No mentions found.

DuPont DD $38.3006 +0.5706 1.51% 5,244,119 NYSE: Barron's p15 "Week Preview" says on Mon 7/26, an examiner will be named in Washington Mutual's bankruptcy to probe a key settlement in the sale of the thrift to JPMorgan Chase. On Tuesday Dupont reports 2Q results with consensus estimates at 0.93 cents a share and last year it was 0.61 - DuPont should post strong earnings as strength in auto coatings, titanium dioxide and an uptick int he safety and protection markets offsets weakness in agriculture says John McNulty of Credit Suisse, on Thurs Microsoft meets with analysts and also on Thurs Pfizer's pediatric hypertension drug is discussec by an FDA panel.

ExxonMobil XOM $59.7 +0.32 0.54% 18,311,443 NYSE: No mentions found.

GE $15.71 +0.50 3.29% 111,837,774 NYSE: Fin Times p1 "GE raises dividend in show of strength" by Jeremy Lemer, WSJ pb5 "GE lifts Dividend 20%, plans to restart stock buyback" say GE raised its dividend to 12 cents a share for the quarter upping it by 2 cents which was at the low end of analysts' expectations.

WSJ pB1 "DJIA rises 3.2% on the week" by Jonathan Cheng says stocks finished the week on a high note, soaring for a 2nd consecutive day as investors refocused on strong corp. earnings after European banks largely passed their stress tests with flying colors. All of the 3 major market indexes registered strong gains for a week that included 2Q earnings from a slew of big name firms. The latest boost came on Fri, when GE raised its quarterly dividend by 20%. Verizon Comm. and American Express led the Dow on better than expected earnings, gaining 3.8% & 3.7% respectively. McDonald's fell 2.1% despite posting an earnings gain as it said it wasn't yet seeing better economic times.

Hewlett-Packard HPQ $46.14 +0.07 0.15% 18,356,772 NYSE: WSJ pb16 "Despite Threats, Dell's valuation gap doesn't compute" by Rolfe Winkler says Dell's enterprise value of $20 bil is just 5 times free cash flow while Hewlett-Packard and IBM have cash flow multiples of 11 to 12 times. The reason that although Dell has $11.6 bil in cash it is overseas and bringing it back to the US would incur large taxes.

Home Depot HD $28.25 +0.03 0.11% 18,901,957 NYSE: Atl. Bus. Chron. p10A "Fed renames Tome chair" says Home Depot's CFO Carol B. Tome was renamed chair of the Atlanta Fed.

Intel INTC $21.69 -0.09 0.41% 61,667,761 NASDAQ-GS: Barron's p23 "Barron's '10 Report Card: Picks" says although Barron's bullish stock selections fell in the first half of '10, they still beat the market. Among the 60 picks are Chevron, Intel, Johnson & Johnson & Kraft.

IBM $128.35 +0.88 0.69% 4,774,299 NYSE: WSJ pb16 "Despite Threats, Dell's valuation gap doesn't compute" by Rolfe Winkler says Dell's enterprise value of $20 bil is just 5 times free cash flow while Hewlett-Packard and IBM have cash flow multiples of 11 to 12 times. The reason that although Dell has $11.6 bil in cash it is overseas and bringing it back to the US would incur large taxes.

JPMorgan JPM $39.83 +0.48 1.22% 27,865,593 NYSE: Barron's p15 "Week Preview" says on Mon 7/26, an examiner will be named in Washington Mutual's bankruptcy to probe a key settlement in the sale of the thrift to JPMorgan Chase. On Tuesday Dupont reports 2Q results with consensus estimates at 0.93 cents a share and last year it was 0.61 - DuPont should post strong earnings as strength in auto coatings, titanium dioxide and an uptick int he safety and protection markets offsets weakness in agriculture says John McNulty of Credit Suisse, on Thurs Microsoft meets with analysts and also on Thurs Pfizer's pediatric hypertension drug is discussec by an FDA panel.

WSJ pB1 "Wall St. exhales after sidestepping pay czar's wrath" by Aaron Lucchetti says US pay czar Kenneth R. Feinberg's 4 page public discussion of banks' pray practices concluded that 17 banks had handed out $1.6 bil in ill advised exec comp before he was assigned in '09 to oversee banks that accepted gov money during the fin'l crisis. The banks included JPMorgan, American Express and Bank of America.

WSJ pB16 "Overheard" says BofA CFO Charles Noski says it will decline over draft prone debit card transactions and will no longer charge the $35 overdraft fees that his own daughter got whle at college. JPMorgan is tring to get depositors to agree to overdraft charges before the rule changes on 8/15.

