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Post No. 816 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 Dec. 7, 2010 and Dow 30 component's SEC filings as of Dec. 11, 2010.
A read of the print editions of Sat/Sun's Wall St. Journal, Financial Times, Sat's New York Times, Monday's Investor's Business Daily & Sat's 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 Friday's stock prices and related data.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 11,674.76 down 22.55 points or 0.22% from Thursday's close of 11,697.31. For the week the Dow is up 97.25 or 0.84% from last Friday's Dow close of 11,577.51. for the year the Dow is up 0.84%. Of the 30 Dow Jones component companies 12 gained and 18 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was Boeing BA $69.38 +0.58 0.84% 6,793,239 NYSE and percentage-wise was Pfizer PFE $18.34 +0.16 0.88% 130,695,824 NYSE. The biggest decliner dollar-wise and percentage-wise was Travelers TRV $53.33 -1.06 1.95% 8,480,367 NYSE.
Inv. Bus. Daily pA1 "Strong Q4 profit gains expected, led by banks, oil & materials" by Kevin Harlin says Alcoa, Intel, JPmorgan start reporting season this week and 32% overall gain is expected. Alcoa will kick off the earnings season on Mon with Intel and JPMorgan reporting later in the week.
Inv. Bus Daily pA1 "Stocks step back but trim their losses" by Paul Whitfield says the first week of '11 delivered ncie gains for both the Nasdaq 7 the S&P 500 and a tiny step up for the NYSE compositive. The market was down in lower volume. The current outlook is the market is in a confirmed uptrend.
WSJ pB13 "Good sign for stocks in '11: an opening week gain" by Donna Yesalavich says stocks ended the first week of '11 with a gain despite being slowed by a disappointing jobs report and renewed foreclosure worries for banks. The Dow's fin'l components led its Friday decline, with JPMorgan slipping 84 cents and ank of America falling 19 cents due to the Mass State Supreme Judicial Court deciding that competitor banks' foreclosures were improper. BofA's stock is charted in a sidebar.
Fin Times p14 "Foreclosure ruling adds to jitters as fin'ls dip" by Hanah Kuchler says falling fin'ls led US stocks lower after the US economy added fewer jobs than expected in Dec, and there were fears that some home foreclosures cold be invalidated.
NYT pB7 "A foreclosure ruling & disappointing jobs report hurt shares" by Reuters says stocks fell Fri ater a court ruling in a foreclosure has prompted investors to pull out of bank stocks, adding to weakness after a lackluster jobs report. Even with the decline, however, the S&P 500 stock index and the Dow recorded their 6th consecutive week of advances.
As of the close of the market Friday, the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page B6 of today's Wall St. Journal is 0.132129493. The trailing P/E is 14.89 down from Friday's 14.91 (year ago it was 18.42); the P/E estimate is 13.55 down from Friday's 13.65 (year ago it was 13.75), and the dividend yield is 2.46 unchanged from Friday's 2.45 (last year it was 2.58). 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 1,542.58 down 2.98 from Thursday's closing numerator of 1,545.56. 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 for today by the divisor (0.132129493) you get the decrease in today's Dow. A $1 change in the price of any DJIA stock = a 7.57 change in the average.
The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $51.42 down $0.10 from Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average average closing price of $51.52. The median closing price of Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $44.73 (HPQ/AXP down $0.07 from Thursday's median closing price of $44.80. The lowest volume was United Technologies UTX $79.08 -0.07 0.09% 2,771,709 NYSE and the highest volume was again Bank of America BAC $14.25 -0.19 1.32% 391,703,695 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 lost $298 ($154,556 - $154,258).
