12/20/11 Tues pm Dow Closes at 12,103.58 up 337.32 or 2.87%

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Tuesday at 12,103.58 up 337.32 or 2.87% from Monday's close of 11,766.26. Of the 30 Dow components all 30 gained. The biggest gainer dollar-wise and percentage-wise was Catepillar CAT $91.735 +4.485 5.14% 7,437,028 NYSE.

As of the open of the market Tuesday, the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C5 of today's Wall St. Journal is 0.132129493. Tuesday's trailing P/E ratio is 12.73 down from yesterday's trailing P/E ratio of 12.84 (year ago it was 14.63); today's P/E estimate is 12.20 unchanged from Monday's P/E estimate of 12.20 (year ago it was 13.43), and today's dividend yield is 2.70 up from yesterday's dividend yield of 2.68 (last year it was 2.50). 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.

Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,592.24 up 38.57 from Monday's closing numerator of 1,554.67. 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 for today by the divisor (0.132129493) you get the increase 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 Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $53.31 up $1.49 from Monday's average closing price of $51.82. The median closing price of Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $43.02 (DD/HD) up $1.30 from Monday's median closing price of $41.72. The lowest volume was Travelers TRV $58.13 +1.42 2.5% 3,285,072 NYSE and the highest volume again was Bank of America BAC $5.16 +0.175 3.51% 222,404,653 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 $3,857 ($159,930 - $155,467).

MarketWatch Tuesday 12/20/11 3:54 pm by Laura Mandaro and Deborah Levine says US stocks surged Tuesday, sending the Dow back above 12,000, as sentiment about the global economy got a boost from a jump in the nation’s housing starts, improving German confidence data and a better Spanish bond auction. Rebounding from the prior day’s losses, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 331 points, or 2.8%, to 12,097.83, with all 30 blue-chip components higher. The S&P 500 jumped 36 points, or 2.9%, to 1,241, led by financial firms. All 10 subsectors were higher. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 78 points, or 3%, to 2,601. Component heavyweight Apple Inc. rose 3.2%. Ahead of the opening bell, data showed new construction of U.S. houses rose 9.3% in November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 685,000 — the highest pace since April 2010. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected a rate of 635,000 for last month. The housing data “I would put in the category of big surprises. That’s extremely good news,” said Hugh Johnson, chief investment officer of Hugh Johnson Advisors. “It’s evidence that a beleaguered sector of the economy is starting to stabilize and improve,” he said. Investors also got a burst of good news from Europe, where the heavy debt loads and surging borrowing costs of several euro-zone members have helped raise the prospect of a global recession. The Ifo Institute’s index of German business confidence edged higher in December, beating analysts’ expectations for the largest European economy. Also, Spain was able to sell short-term debt at a far lower yield than in the prior month’s auction, and yields on its 10-year bonds trading in the secondary market also pulled back to just over 5%.
Combined with the housing data, “the news today was pretty darn good,” said Johnson, and likely persuaded investors to climb into a market that’s reached what some measures deem as undervalued. European efforts to avoid one or more sovereign debt defaults were also in the mix, as they have been for months. Talk that European banks were buying up substantial amounts of sovereign debt as part of a recently unveiled European Central Bank program contributed to the bullish mood, said Michael Jones, chief investment officer at RiverFront Investment Group. “It’s a good, short-term, temporary fix that can get Italy and Spain through their funding needs,” he said.
European stocks rallied. The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP +2.04% rose 2% to 238.51. U.S. stocks finished about 1% lower on Monday, with the Dow industrials DJIA +2.87% down about 100 points after comments from the head of the European Central Bank and regional finance ministers left investors uneasy about efforts to curb the debt crisis gripping the euro zone. Within the Dow, a quintet of stocks rose more than 4%, led by a 5.5% gain in J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM +0.14% shares. On the S&P 500, Pulte Home Group PHM -2.38% jumped 9%, leading a rally in homebuilders’ shares, after the housing starts data. D.R. Horton Inc. DHI +0.24% and Lennar Corp. were up more than 5%. Red Hat Inc. RHT -0.69% shares tumbled 8.8% after the software company reported a surge in earnings but issued a disappointing sales outlook late Monday. Navistar International Corp. NAV -0.03% shares jumped 6.9% after reporting that improved performance for its North American truck business lifted fourth-quarter profit to $255 million, or $3.48 a share, from $44 million, or 61 cents a share. Shares of Sprint Nextel Corp. S +9.26% rallied 10%, leading S&P 500 gainers. Rival AT&T Inc. T +0.14% late Monday dropped its $39 billion bid to buy Deutsche Telekom AG’s DTE -0.09% T-Mobile unit, after the deal met opposition from U.S. regulators. AT&T shares added 1.2%. ConAgra Foods Inc. CAG +0.03% , the Omaha, Neb.-based foods concern, said second-quarter net income fell 15% as sales rose 8.1%. Shares rose nearly 4%. Bank of America Corp. BAC +0.19% shares rebounded 3.9% to $5.18 after closing below $5 Monday for the first time in more than two years.

