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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Monday at 12,695.35 down 125.25 or 0.98% from Friday's close of 12,820.6. Of the 30 Dow components 2 gained and 28 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise were Cisco and Merck and percentage-wise was Cisco. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was Caterpillar and percentage-wise was JPMorgan.
MarketWatch
Monday 4:15 by Laura Mandauro says U.S. stocks dropped sharply Monday, ending at their lowest levels in over three
months, as investors dumped stocks on the prospects of a euro-zone
break-up and a drop in financials after J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s JPM
-3.17%
trading loss last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA
-0.98%
fell 125.25 points, or 1%, to 12,695.35, the eighth drop in nine
sessions and the lowest close since Jan. 31. The S&P 500 SPX
-1.11%
fell 15.04 points, or 1.1%, to 1,338.35, the lowest since Feb. 2. The Nasdaq Composite COMP
-1.06%
fell 31.24 points, or 1.1%, to 2,902.58. The likelihood Greece would
have to call new elections, putting its rescue package and euro
membership in jeopardy, stoked a rush to safehavens like the dollar and
U.S. Treasurys on Monday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Monday at 12,695.35 down 125.25 or 0.98% from Friday's close of 12,820.6. Of the 30 Dow components 2 gained and 28 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise were Cisco and Merck and percentage-wise was Cisco. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was Caterpillar and percentage-wise was JPMorgan.
As
of the open of the market on Monday the current divisor for the Dow
Jones Industrial Average found at page C4 of Monday's Wall St.
Journal is 0.132129493. Monday's trailing P/E ratio is 14.14 down
from Friday's trailing P/E ratio of 14.17 (year ago it was 14.49);
Monday's P/E estimate is 12.11 down from Friday's P/E estimate of
12.46 (year ago it was 12.75) and Monday's dividend yield is 2.66 up
from Friday's dividend yield of 2.56 (last year it was 2.35). 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.
Monday's
Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,677.43 down 16.55
from Friday's closing numerator of 1,693.98. 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
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 $55.91 down $0.56 from
Friday's average closing price of $56.47. The median closing price of
Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $50.44 (DD/HD) down $0.52
from Friday's median closing price of $50.96. The lowest volume was
3M and the highest volume again was Bank of America.
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 $1,655 ($169,398 - $167,743).
Monday's Dow Closing Numbers:
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The following are excerpts from Monday morning's Blog.
MarketWatch
Friday 4:26 by Kate Gibson says U.S. stocks mostly fell Friday to a
second weekly decline as a rise in consumer sentiment failed to
outweigh J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s $2 billion trading loss .
J.P. Morgan's massive trading loss comes at a particularly sensitive
time — when the U.S. is finalizing the so-called Volcker rule. Down
1.7% for the week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA-0.27% fell 34.44 points, or 0.3%, at 12,820.60, with J.P. Morgan JPM-9.28%
its heaviest weight, off 9.3%. Jamie Dimon, J.P. Morgan Chase’s chief
executive, called the losses “self-inflicted” in revealing them late
Thursday. “The J.P. Morgan thing has leveled off. Like anything else, it
will blow over. It’s the strongest bank by far, and $2 billion is a
big deal, but we’ll weather this very easily,” said Chip Cobb,
portfolio manager at BMT Asset Management. The revelation by one of
the country’s largest banks “raises a new round of questions about bank
proprietary trading,” Fred Dickson, chief investment strategist at
Davidson Cos., wrote in emailed comments. It also puts “a handful of
banks in the penalty box until the next round of quarterly results hit
the tape in two months,” Dickson added. The S&P 500 Index SPX-0.34%
shed 4.60 points, or 0.3%, at 1,353.39, with financials getting hit
the hardest among its 10 sectors and the index tallying a weekly slide
of 1.2%. Helping lift technology shares, Nvidia Corp. NVDA+6.36%
reported quarterly revenue and an outlook that beat estimates. Shares
of the chip manufacturer rallied 6.4%. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP+0.01%
managed a fractional gain to close at 2,933.82, off 0.8% decline from
last Friday’s close. For every two shares that advanced three fell on
the New York Stock Exchange, where nearly 586 million shares traded.