MarketWatch Friday 1/7/11 5:08 by Donna Yesalavich says U.S. stocks fell Friday after an adverse foreclosure ruling hit bank shares hard, but major indexes ended the first week of trading in the new year higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA 11,675, -22.55, -0.19%) dropped 23 points, or 0.2%, to end at 11675. For the week, the Dow ended up 0.9%, notching its sixth weekly gain. The Nasdaq Composite (COMP 2,703, -6.72, -0.25%) fell 0.3% to end at 2703. The Nasdaq was up 1.9% for the week. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index (SPX 1,272, -2.35, -0.18%) fell 0.2% to 1271. But the index logged a gain of 1.1% for the week. Much of the week’s gains were made on Monday and Wednesday, with Monday’s rally coming on optimism for the new year while Wednesday’s climb followed a stronger-than-expected report on private-sector jobs for December. But investors were disappointed Friday by monthly employment data showing nonfarm payrolls rose by 103,000 last month as private-sector employers added 113,000 jobs, missing economists’ estimate for a gain of 150,000 jobs. The Dow’s financial components led Friday’s decline, with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM 43.57, -0.07, -0.16%) slipping 1.9% and Bank of America Corp. (BAC 14.26, +0.01, +0.07%) falling 0.8%. Weighing on the banks, the Massachusetts State Supreme Judicial Court upheld a decision that two foreclosures from U.S. Bancorp (USB 26.15, +0.06, +0.23%) and Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC 31.59, +0.09, +0.29%) were invalid because the banks failed to show they held the mortgages at the time of the foreclosure. “That takes you back into the maelstrom of who is the valid holder of the mortgage, who owns the property and will this slow the rate at which the banks can process the foreclosures,” said Joseph Battipaglia, chief market strategist of the private client group at Stifel Nicolaus. “It comes down to the timing and speed at which banks can work through their troubled asset portfolios, and that delays the timing of an expected earnings recovery.” U.S. Bancorp dropped 0.8% and Wells Fargo declined 2%. Neither stock is in the Dow. Investors fretted over how the ruling against U.S. Bancorp and Wells Fargo could influence similar cases for other banks. Among the other bank stocks that fell, Regions Financial Corp. (RF 7.00, -0.02, -0.29%) shares dropped 1.7% and BB&T Corp. (BBT 26.28, -0.05, -0.19%) declined 2%. The jobless rate fell to 9.4% in December, its lowest level in 19 months, but the economy added just 103,000 new jobs, fewer than expected. The unemployment rate, obtained from a separate household survey, fell to 9.4% last month, the lowest level since May 2009 and the biggest fall in more than a decade. It beat expectations for a 9.7% rate, although it was impacted by a drop in the civilian labor-force participation rate to 64.3%, from 64.5%. “What this is telling you is that this is not a rocketship recovery and it’s not a collapse either,” said Michael Church, president of Addison Capital. “It’s also telling you that the Fed’s not backing away.” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday that the central bank remains “unwaveringly committed” to maintaining price stability. The Fed’s bond-buying program is justified, he said, because unemployment is likely to remain above 8% for the next two years and inflation will remain subdued. The euro (EURUSD 1.2904, -0.0011, -0.0852%) slipped to $1.2913, from $1.3015 late Thursday, trading at its weakest level in more than a month against the dollar, as concerns heightened over the euro zone’s debt stresses. Among investors’ latest worries was that the Swiss National Bank’s rejection of Portuguese government bonds could trigger further rating downgrades, but the SNB noted the bonds were never part of its list of eligible collateral due to settlement reasons. The U.S. Dollar Index (DXY 81.14, +0.35, +0.43%) , tracking the U.S. currency against a basket of six others, rose 0.4%. Treasurys rose, pushing the yield on the 10-year note down to 3.33%. Gold futures edged up while crude-oil futures slipped. Among stocks in focus, Borders Group (BGP 0.92, +0.06, +6.86%) climbed 6.9% after The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that the bookstore chain has been in discussions with restructuring advisers about ways to rework its balance sheet. Liz Claiborne (LIZ 6.00, -0.01, -0.17%) tumbled 13%. The apparel maker cut its operating income forecast for the second half of 2010, citing “clearly disappointing” direct-to-consumer sales in December.