Johnson & Johnson JNJ $57.63 +0.61 1.07% 15,003,721 NYSE: Barron's p23 "Barron's '10 Report Card: Picks" says although Barron's bullish stock selections fell in the first half of '10, they still beat the market. Among the 60 picks are Chevron, Intel, Johnson & Johnson & Kraft.

Kraft KFT $29.62 +0.34 1.16% 7,185,803 NYSE: Barron's p23 "Barron's '10 Report Card: Picks" says although Barron's bullish stock selections fell in the first half of '10, they still beat the market. Among the 60 picks are Chevron, Intel, Johnson & Johnson & Kraft.

AJC pA12 "Coca-Cola lands behind PepsiCo in supplier survey" by Jeremiah McWilliams says Coke ranked 4th in a survey designed to show which food or beverage suppliers are best to work with. Operators such as fast food firms, rsetaurants and schools gave chicken seller Tyson the top ranking this year, followed by pepsiCo,, GM, coca-Cola and Kraft. The survey was done by Kantar Retail.

McDonalds MCD $69.9 -1.50 2.1% 11,808,985 NYSE: Fin Times p10 "Menu price cut strategy proves recession buster at McDonalds" by Greg Farrell, WSJ pB5 "Drinks cushion MCD's sales, but caution remains", AJC pA13 "Fancy drinks, China sales boost McDonald's" say net income climbed 12% for 2Q as customers around the globe gobbled up cheap food and MCD also got a boost from biz in China and Australia. MCD had profits fo $1.23 or $1.13 a share, up from 41.09 bil or 98 cents a year earlier. Rev was $5.95 bil up from $5.65 bil.

WSJ pB1 "DJIA rises 3.2% on the week" by Jonathan Cheng says stocks finished the week on a high note, soaring for a 2nd consecutive day as investors refocused on strong corp. earnings after European banks largely passed their stress tests with flying colors. All of the 3 major market indexes registered strong gains for a week that included 2Q earnings from a slew of big name firms. The latest boost came on Fri, when GE raised its quarterly dividend by 20%. Verizon Comm. and American Express led the Dow on better than expected earnings, gaining 3.8% & 3.7% respectively. McDonald's fell 2.1% despite posting an earnings gain as it said it wasn't yet seeing better economic times.

Merck MRK $34.87 -0.31 0.88% 14,930,962 NYSE: No mentions found.

Microsoft MSFT $25.81 -0.03 0.12% 108,012,393 NASDAQ-GS: Barron's p26 "Apple & Microsoft: Buy Them Both" by Eric J. Savitz says Microsoft is a buy as it is enjoying one of its best new product runs in years from Windows 7 to Bing and coming out later this year will be the first smartphone using the new Windows 7 OS and the debut of Kinect and Microsoft has a lot of cash even though it pays a dividend.

Sun NYT, Page Bus.3 "Even with all its profits, Microsoft has a popularity problem" by Randall Stross says Microsoft trounced Apple and Google in profits in the most recent 3 months with $4.52 bil versus Apple's $3.25 bil and Google's $1.8 bil. Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft's vp for corp. communications gives several good reasons why Microsoft's stock should be a buy.

Barron's p15 "Week Preview" says on Mon 7/26, an examiner will be named in Washington Mutual's bankruptcy to probe a key settlement in the sale of the thrift to JPMorgan Chase. On Tuesday Dupont reports 2Q results with consensus estimates at 0.93 cents a share and last year it was 0.61 - DuPont should post strong earnings as strength in auto coatings, titanium dioxide and an uptick int he safety and protection markets offsets weakness in agriculture says John McNulty of Credit Suisse, on Thurs Microsoft meets with analysts and also on Thurs Pfizer's pediatric hypertension drug is discussec by an FDA panel.

WSJ Pb3 "ex-wife get payment over Pequot case" by kara Scannell says the ex wife of a former Microsoft employee got $1 mil for proving info in an insider trading cases vs. a former hedge fund operator.

Pfizer PFE $14.58 -0.23 1.55% 52,941,079 NYSE: Barron's p15 "Week Preview" says on Mon 7/26, an examiner will be named in Washington Mutual's bankruptcy to probe a key settlement in the sale of the thrift to JPMorgan Chase. On Tuesday Dupont reports 2Q results with consensus estimates at 0.93 cents a share and last year it was 0.61 - DuPont should post strong earnings as strength in auto coatings, titanium dioxide and an uptick int he safety and protection markets offsets weakness in agriculture says John McNulty of Credit Suisse, on Thurs Microsoft meets with analysts and also on Thurs Pfizer's pediatric hypertension drug is discussec by an FDA panel.