Tuesday's Closing Dow Numbers:

Symbol Last Sale Change % Change Share Volume Market

AT&T T
$29.11 +0.37 1.29% 31,846,867 NYSE

Alcoa AA
$8.875 +0.345 4.04% 34,547,603 NYSE

American Express AXP
$47.92 +1.88 4.08% 6,416,352 NYSE

Bank of America BAC
$5.16 +0.175 3.51% 222,404,653 NYSE

Boeing BA
$72.395 +2.235 3.19% 5,021,194 NYSE

Catepillar CAT
$91.735 +4.485 5.14% 7,437,028 NYSE

Chevron CVX
$103.565 +3.845 3.86% 6,261,388 NYSE

CSCO
$18.405 +0.715 4.04% 43,906,986 NASDAQ-GS

Coke KO
$68.4 +1.03 1.53% 7,743,409 NYSE

Disney DIS
$36.155 +1.405 4.04% 9,243,061 NYSE

DuPont DD
$45.01 +1.77 4.09% 6,377,918 NYSE

Exxon XOM
$81.945 +2.415 3.04% 17,994,175 NYSE

GE
$17.265 +0.405 2.4% 57,291,476 NYSE

Hewlett-Packard HPQ
$25.885 +0.755 3% 13,979,952 NYSE

Home Depot HD
$41.94 +1.74 4.33% 18,042,936 NYSE

Intel INTC
$23.84 +0.745 3.23% 44,527,507 NASDAQ-GS

IBM
$187 +4.11 2.25% 4,224,556 NYSE

JPMorgan JPM
$32.215 +1.515 4.93% 44,912,884 NYSE

Johnson & Johnson JNJ
$64.5325 +1.0025 1.58% 9,538,386 NYSE

Kraft KFT
$36.9 +0.68 1.88% 7,587,388 NYSE

McDonald's MCD
$98.79 +1.55 1.59% 4,861,222 NYSE

Merck MRK
$37.06 +0.59 1.62% 17,009,789 NYSE

MSFT
$26.025 +0.495 1.94% 59,718,920 NASDAQ-GS

Pfizer PFE
$21.475 +0.335 1.58% 53,487,628 NYSE

Procter & Gamble PG
$65.79 +0.84 1.29% 9,255,587 NYSE

MMM
$80.31 +2.49 3.2% 4,571,800 NYSE

Travelers TRV
$58.13 +1.42 2.5% 3,285,072 NYSE

United Technologies UTX
$74.4 +2.65 3.69% 4,618,576 NYSE

Verizon VZ
$39.21 +0.58 1.5% 19,828,980 DualListed

Walmart WMT
$59.19 +1.41 2.44% 10,686,271 NYSE

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The following are excerpts from Tuesday morning's Blog.

A read of the print editions of Tuesday's The Wall St. Journal, Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, New York Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution & Daily Report (Ga. - carries Bloomberg) 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 Jones Industrial AverageThe Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Monday at 11,766.26 down 100.13 or 0.84% from Friday's close of 11,866.39. For the year the Dow is up 1.63%. Of the 30 Dow components 3 gained and 27 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise and percentage-wise was Merck MRK $36.47 +0.22 0.61% 16,500,302 NYSE. The biggest decliner dollar-wise and percentage-wise was Chevron CVX $99.72 -1.14 1.13% 5,976,311 NYSE.