Friday's Closing Dow Numbers and Saturday's News:
AT&T T $28.85 -0.30 1.03% 47,506,257 NYSE: Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "Verizon set to anounce iPhone", WSJ pB1 "Verizon finally lands IPhone" by Shayndi Raice, WSJ pB4 "Wave of 4G gadgets" by Roger Cheng, WSJ pB4 "T-Mobile smartphones to head down market" by Roger Cheng say the largest US wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless, will make the long-awaited announcement that it is getting the iPhone in an event Tues in NYC. It will change the balance of power in the industry, ending Verizon rival AT&T's exclusive hold on the device and leaving smaller players like Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA acing 2 well capitalized competitors offering the world's most popular smartphone. The Verizon phone will be similar to the iPhone 4 but run on CDMA technology. Verizon Wireless is a jv between Verizon Communications, a Dow component and Vodafone. apple is expanding its carrier base in the US at a time when it is facing increasing pressure from phones powered by Google's operating sysgtem, Andorid. AT&T said it would launch 20 devices this year, including some on its newly dubbed 4G network. T-Mobile is aggressively heading down market with its smarphone business as many of its smartphones will be made up of Google powered phones costing less than $100.
Alcoa AA $16.42 +0.06 0.37% 36,139,004 NYSE: Inv. Bus. Daily pA1 "Strong Q4 profit gains expected, led by banks, oil & materials" by Kevin Harlin says Alcoa, Intel, JPmorgan start reporting season this week and 32% overall gain is expected. Alcoa will kick off the earnings season on Mon with Intel and JPMorgan reporting later in the week.
American Express AXP $44.36 -0.37 0.83% 6,387,555 NYSE:
Bank of America BAC $14.25 -0.19 1.32% 391,703,695 NYSE: WSJ pB18 "Banks court more woe on foreclosures" by David Reilyy says Mass' highest court ruled Fri that US Bancorp and Wells Faro improperly foreclosed on 2 properties because they couldn't prove they owned the mortgages. In Dec the NY State Sup Ct said MBIA could use statistical sampling of loans rather than combing through thousands of foreclosures in a suit against Bank of America's Countrywide.
WSJ pB13 "Good sign for stocks in '11: an opening week gain" by Donna Yesalavich says stocks ended the first week of '11 with a gain despite being slowed by a disappointing jobs report and renewed foreclosure worries for banks. The Dow's fin'l components led its Friday decline, with JPMorgan slipping 84 cents and ank of America falling 19 cents due to the Mass State Supreme Judicial Court deciding that competitor banks' foreclosures were improper. BofA's stock is charted in a sidebar.
Boeing BA $69.38 +0.58 0.84% 6,793,239 NYSE: WSJ pA4A "Mistakes led planes toward near collision" by Andy Pasztor says the Nat'l Transportation Safety Board said a series of slip ups by pilots and air traffic controllers twice put a US Airways jet and a Boeing 747 cargo plane on a near collision course over Alaska last year. Separately, the FAA on Fri released final safety mandates for many older Boeing 757 and 737 models, covering enhanced structural inspections of more than 1,300 jetliners.
Caterpillar CAT $93.73 +0.19 0.2% 4,545,761 NYSE:
Chevron CVX $91.19 +0.50 0.55% 6,344,053 NYSE:
Cisco CSCO $20.97 +0.02 0.1% 67,701,811 NASDAQ-GS:
Coke KO $62.92 -0.11 0.17% 8,290,645 NYSE:
Disney DIS $39.45 -0.20 0.5% 6,598,606 NYSE:
DuPont DD $49.76 -0.22 0.44% 5,041,486 NYSE:
Exxon XOM $75.59 +0.41 0.55% 19,290,958 NYSE: Inv. Bus Daily pB9 "Exxon keeps EPS, dividends on steady path" by Paul Whitfield says Exxon's earnings increased 4%, 90% & 47% in the past 3 quarters as rev grew 41%, 24$ & 16% in the same period. The annualized dividend yield is 2.3% and it has increased its dividend for 28 straight years. Exxon has cash of $12.2 bil
WSJ pB1 "The intelligent investor" by Jason Zweig in a story about Facebook says Exxon is the world's largest stock, with a share value of $380 bil this week.