Procter & Gamble PG $61.91 +0.54 0.88% 8,394,720 NYSE: No mentions found.

3M MMM $86.17 +1.42 1.68% 4,489,569 NYSE: No mentions found.

Travelers TRV $50.14 +0.85 1.72% 6,899,356 NYSE: No mentions found.

United Technologies UTX $70.9 +1.37 1.97% 4,624,795 NYSE: No mentions found.

Verizon VZ $28.02 +1.02 3.78% 46,768,977 Dual Listed: Barron's pM2 charts Verizon says while it lost money in 2Q, its wireless unit continued to sign up new long term customers as is Droid phone gains.

WSJ pb6 "Droid phones help VZ outrun AT&T" by Roger Cheng says Verizon's wireless arm added 665,000 contract customers vs. AT&T which had 496,000 customers in the quarter despite the launch of the iPhone 4 at the end of the period.

AJC pA13 "Buyouts give Verizon loss of $198 mil" says Verizon Communications on Fri. said it lost $198 mil in 2Q due to a buyout for 11,000 workers. Excluding the severance costs and other items, earnings beat Wall St. expectations while rev was slightly lower than analysts had expected.

WSJ pB16 "Verizon's big FIOS challenge" by Martin Peers says Verizon Comm reported Fri that 2Q net additions for FiOS TV were 174,000 copared with 300,000 a year earlier. Verizon expects to meet its target of passing 18 mil homes with the network by '12.

Fin times p10 "Verizon swings to loss after charges due to jobs cut" by Alan Rappeport, WSJ pB1 "DJIA rises 3.2% on the week" by Jonathan Cheng, NYT pB2 "Verizon retains its lead in wireless in latest quarter" by Jenna Wortham, say stocks finished the week on a high note, soaring for a 2nd consecutive day as investors refocused on strong corp. earnings after European banks largely passed their stress tests with flying colors. All of the 3 major market indexes registered strong gains for a week that included 2Q earnings from a slew of big name firms. The latest boost came on Fri, when GE raised its quarterly dividend by 20%. Verizon Comm. and American Express led the Dow on better than expected earnings, gaining 3.8% & 3.7% respectively. McDonald's fell 2.1% despite posting an earnings gain as it said it wasn't yet seeing better economic times.

Walmart WMT $51.67 +0.81 1.59% 12,946,971 NYSE: No mentions found.
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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 Richard 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 1/2 billion as of 7/15/10 followed by number of shares outstanding rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:

1. Exxon Mobil XOM $280.5 [4.5]
2. Procter & Gamble PG 248 [4]
3. Microsoft MSFT 226 [9]
4. WalMart WMT 191.5 [3.5]
5. GE 168 [10.5]
6. IBM 164.5 [1]
7. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 159 [3]
8. JPMorgan Chase 158.5 [4]
9. AT&T 151 [6]
10. Chevron CVX 147.5 [2]
11. Bank of America BAC 138 [10]
12. Cisco CSCO 133.5 [6]
13. Coke KO 126.5 [2.5]
14. Intel INTC 120.5 [5.5]
15. Pfizer PFE 117.5 [8]
16. Merck MRK 109 [3]
17. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 108 [2.5]
18. Verizon VZ 79 [3]
19. McDonald's MCD 75 [1]
20. Disney DIS 67 [2]
21. United Technologies UTX 66 [1]
22. 3M MMM 61.5 [.5]
23. American Express AXP 54 [1]
24. Kraft KFT 51.5 [2]
25. Boeing BA 51.5 [1]
26. Home Depot 47.5 [1.5]
27. Caterpillar CAT 43.5 [.5]
28. DuPont DD 35 [1]
29. Travelers 25 [.5]
30. Alcoa AA 11 [1]

Here are the latest SEC filings as of 7/25/10 other than ownership filings, registration of shares for employee benefit plans, free writing prospectuses and third party shareholder proposals:

Symbol & Co. Name/Date of Filing/Form Filed/ Comments

AT&T T: 7/22/10 8K re: 2Q earnings

6/25/10 8K: re: amendments to employee compensation plans.

5/24/10 8K: re: sale of its Sterling Commerce subsidiary to IBM for $1.4 billion in cash.