WSJ pC4 "Banks drag DJIA down 100 points" by Brendan Conway says banks led stocks lower, sagging under the weight of another batch of worrisome headlines from Europe & fresh expectations for tighter capital standards. Bank of America fell 22 cents to lead the Dow lower and fall under $5 for the first time since Mar. '09. JPMorgan was the Dow's 2nd weakest stock losing 1.19. AT&T lost 11 cents after the Wall St Journal said talks on the purchase of T-Mobile had cooled. After the close AT&T said the deal was abandoned.

NYT pB1 "Indexes fall on skidding bank shares" by Nelson D. Schwartz says 2 years afer Brian Moynihan became Bank of America's ceo, its shares crashed through the $5 mark on Mon, the lowest they have traded since March '09. Other banks stocks fell even harder as investors fretted on renewed concerns about bank capital cushions & a darkening economic outlook in Europe. The loss of 2/3 of BofA's favlue since 12/16/09 far exceeds the drop in other banks like JPMorgan over the same period. Fin'l stocks fell by more than 2% Mon leading the entire stock market down.

Inv. Bus. Daily pA1 "Stocks suffer losses, but volume falls" by Vincent Mao says stocks turned modest gains into heavy losses Mon, extending last week's declines. Monday's action was stocks stumble in light volume as the current outlook is the market is still in a correction.

USA Today p4B "Distrust in European progress sends stocks down again" by Bloomberg says US stocks slumped Mon following a 2 day advance as fin'l shares tumbled & concern grew tht European officials were failing to make progress in taming the debt crisis.

Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,554.67 down 13.23
from Friday's closing numerator of 1,567.90. 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 Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $51.82 down 0.44 from Friday's average closing price of $52.26. The median closing price of Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $41.72 (DD/HD) down $0.48 from Friday's median closing price of $42.20. The lowest volume was Travelers TRV $56.71 -0.57 1% 4,020,538 NYSE and the highest volume again was Bank of America BAC $4.985 -0.215 4.13% 343,393,704 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 lost $1,323 ($156,790 - $155,467).

MarketWatch Monday 12/19/11 5:44 pm by Laura Mandaro says US stocks closed about 1% lower Monday, deepening losses as separate comments from the head of the European Central Bank and the region’s finance ministers lacked the heft or details deemed necessary to curtail the region’s debt crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA -0.84% ended down 100.13 points, or 0.8%, at 11,766.26. A 4.1% drop in Bank of America Corp. BAC +0.50% shares to under $5 led declines for all but three of the index’s 30 components. Stocks turned lower midmorning after ECB President Mario Draghi undercut hopes that the central bank would be more aggressive in helping struggling countries by expanding its bond purchases, noting its governing treaty “forbids monetary financing.” The comments “put more nails in the proverbial coffin of having the European Central Bank step in as the lender of last resort,” said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott. That’s disappointing to investors who view ECB purchases of debt issued by European countries nearly squeezed out of the bond market as an important tool in ending the sovereign-debt crisis. “That’s one solution seemingly removed,” noted Luschini.
Losses doubled in the last hour of trading after a statement from European Union finance ministers, who met by telephone, said euro-currency members had agreed on providing additional bailout funding via the International Monetary Fund.
But the added resources -- 150 billion euros, or $196 billion -- fell short of the 200 billion euros proposed at the Dec. 9 EU leaders’ summit. “Investors wanted a larger amount,” said Andrew Wilkinson, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak & Co. Also the statement lacked a firm statement of contribution from some EU nations outside the currency bloc, including the United Kingdom, a financial heavyweight. Read MarketWatch First Take on the U.K.'s balking at IMF loans. Bank stocks were hit particularly hard, also weighed by a report in The Wall Street Journal saying the Federal Reserve is expected to embrace a new global framework that requires giant financial institutions to hold extra capital, a defeat for giant U.S. banks. Read more on big-bank capital rules and also more on Fed’s expected moves at WSJ.com. The S&P 500 financial subsector, down more than 2%, led losses for all 10 S&P 500 industry groups. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP -1.26% dropped 32.19 points, or 1.3%, to 2,523.14. Wall Street‘s benchmark indexes lost more than 2% lower last week, as investors characterized the most recent European Union summit — the highly anticipated Dec. 9 event that resulted in an agreement to forge a tighter fiscal union — as doing too little to help debt-burdened euro-zone members in the short term. On Friday, early gains evaporated after Fitch Ratings cut France’s outlook to negative and warned of possible downgrades for six European countries. “The U.S. stock market remains highly correlated with the direction of European news flow,” said Fred Dickson, chief investment strategist at Davidson Cos.
Europe markets shed the bulk of gains after the Draghi speech, with Stoxx Europe 600 index XX:SXXP +0.02% closing up 0.04 point at 233.75. In France, the CAC 40 index FR:PX1 +0.06% added 1.9 point at 2,974.20. Asia markets slumped Monday after reports of the death of North Korea’s Kim Jong-il. The region is likely to see increased focus in coming days and weeks amid concerns about stability in the country and region. Within commodities, futures for January crude CL2F +0.59% veered between minor gains and losses, rising 35 cents to close up to $93.88 a barrel. February gold GC2G -0.12% ended down $1.20 at $1,596.70 an ounce. The dollar rose against most major currencies, adding to gains after the EU statement. The dollar index DXY +0.29% , which measures the dollar against a basket of six currencies, rose to 80.372, up fractionally from 80.216 late Friday.