GE $18.43 -0.13 0.7% 57,309,640 NYSE:
Hewlett-Packard HPQ $45.09 +0.21 0.47% 22,265,913 NYSE:
Home Depot HD $34.38 -0.04 0.12% 11,734,753 NYSE:
Intel INTC $20.66 0.11 0.53% 74,736,647 NASDAQ-GS: Inv. Bus. Daily pA1 "Strong Q4 profit gains expected, led by banks, oil & materials" by Kevin Harlin says Alcoa, Intel, JPmorgan start reporting season this week and 32% overall gain is expected. Alcoa will kick off the earnings season on Mon with Intel and JPMorgan reporting later in the week.
Inv. Bus Daily pA6 "chipmakers are spending again & buying its ion implanters" by marily Much profiles Varian Semiconductor Equipment which sells its ion implanters to Intel on other top chipmakers.
IBM $147.93 -0.73 0.49% 4,133,679 NYSE:
JPMorgan JPM $43.64 -0.84 1.89% 69,500,730 NYSE: Inv. Bus. Daily pA1 "Strong Q4 profit gains expected, led by banks, oil & materials" by Kevin Harlin says Alcoa, Intel, JPmorgan start reporting season this week and 32% overall gain is expected. Alcoa will kick off the earnings season on Mon with Intel and JPMorgan reporting later in the week.
NYT pB3 "2 big banks approved for ventures in China" by David Barboza,
WSJ pB18 "Long slog for banks in China" by Mohammed Hadi say JPMorgan and Morgan Sanley said on Fri that they had each won approval from Chinese regulators to form JVs in China, giving them a bigger role in China's booming securities business. JPMorgan is trying to establish investment banking in China but it isn't going as well as hoped.
WSJ pB13 "Good sign for stocks in '11: an opening week gain" by Donna Yesalavich says stocks ended the first week of '11 with a gain despite being slowed by a disappointing jobs report and renewed foreclosure worries for banks. The Dow's fin'l components led its Friday decline, with JPMorgan slipping 84 cents and ank of America falling 19 cents due to the Mass State Supreme Judicial Court deciding that competitor banks' foreclosures were improper. BofA's stock is charted in a sidebar.
Johnson & Johnson JNJ $62.6 -0.61 0.97% 11,080,609 NYSE:
Kraft KFT $31.19 -0.08 0.26% 6,742,739 NYSE:
McDonald's MCD $74.37 +0.16 0.22% 11,267,230 NYSE:
Merck MRK $37.35 +0.29 0.78% 12,752,880 NYSE:
Microsoft MSFT $28.6 -0.22 0.76% 73,746,318 NASDAQ-GS: WSJ pB4 "Microsoft redesigns surface table computer" by Naureen Malik says Microsoft Surface ahs been one of the more puzzling parts of MSFT's products. It is a heft table witha computer and giant touch screen. Microsoft ahs redesigned the Surface and slashed its price. Also in a story by Jessica Vascellaro it says MSFT's Steve Ballmer was shown News Corp's soon to be launced newspaper for tablets, called the Dailey.
Pfizer PFE $18.34 +0.16 0.88% 130,695,824 NYSE: Inv. Bus. Daily pA3 "Medical" says Pfizer, the world's largest drugmaker, agreed with Sutro Biopharma to collaborate ont he r&d of biotech drugs on undisclosed terms.