5/6/10 10-Q

5/4/10 8K re: results from the annual meeting of the stockholders of AT&T Inc. held on April 30, 2010, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Alcoa AA: 7/23/10 8K re: election of Tony Theme CFO Engineered Products & Graeme Bottger, Controller

7/22/10 10Q

7/15 & 7/13/10 8K's relating to 2Q results

5/4/10 8K re: Alcoa Inc.’s 2009 Sustainability Highlights Report.

American Express AXP: 7/22/10 8K 2Q results

7/21/10 8K re: Personnel changes & Board of Dir. elections

7/15/10 8K Delinquency & write-off statistics through 6/30/10

6/15/10 8K re: delinquency statistics through 5/31/10.

6/2/10 8K re: statistics re: worldwide billed business.

5/17/10 8K re: delinquency and write-off statistics for the lending portfolio of its U.S. Card Services operating segment for the months ended February 28, March 31 and April 30, 2010.

5/5/10 10Q

Bank of Am BAC: 7/22/10 8K re: impairment resulting from fin'l reform legislation passed by Congress

7/16/10 8K re: 2Q results

7/9/10 Free Writings Prospectuses

6/4/10 Free Writing Prospectuses

5/10/10 Rule 424(b) Prospectus

5/7/10 10-Q

Boeing BA: 6/10/10 8K re: election of Edward M. Liddy to Board of Dirs. & Audit & Fin. Committees. By-laws were amended to increase number of directors from 12 to 13.

4/28/10 8-K re: results of its Annual Meeting of Shareholders on April 26, 2010

Caterpiller CAT: 7/22/10 8K (two of them) dealing with 4Q results for period ending 6/30/10

7/22/10 8K: re: dealer statistics

6/18/10 8K re: dealer statistics.

6/17/10 8K re: plans to produce a full range of mining shovels and increase dump truck production.

6/11/10 8K re: as previously announced, Board elected Douglas R. Oberhelman as CEO effective 8/1/10.

6/11/10 8K re: results of 6/9 annual meeting of shareholders.

6/1/10 8K re: purchase of Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. for $820 million in cash from Berkshire Partners LLC and Greenbriar Equity Group LLC.

5/28/10 8K re: retirement of David B. Burritt, VP & CFO as of 6/1/10.

5/20/10 8K re: statistics re: deliveries to users for its Machinery and Engines lines of business.

5/10/10 Definitive Proxy materials

5/510 8-K re: departure of directors and officers

5/3/10 10Q

Chevron CVX: 7/12/10 8K re: updated on 2Q results

6/2/10 8K re: results of 5/26/10 vote at annual meeting for election of Directors & other matters.

5/19/10 definitive proxy materials

5/13/10 8K re: certain revisions of 10-K annual report for year ended 12/31/09.

Cisco CSCO 6/29/10 8K 6/29/10 10b5-1 re: stock trading plans adopted by insiders

5/26/10 10Q for quarter ending 5/1/10

Coke KO 7/21/10 8K re: 2Q results

Disney DIS 10Q for quarter ended 4/3/10

DuPont DD: 4/29/10 8K re: voting results from annual meeting held on 4/28/10.

4/27/10 10Q

ExxonMobil XOM: 6/25/10 8K re: completion of its acquisition of XTO Energy Inc.

6/1/10 8K re: voting results from 5/26/10 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

5/6/10 10Q

GE: 7/16/10 8K re: 2Q reports

6/16/10 8K re; election of James S. Tisch to Board of Directors. He is Pres. & CEO of Loew's.

5/7/10 8K to update fin'l info from form 10K

5/7/10 10Q

Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 6/8/10 8K re: 10Q

6/1/10 10Q

6/1/10 8K re: plans to invest $1 billion in its enterprise services business to enhance client experience and better position the business for growth.

5/18/10 8K re: 2Qtr results

Home Depot HD: 6/3/10 10Q

5/25/10 8K re: voting results from 5/20/10 annual meeting of shareholders.

5/18/10 8K re: results for quarter ended 5/2/10

Intel INTC: 7/22/10 8K re: agreement with FTC to delay antitrust case while settlement talks continue.

7/16/10 8K re: Intel's interest in SMART Technologies Inc. which did an IPO.

7/14/10 8K re: CFO commenting on 2Q results.

7/13/10 8K re: 2Q results.

6/22/10 8K re: agreed upon suspension of FTC admin. proceedings while settlement discussions are held.

5/21/10 8K re: voting results from 5/19/10 annual meeting of stockholders.