Monday's Closing Dow Numbers and Tuesday's News:

Symbol Last Sale Change % Change Share Volume Market

AT&T T $28.74 -0.11 0.38% 18,935,676 NYSE: WSJ pA1 "AT&T hangs up on T-Mobile" by Anton Troianovski, NYT pB1 "AT&T, in major setback, drops its bid for T-Mobile" by Michael J. de la Merced, USA Today p1B "AT&T drops bid to buy T-Mobile" by Byron Acohido, WSJ pA18 "No justice for cellphone users" editorial, AJC pA11 "AT&T bakcs off bid for T-Mobile" by Kristi E.Swartz say AT&T ended its effort to buy T-Mobile USa, acknowledging that it could not overcome stiff opposition by the Obama administration to form the nation's biggest cellphone service provider. this scraps the $39 bil takeover and AT&T hopes for growth as it wanted T-Mobile's cellular airwaves to relieve its congested network and offer faster service. T-Mobile, the weakest of the 4 nat'l operators now has an uncertain future. The WSJ editorial says Obama admin made a mistake in opposing the deal and now we will have to deal with slow AT&T service.

WSJ pC4 "Banks drag DJIA down 100 points" by Brendan Conway says banks led stocks lower, sagging under the weight of another batch of worrisome headlines from Europe & fresh expectations for tighter capital standards. Bank of America fell 22 cents to lead the Dow lower and fall under $5 for the first time since Mar. '09. JPMorgan was the Dow's 2nd weakest stock losing 1.19. AT&T lost 11 cents after the Wall St Journal said talks on the purchase of T-Mobile had cooled. After the close AT&T said the deal was abandoned.

Alcoa AA $8.53 -0.28 3.18% 25,676,652 NYSE: No mentions found.

American Express AXP $46.04 -0.84 1.79% 5,270,821 NYSE: No mentions found.

Bank of America BAC $4.985 -0.215 4.13% 343,393,704 NYSE: NYT pB1 "Indexes fall on skidding bank shares" by Nelson D. Schwartz says 2 years afer Brian Moynihan became Bank of America's ceo, its shares crashed through the $5 mark on Mon, the lowest they have traded since March '09. Other banks stocks fell even harder as investors fretted on renewed concerns about bank capital cushions & a darkening economic outlook in Europe. The loss of 2/3 of BofA's value since 12/16/09 far exceeds the drop in other banks like JPMorgan over the same period. Fin'l stocks fell by more than 2% Mon leading the entire stock market down.

WSJ pC4 "Banks drag DJIA down 100 points" by Brendan Conway says banks led stocks lower, sagging under the weight of another batch of worrisome headlines from Europe & fresh expectations for tighter capital standards. Bank of America fell 22 cents to lead the Dow lower and fall under $5 for the first time since Mar. '09. JPMorgan was the Dow's 2nd weakest stock losing 1.19. AT&T lost 11 cents after the Wall St Journal said talks on the purchase of T-Mobile had cooled. After the close AT&T said the deal was abandoned.