Procter & Gamble PG $64.5 -0.19 0.29% 11,933,975 NYSE:
3M MMM $86.23 +0.09 0.1% 3,340,428 NYSE:
Travelers TRV $53.33 -1.06 1.95% 8,480,367 NYSE:
United Technologies UTX $79.08 -0.07 0.09% 2,771,709 NYSE:
Verizon VZ $35.93 -0.30 0.83% 29,068,590 Dual Listed: Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "Verizon set to anounce iPhone", WSJ pB1 "Verizon finally lands IPhone" by Shayndi Raice, NYT pB3 "Verizon is said to be planning to announce iPhone 4 on its network" by Miguel Helft say the largest US wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless, will make the long-awaited announcement that it is getting the iPhone in an event Tues in NYC. It will change the balance of power in the industry, ending Verizon rival AT&T's exclusive hold on the device and leaving smaller players like Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA acing 2 well capitalized competitors offering the world's most popular smartphone. The Verizon phone will be similar to the iPhone 4 but run on CDMA technology. Verizon Wireless is a jv between Verizon Communications, a Dow component and Vodafone. apple is expanding its carrier base in the US at a time when it is facing increasing pressure from phones powered by Google's operating sysgtem, Andorid. AT&T said it would launch 20 devices this year, including some on its newly dubbed 4G network. T-Mobile is aggressively heading down market with its smarphone business as many of its smartphones will be made up of Google powered phones costing less than $100.
Walmart WMT $54.08 +0.12 0.22% 7,960,395 NYSE:
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Here are the current CEOs of the Dow 30 Companies:
AT&T T Randall L. Stephenson (Dallas, TX)
Alcoa AA Klaus Kleinfeld (NY, NY)
American Express AXP Kenneth I. Chenault (NY, NY)
Bank of America BAC Brian T. Moynihan (Charlotte, N.C.)
Boeing BA W. James McNerney, Jr. (Cyhicago, Ill)
Caterpillar CAT Douglas Oberhelman (Peoria, Ill.)
Chevron CVX John Watson (San Ramon, CA)
Cisco CSCO John Chambers (San Jose, CA)
Coca Cola KO Muhtar Kent (Atlanta, GA)
Disney DIS Robert Iger (Burbank, CA)
DuPont DD Ellen Kullman (Wilmington, DE)
ExxonMobil XOM Rex W. Tillerson (Irving, Tx)
GE Jeffrey R. Immelt (Fairfield, CT)
Hewlett-Packard HPQ Leo Apotheker (Palo, Alto, CA)
Home Depot HD Frank Blake (Atlanta, GA)
Intel INTC Paul S. Otellini (Santa Clara, CA)
IBM Samuel J. Palmisano (Armonk, NY)
JPMorgan Chase JPM Jamie Dimon (NY, NY)
Johnson & Johnson JNJ William C. Weldon (New Brunswick, NJ)
Kraft KFT Irene Rosenfeld (Northfield, Ill.)
McDonald's MCD Jim Skinner (Oak Brook, Ill)
Merck MRK Kenneth Frazer 1/1/11 replaces Richard Clark (Whitehouse Station, N.J.)