5/12/10 8K re: info provided at an Investor meeting by Paul S. Otellini, Pres. & CEO.

5/7/10 8K re: Micron Technology, Inc. completed its acquisition of Numonyx Holdings BV & issued shares of common stock to Numonyx shareholders.

IBM: 7/20/10 8K re: 2Q earnings presentation.

7/19/10 8K re: 2Q results ending 6/30/10.

JPMorganChase JPM: 7/22/10 8K re: completion of public offering of debt issues.

7/16/10 & 7/15/10 8Ks re: 2Q results

6/24/10 8K re: closing of sale of $1.25 bil of 3.40% Notes due '15.

6/24/10 8K re: election of Douglas L. Braunstein as CFO.

5/26/10 8K re: Washington Mutual Litigations.

5/20/10 8K re: voting results from 5/18/10 annual meeting of shareholders

5/10/10 10Q

Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 7/20/10 8K re: 2Q results ending 7/4/10

7/19/10 8K re: Bd of Dirs. election

7/12/10 K re: agreement to buy Micrus Endovascular.

5/10/10 10 Q

Kraft KFT: 5/21/10 8K: re voting

McDonalds MCD: 7/23/10 8K re: 2Q results ending 6/30/10

6/9/10 8K re: year to date sales figures

5/24/10 8K re: voting results of 5/20/10 annual shareholders' meeting

Merck MRK: 7/8/10 8K re: global restructuring program in conjunction with the integration of the Schering-Plough acquisition; reduction of work force by 15% & closing of plants and research sites.

5/28/10 8K re: Kenneth C. Frazier to succeed Richard T. Clark as Pres. Of the Company as of 5/1/10 and Dr. Sam Their's retirement from the Board & voting results from 5/25/10 annual meeting of shareholders.

5/11/10 8K re: information presented at 5/11/10 Annual Business Briefing

5/7/10 10Q

Microsoft MSFT: 7/22/10 8K re: 4Q results ending 6/30/10.

6/18/10 8K re: sale of $1.25 bil of Zero Coupon Convertible Sr. Notes due '13 (and related 6/9 8K).

5/28/10 8K re: retirement of Robbie Bach, pres. Of Entertainment & Devices Div.

Pfizer PFE: 5/26/10 8K re: retirement of Dr. Martin Mackay, Sr. VP & Pres, Pharma Therapeutics R&D of Pfizer Inc.

5/13/10 10Q

5/4/10 8K re: 1Qtr results

4/28/10 8K re: voting results of Pfizer's annual meeting of shareholders held on 4/22/10

Procter & Gamble PG: 7/13/10 8K re: declaration of quarterly dividend.

5/19/10 8K re: closing of 100 bil Euro 0.955 Note Offering due 2015.

4/30/10 10Q

3M MMM: 7/22/10 8K re: 2Q results

6/28/10 8K re: projected sales range for 2Q '10.

5/17/10 8K re: reclassification of certain data in 10K for 12/31/09.

5/12/10 8K re: voting results of 5/11/10 annual meeting of stockholders.

5/5/10 10Q

Travelers TRV: 7/22/10 8K & 10Q

6/15/10 8K re: $1 bil 3 year revolving credit agreement.

5/7/10 8K re: voting results of 5/4/10 annual meeting of shareholders

4/23/10 10Q

United Technologies UTX: 7/21/10 8K re: 2Q results

5/14/10 8K re: exercise of its rights to redeem $500 mil of outstanding 7.125% Notes due 11/15/10.

4/26/10 10Q

Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 7/23/10 8K re: 2Q results ending 6/30/10

7/1/10 8K re: completion of acquisition of Frontier Communications Corp. and spin off of shares to VZ shareholders.

6/11/10 8K re: agreement with certain unions.

5/27/10 8K re: record date of 6/7/10 re: proposed spin off of shares of New Communications Holdings.

5/12/10 8K re: voting results from 5/6/10 annual meeting of shareholders.

4/28/10 10Q

WalMart WMT: 7/7/10 8K re: underwriting to the public of several series of notes.

7/2/10 8K re: departure of John E. Fleming EVP & Chief Merchandising Officer effective 8/1/10.

6/29/10 8K re: appointment of Eduwardo Castro-Wright as CEO fo global.com & William S. Simon as CEO of Walmart U.S.

6/9/10 8K re: results of 6/4 annual meeting of shareholders.

6/14/10 10Q.

5/18/10 8K reconciliation of non-GAP measures.