Boeing BA $70.16 -0.85 1.2% 3,571,446 NYSE: AJC pA12 "Boeing says its studying Wichita operations" says Boeing says it's still reviewing its Wichita operations and won't make an announcement about any work moving elsewhere until late this year or early next year.

Caterpillar CAT $87.25 +0.05 0.06% 7,918,294 NYSE: WSJ pB6 "Caerpillar keeps sales streak going" by Bob Tita, IBD pA2 "Caterpillar's global sales rise" say Caterpillar said its global retails sales of its construction & mining machinery rose 30% in the quarter ended Nov.

Chevron CVX $99.72 -1.14 1.13% 5,976,311 NYSE: No mentions found.

CSCO $17.69 -0.25 1.39% 39,672,591 NASDAQ-GS: No mentions found.

Coke KO $67.37 -0.07 0.1% 5,880,777 NYSE: No mentions found.

Disney DIS $34.75 -0.57 1.61% 11,433,001 NYSE: No mentions found.

DuPont DD $43.24 -0.74 1.68% 6,084,800 NYSE: No mentions found.

Exxon XOM $79.53 -0.63 0.79% 16,041,857 NYSE: No mentions found.

GE $16.86 -0.15 0.88% 66,188,617 NYSE: No mentions found.

Hewlett-Packard HPQ $25.13 -0.71 2.75% 16,830,322 NYSE: No mentions found.

Home Depot HD $40.2 -0.22 0.54% 8,901,526 NYSE: No mentions found.

Intel INTC $23.095 -0.135 0.58% 42,234,694 NASDAQ-GS: No mentions found.

IBM $182.89 -0.68 0.37% 5,038,746 NYSE: No mentions found.

JPMorgan JPM $30.7 -1.19 3.73% 47,186,138 NYSE: NYT pB1 "Indexes fall on skidding bank shares" by Nelson D. Schwartz says 2 years afer Brian Moynihan became Bank of America's ceo, its shares crashed through the $5 mark on Mon, the lowest they have traded since March '09. Other banks stocks fell even harder as investors fretted on renewed concerns about bank capital cushions & a darkening economic outlook in Europe. The loss of 2/3 of BofA's value since 12/16/09 far exceeds the drop in other banks like JPMorgan over the same period. Fin'l stocks fell by more than 2% Mon leading the entire stock market down.

WSJ pC4 "Banks drag DJIA down 100 points" by Brendan Conway says banks led stocks lower, sagging under the weight of another batch of worrisome headlines from Europe & fresh expectations for tighter capital standards. Bank of America fell 22 cents to lead the Dow lower and fall under $5 for the first time since Mar. '09. JPMorgan was the Dow's 2nd weakest stock losing 1.19. AT&T lost 11 cents after the Wall St Journal said talks on the purchase of T-Mobile had cooled. After the close AT&T said the deal was abandoned.

Johnson & Johnson JNJ $63.53 -0.77 1.2% 8,974,704 NYSE: No mentions found.

Kraft KFT $36.22 -0.27 0.74% 7,417,997 NYSE: No mentions found.

McDonald's MCD $97.24 -0.25 0.26% 5,154,498 NYSE: Inv. Bus. Daily pB3 "Restaurants" do they still ahve upside?" by Alan R. Elliott says McDonald's continues to steal slow, steady gains since clearing a cup base in Oct. Consensus views see its sales growth slowing to single digits in Q4.

Merck MRK $36.47 +0.22 0.61% 16,500,302 NYSE: No mentions found.

Microsoft MSFT $25.53 -0.47 1.81% 52,234,794 NASDAQ-GS: No mentions found.

Pfizer PFE $21.14 +0.11 0.52% 42,539,149 NYSE: No mentions found.

Procter & Gamble PG $64.95 -0.19 0.29% 7,716,028 NYSE: WSJ pB6 "P&G clears plan for mobile coupons" by Hannah Karp says P&G is working with mobeam Inc. on a pilot program that will allow redemption of copons straight from phones as mobeam has a patent to beam out a bar code from the screen of a phone that is legible to normal laser scanners.