Microsoft MSFT Steve Ballmer (Redmond, WA)
Pfizer PFE Ian Read (NY, NY)
Procter & Gamble PG Bob McDonald (Cincinnati, OH)
3M MMM George W. Buckley (St. Paul, MN)
Travelers TRV Jay S. Fishman (NY, NY)
United Technologies UTX Louis Chenevert (Hartford, CT)
Verizon VZ Ivan Seidenberg (NY, NY)
Wal-Mart WMT Mike Duke (Bentonville, ARK)
Here are the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 ranked in order of market capitalization rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion as of 12/7/10 followed by number of shares outstanding rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:
1. Exxon Mobil XOM $361 [5]
2. Microsoft MSFT 233 [9]
3. WalMart WMT 200 [3.5]
4. GE 182.5 [10.5]
5. IBM 179 [1]
6. Procter & Gamble PG 176 [3]
7. Chevron CVX 174 [2]
8. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 171 [3]
9. AT&T T 169 [6]
10. JPMorgan Chase JPM 154 [4]
11. Coke KO 149 [2.5]
12. Pfizer PFE 134.5 [8]
13. Intel INTC 120.5 [5.5]
14. Bank of America BAC 117 [10]
15. Cisco CSCO 111 [6]
16. Merck MRK 109 [3]
17. Verizon VZ 98 [3]
18. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 96 [2.5]
19. McDonald's MCD 85 [1]
20. United Technologies UTX 72.5 [1]
21. Disney DIS 71 [2]
22. 3M MMM 60.5 [.5]
23. Caterpillar CAT 57.5 [.5]
24. Home Depot 55 [1.5]
25. American Express AXP 54 [1]
26. Kraft KFT 53.5 [2]
27. Boeing BA 48.5 [1]
28. DuPont DD 45 [1]
29. Travelers 25.5 [.5]
30. Alcoa AA 14.5 [1]
Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K SEC filings as of 12/11/10:
Symbol & Co. Name/Date of Filing/Form Filed/ Comments
AT&T T: 12/7/10 8K re: replacement of existing 5 year $9.4 bil revolving credit facility
12/1/10 8K re: redemption of all 7.8% notes due 3/1/11
11/5 10Q for quarter ending 9/30/10
Alcoa AA: 10/22/10 10Q for 3Q ended 9/30/10
10/12 8K re: transcript of 3Q earnings conference
10/8/10 8K re: 3Q results
American Express AXP: 11/15/10 8K re: delinquency & write-off statistics for period ending 10/31/10
11/3/10 10Q for quarter ending 9/30/10
11/2/10 8K re: changes to retirement plan for officers
Bank of Am BAC: 11/5/10 10Q for quarter ending 9/30/10
11/5/10 8K re: status of Countrywide litigation
10/20/108K re: registration of 50,354,545 shares
Boeing BA: 12/3/10 8K re: election o Ronald A. Williams to Board of Directors and the Audit & Finance Committees
11/16/10 8K re: $2.3 bil 364 day revolving credit agreement
Caterpiller CAT: 12/10/10 8K re: election of Jesse J. Greene, Jr. & Miles D. White to Board of Directors and Greene to the Audit Committee & White to Governance Committee
12/7/10 8K re: entering into bridge loan of up to $8.6 bil
11/18/10 8K re: status of acquisition of Bucyrus
11/18/10 8K 3 month dealer statistics
11/15/10 8K re: acquisition of Bucyrus for $8.6 bil to close mid '11
11/12/10 8K/A resignation of Gail D. Foster from Board of Directors
11/4/10 10Q for quarter ending 9/30/10
Chevron CVX:11/5/10 10Q for quarter ending 9/30/10
10/29 8K re 3Q net income of $3.77 bil down from $3.83 bil for 3Q '09
Cisco CSCO 11/23/10 10Q for quarter ending 10/30/10
Coke KO 12/9/10 8K re: election of Howard G. Buffett to Board of Directors & Public Issue & Diversity Relations Committees
12/1/10 8K/A re: technical amendment of prior 8K
11/23/10 8K re: result of cash tender offer for debt
11/18/10 8K re: completion of note offering
11/16/10 8K re: resignation of Cathleen p. Black from Board to become Chancellor of NYC Schools
11/8/10 8K re: underwriting agreement for issuance of notes
11/4/10 8K re tender offer for CCE debt
10/29/10 10Q for quarter ending 10/1/10
Disney DIS 11/24/10 10K for year ending 10/2/10
11/12/10 8K re: results of 4Qtr earnings
DuPont DD: 12/10 8K re: retirement of Jeffrey L, Keefer as EVP
10/21/10 10Q for 3rd quarter ending 9/30/10
10/26/10 8K re 3Q results
ExxonMobil XOM: 11/30/10 8K re: revisions to officers' compensation plan
11/16/10 10Q re 3Q results ending 9/30/10
10/28/10 8K re: 3Q results
10/22/10 SC TO-C re: offer to buy Clarinet Inc., a cancer diagnostic firm
GE: 11/3/10 10Q re 9/30/10 results
Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 12/2/10 8K re: underwriting agreement for issuance of notes
11/22/10 8K re: 4Q results
10/18/10 8K re: election of Leo Aptheker as Pres/CEO
Home Depot HD: 12/2/10 10Q re: results for period ending 10/31/10
11/16/10 8K re: update of fiscal year '10 guidance
Intel INTC: 11/12/10 8K re: 15% increase of quarterly cash dividend
11/2/10 10Q for quarter ending 9/25/10
IBM: 12/8/10 8K re: underwriting agreement re: debt
12/6/10 8K re: resignatin of Cathleen Black from Board of Directors
10/26/10 10Q for period ending 9/30/10
JPMorganChase JPM: 10/28/10 8K/A re: amendment to replace capital covenants re: debt
10/20/10 & 10/19/10 2 8Ks re: amendment to credit agreements
10/14/10 8K re: investor conference re: 3Q results
Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 11/10/10 10Q for quarter ending 10/3/10
Kraft KFT:12/6/10 8K re: seeking preliminary injunction vs. Starbucks
11/30/10 8K re: arbitration with Starbucks'11/29/10 8K re: cash debt tender offer to holders of $1 bil of notes
11/8/10 8K re: status of agreement with Starbucks'
11/5/10 10Q for quarter ending 9/30/10
11/4/10 8K re: 3Q results
McDonalds MCD: 12/10 8K re: amendment of Cert. of Incorp re: designations of rights of preferred stock
12/9/10 8K re: global sales results
11/9/10 8K re: results of global sales results
11/5/10 8K re: resignation of Denis Hennequin as President of McDonald's Europe to be replaced by Steve Easterbook
11/5/10 10Q for period ending 9/30/10
Merck MRK: 12/10/10 8K re: sale of 2.2% notesw due '16
11/30/10 8K re: election of Kenneth C. Frazier a CEO with Richard T. Clark staing as Chair
11/8/10 10Q for period ending 9/30/10
Microsoft MSFT: 11/19/10 8K re: results of 11/16/10 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
Pfizer PFE: 12/9/10 8K re: resignation of Jeffrey B. Kindler as CEO & election of Ian C. Read as Pres/CEO
11/12/10 10Q for quarter ending 10/3/10
11/2/10 8K re: 3Q results
10/22/10 SC TO-T & 10/12/10 8K both re: Pfizer's purchase of King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Procter & Gamble PG: 11/18/10 8K re: close of sale of $1 bil of 1.8% notes due '15
10/28/10 10Q for period ending 9/30/10
10/27/10 8K re: results for quarter ending 9/30/10
3M MMM: 12/7/10 8K re: re: financial outlook for '11
11/5/10 10Q re: quarter ending 9/30/10'
10/28/10 8K re: 3Q results of $6.9 bil sales
Travelers TRV: 11/10/10 8K re: completion of tender offer for 6.25% debentures due '67
11/9/10 8K re: modification of rights of holders of 6.75% notes due '36
11/8/10 re: purchase of 43% of a Brazilian surety
11/8/10 8K & 11/5/10 8K re: amendment of consent solicitation of 6.75% notes
11/1/10 8K re: underwriting agreement for sale of notes
10/27/10 8K re: tender offer to holders of 6.25% due '67
United Technologies UTX: 12/10/10 8K re: election of Ellen Kullman, DuPont CEO to Board of Directors
12/10/10 8K re: resignation of Carlos M. Gutierrez from Board
10/25/10 10Q for period ending 9/30/10
Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 12/8/10 8K/A re: Board committee assignments of Rodney E. Slater
11/10/10 8K/A re: election of Lowell C. McAdam as Pres/COO & Francis J. Shammo EVP & CFO
10/28/10 10Q for period ending 9/30/10
WalMart WMT: 12/6/10 10Q for period ending 10/31/10
11/16/10 8K re: 3 Qtr EPS 0.95 cents and raising full year EPS guidance from $3.95 to $4.05