MMM $77.82 -1.05 1.33% 3,484,268 NYSE: No mentions found.

Travelers TRV $56.71 -0.57 1% 4,020,538 NYSE: No mentions found.

United Technologies UTX $71.75 -0.64 0.88% 4,295,359 NYSE: No mentions found.

Verizon VZ $38.63 -0.15 0.39% 14,474,948 DualListed: No mentions found.

Walmart WMT $57.78 -0.49 0.84% 7,195,634 NYSE: WSJ pB7 "Winn-Dixie stores is taken private" by Annie Gasparro says grocery stores are suffering due to copetition from discount retailers like Walmart and Target.
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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. (Chicago, 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 Meg Whitman (Palo, Alto, CA)
Home Depot HD Frank Blake (Atlanta, GA)
Intel INTC Paul S. Otellini (Santa Clara, CA)
IBM Virginia M. Rometty (replaces Samuel J. Palmisano 1/1/12) (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 (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 Lowell McAdam (NY, NY) Lowell C. McAdam
Wal-Mart WMT Mike Duke (Bentonville, ARK)

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Here are the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 ranked in order of market capitalization rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion as of 12/1/11 followed by number of shares outstanding rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:

1. Exxon Mobil XOM $302.5 [5]
2. IBM 223 [1]
3. Microsoft MSFT 212 [8.5]
4. Chevron CVX 203 [2]
5. WalMart WMT 202 [3.5]
6. Procter & Gamble PG 176.5 [3]
7. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 176 [3]
8. AT&T T 171 [6]
9. GE 168 [10.5]
10. Pfizer PFE 154 [7.5]
11. Coke KO 152 [2.5]
12. Intel INTC 131 [5]
13. JPMorgan Chase JPM 116 [4]
14. Merck MRK 109 [3]
15. Verizon VZ 107 [3]
16. Cisco CSCO 102 [5.5]
17. McDonald's MCD 98 [1]
18. United Technologies UTX 69.5 [1]
19. Disney DIS 64.5 [2]
20. Kraft KFT 64.5 [2]
21. Caterpillar CAT 62.5 [.5]
22. Home Depot HD 60.5 [1.5]
23. Bank of America BAC 56 [10]
24. 3M MMM 56 [.5]
25. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 56 [2]
26. American Express AXP 55.5 [1]
27. Boeing BA 53 [1]
28. DuPont DD 43.5 [1]
29. Travelers TRV 23 [.5]
30. Alcoa AA 10.5 [1]

Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 12/1/11:

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

AT&T T: 11/28 8K re: redemption of subsidiary Cingular Wirelss' $2.97 bil debt
11/25/11 8K re: withdrawal from FCC of application to buy T-Mobile
11/7/11 10Q for qtr ended 9/30/11
10/27/11 8K re: redemption of 5.87% Notes due 2/1/12
10/20/11 2 8Ks re: 3Qtr results
9/8/11 8K re: redemption of certain notes
9/1/11 8K re: Dept. of Justice lawsuit to block AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile saying it will lessen competition & raise prices

Alcoa AA: 11/16/11 8K re: exec changes
10/20/11 10Q for Qtr ended 9/30/11
10/14/11 8K re: transcript of 3Qtr earnings call
10/12/11 8K re: 3Qtr results

American Express AXP: 11/15/11 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats for Aug, Sept & Oct
11/4/11 8K re: exec changes
11/2/11 10Q for Qtr ended 9/30/11
10/19/11 8K re: 3Qtr results
10/17/11 8K re: delinq & write-f stats for 3 months eded 9/30/11
9/15/11 & 9/14/11 8Ks re: delinquency & write-off stats for 3 months ended 8

Bank of Am BAC: 12/1/11 Proxy re: amendment of Dec. of Trust for Preferred HITs
11/17/11 8K re: exchange of preferred shares
11/2/11 10Q for Qtr ended 9/30/11
10/18/11 8K re: 3Qtr results
10/7/11 8K re: separation contracts with Sallie L. Krawcheck & Joe L. Price
9/7/11 8K re: exec changes including departure of Sallie Krawcheck
9/1/11 8K re: Amend Cert of Inc to designate Pref. Shares sold to Berkshire Hathaway for $5 bil

Boeing BA: 11/14/11 8K re: $2.3 bil revolving credit agrmt.
11/1/11 8K re: exec changes
10/26/11 10Q for Qtr ended 9/30/11
10/26/11 8K re: 3Qtr results
10/4/11 8K re: election of ex-Contintel CEO Larry Kellner as Director
9/30/11 8K & 8KA re: frequency of shareholder advisory votes

Caterpiller CAT: 11/18/11 8K re: past 3 monts dealer stats
11/4/11 10Q for Qtr ended 9/30
10/24/11 8K re: 3 month dealer stats
10/24/11 8K re: results for quarter ended 9/30/11
9/30/11 8K re: price increases
9/29/11 8K re: 3 month dealer stats
9/20/11 8KA 3 Mos dealer stats thru Aug
9/16/11 re: credit agreement

Chevron CVX: 11/3/11 10Q for Qtr ended 9/30/11
10/28/11 8K re: 3Qtr results
10/11 8K re: 3Qtr results
9/7/11 8K/A re: frequency of shareholder advisory votes

Cisco CSCO 11/22/11 10Q & 8K for Qtr ended 10/29
10/18/11 14A proxy (two) re: Annual Shareholder Meeting to be held 12/7/11 at Santa Clara, CA
9/20/11 8K re: contract with Exec VP Wim Elfrink
9/14/11 10K for year ended 7/30/11

Coke KO 11/10/11 Prospectus re: exchange of $1.6 bil of 2016 Notes
10/28/11 S-4 re: exchange of 3.3% Notes due '21 for 1.8% Notes due '16
10/27/11 10Q for Qtr ended 9/30/11
10/18/11 8K re: 3Qtr results
9/1/11 8K re: issuance of senior notes

Disney DIS 11/23/11 10K & 11/10/11 8K re: results for fiscal year ened 10/1/11
10/25/11 8K re: resignation of Director John E. Bryson to become U.S. Secretary of Commerce
10/7/11 8K re: extension of CEO Robert A. Iger's employment contract

DuPont DD: 11/22/11 8K : re: election of Lee M. Thomas as Director
10/25/11 10Q & 8K re: results for 3Qtr ended 9/30/11

ExxonMobil XOM: 11/29/11 8K re: exec changes
11/3/11 10Q for Qtr ended 9/30/11
10/27/11 8K re: 3Qtr results

GE: 11/8/11 10Q for Qtr ended 9/30/11
10/21/11 8K re: 3Qtr results
9/13/11 8K re: redemption of shares held by Berkshire Hathaway for $3.3 bil

Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 11/8/11 10Q & 11/21/11 8K re: results of year and Qtr ended 10/31/11
11/17/11 8K re: election of Ralph V. Whitworth to Board of Dirs
10/27/11 8K re: decision to keep PC unit
10/3/11 8K re: acceptance of offers to acquire Autonomy
9/29/11 8K re: separation contract with ex-CEO Leo Apotheker
9/28/11 8K re foreign antitrust approval of acquisition of Autonomy
9/22/11 8K re: replacement of CEO Leo Apotheker with Meg Whitman effective immediately
9/19/11 8KA & 8K re: issuance of flotaing global notes
9/13/11 8K re: purchase of Autonomy Corp.
9/9/11 10Q for quarter ended 7/31/11

Home Depot HD: 11/29/11 10Q & 11/15/11 8K re: results of Qtr ended 10/31/11
9/1/11 10Q for quarter ended 7/31/11

Intel INTC: 11/4/11 10Q for Qtr ended 10/1/11
10/19/11 & 10/18/11 8Ks re: Results for Qtr ended 10/1/11
9/19/11 & 9/14/11 8Ks re; offering of $5 bil of notes

IBM: 11/14/11 8K re: $10 bil Credit Agrmt
10/31/11 8K re: offering of $1.85 bil of debt
10/26/11 8K re: election of Virginia M. Rometty as CEO
10/25/11 8K re: election of David Farr, CEO of Emerson, to Bd.
10/25/11 10Q & 10/18/11 8K & 10/17/11 8K re: results for Qtr ended 9/30/11

JPMorganChase JPM: 11/8/11 8K re: election of James A. Bell as Dir.
11/4 28ks & 10Q re: Qtr ended 9/30/11
10/26/11 8K re: offering of $1.75 mil of 4.35% Notes due '21
10/13/11 8K re: 3Qtr results
9/30/11 8K re: reorganiz. of Retail Fin'l Services & Card Business segments
9/13/11 8K re: FD Disclosure re: guidance given at investor conference

Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 11/30/11 8K re: purchase of synthes & offer to hire its CEO
11/22/11 8K re: exec changes
11/8/11 10Q for Qtr ended 10/2
10/27/11 S-4 re: acquisition of Synthes
10/18/11 8K re: results for Qtr ended 10/2/11

Kraft KFT: 11/4/11 10Q & 11/2/11 8K re: Qtr ended 9/30/11
9/7/11 8K re: FD Disclosure re: presentation at investor conference

McDonald's MCD: 11/14/11 8K re: Investor Release re: Growth Plans
11/8/11 8K re: Oct sales
11/4/11 10Q for Qtr ended 9/30/11
10/21/11 8K re: results for 3Qtr ended 9/30/11
9/30/11 8K re: issuance of $500 mil med-term notes
9/26/11 8K re; declaration of quarterly cash dividend
9/12/11 8K re: August sales

Merck MRK: 12/1/11 8K re: election of CEO Ken Frazier to Bd & retirement of former CEO Richard Clark from Board
11/10/11 8K & 11/8/11 10Q re Investor Presentation re results for Qtr ended 9/30/11
10/28/11 8K re: results for 3Qtr
10/12/11 8K/A re: frequency of shareholder advisory votes on exec comp

Microsoft MSFT: 11/17/11 8K re: votings results from Annual Shareholder Meeting
10/20/11 10Q & 8K re: results for Qtr ended 9/30/11
10/18/11 & 10/4/11 & 10/3/11 14A Proxies re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held 11/15/11 at Bellevue, Wash.

Pfizer PFE: 11/10/11 10Q & 11/1/11 8K for Qtr ended 10/2/11

Procter & Gamble PG: 11/3/11 8K re: Guidance
11/1/11 8K re: delay of sale of Pringles to Diamond Food
10/27/11 10Q & 8Ks (two) re: results of 3 Qtr ended 9/30/11
10/14/11 8K re: voting results of annual meeting of shareholders
10/11/11 *K re: quarterly dividend of 52.5 cents
10/11/11 CEO's Bob McDonald speech at annual shareholders meeting
10/6/11 8K re: political contribution policy
9/7/11 Def. 14A Proxy Material re: voting recommendations for directors

3M MMM: 11/3/11 10Q re Qtr ended 9/30/11
11/3/11 8K re: pre-arranged stock trading plan for an exec
10/25/11 8K re: results of 3Qtr
9/29/11 8K re: offer of $4 bil of notes
9/8/11 8K re: Distribution Agrmt with Goldman Sachs re: $3 bil of notes

Travelers TRV: 10/19/11 10Q & 8K re: results for Qtr ended 9/30/11
9/20/11 8K/A re: frequency of non-binding advisory shareholder votes

United Technologies UTX: 11/16/11 8K re: edemption of $500 mil of 6/1% Notes due 5/15/12
11/15/11 8K re: $15 bil Credit Agrmt
10/24/11 10Q & 10/19/11 8K re: results for Qtr ended 9/30/11
10/18/11 8K re: Pratt & Whitney & Rolls Royce partnership to develop next generation engines for mid-size aircraft
9/29/11 8K re: exec personnel changes
9/23/11 8K & Def. 14A Proxy Material re: acquisition of Goodrich

Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 10/25/11 10Q & 10/21/11 8K re: results for Qtr ended 9/30/11
9/14/11 8K re: presentation to Merrill Lynch Media, Communication & Entertainment Conf.

WalMart WMT: 11/15/11 8K re: results for 3 & 9 months ended 10/31/11
9/29/11 8K re: adoption of Deferred Com Plan
9/27/11 8K re: retirement of Vice-Chair Eduardo Castro-Wright
9/1/11 10Q for quarter ended 7/31/11