Composite volume topped 3.8 billion. The Thomson Reuters/University of
Michigan preliminary index of consumer sentiment advanced to 77.8 from
76.4 in April. The gauge’s most recent reading is its highest since
January 2008. “This market needs confidence; any positive thing we can
get out of it will make the next two quarters look better,” said BMT’s
Cobb. Wall Street offered little reaction to a report from the Labor
Department that had producer prices falling 0.2% in April, with core
prices excluding food and energy up 0.2%.“The PPI was driven
lower by energy costs and crude, which is ultimately a positive for the
economy and industrials in particular,” said Simon Paterson, an
equity-research analyst at Brown Advisory.On Friday, both oil and gold finished at 2012 lows, with crude futures CLM2-1.52% losing 95 cents, or 1%, to end at $96.13 a barrel and gold futures GCM2-0.99% down $11.50, or 0.7%, to end at $1,584 an ounce, their lowest this year.
Monday's Dow News:
Dow: Barron's p34 "Mailbag" is a letter from John A/ Prestbo, the Editor and Exec. director of the Dow Jones Indexes saying it is not the job of the Dow committee to see that the index goes as high as possible. The letter makes a compelling case for the relevancy of the index as a reflection of the overall U.S. stock market.
AT&T: Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "AT&T and Verizon upgraded" says Credit Suisse boosted ratings on them due to new rules that limit how easily consumers can upgrade to new smartphones and because the firms are showing discipline in how they sell the subsidized devices.
Barron's p23 "The end of the traditional telcos" by Tiernan Ray says data such as emails, text messages and tweets is displacing phone calls. This will hurt AT&T and Verizon, which is working on a project with Skype that is owned by Microsoft. Cisco is eying the Wi-Fi offload market.
Alcoa: No mentions found.
American Expess: No mentions found.
Boeing: Barron's p18 "Bluer skies for Embraer" by Christopher Williams says Ebraer's shares trade at 10.4 times est. '13 earnings below the PE multiples of Boeng and EAD. Embraer is the 3rd largest comm'l aircraft maker in the world behind Boeing and EADS' Airbus unit.
Caterpillar: Barron's pM13 "A flight to safety, and little else" by Randall Forsyth says IBM tapped the debt market for $900 mil of 0.75% 3 year notes and a $600 mil of 7 year notes at 1.875%, a record low for that maturity. Caterpillar's stocks is off about 18% from its high earlier this year, it had no trouble selling 3 year notes at 1.375%. JPMorgan's $2 bil loss helped push the 10 year Treasury note to 1.84% due to the flight to safety.
Chevron: WSJ pA13 "Chevron's Ecuador morass" by Mary O'Grady says Chevron is in a fed court trying to say that and independent expert that testified again Chevron was bribed.
Cisco: Barron's p12 "Week review", Inv. Bus. Daily pB2 "Cisco warning raises IT fear", Barron's p24 "Views clash on tech outlays" by Mark Veverka say Cisco guided lower for the current quarter citing weaker IT spending.
Barron's p23 "The end of the traditional telcos" by Tiernan Ray says data such as emails, text messages and tweets is displacing phone calls. This will hurt AT&T and Verizon, which is working on a project with Skype that is owned by Microsoft. Cisco is eying the Wi-Fi offload market.
Coke: WSJ pB6 "An hisoric Pepsi recipe may see the light of day" by Mike Eserl says Coke's secret formula is in a vault but a heir of a Pepsi founder wants to reveal his family secrets which includes the formula. A NY court will decide if he can do so.
Inv. Bus. Daily pB10 "Coke nation outperforms in price, payouts" by Paul Whitfield says if Coca-Cola were a country, you could argue that its economically bigger than the GDP of almost 75 nations including Guatemala, Kenya and Panama. Coke has paid dividends every year since '20 and has increased the payout for 50 straight years. The current yield is 2.6%.
Disney: WSJ pB4 "Estimate box office figures" says Disney's Avengers was the op movie this weekend with $103.2 mil over the weekend and cumulative sales of $373.2 mil.
Barron's p13 "Week preview" says on Tuesday 5/15 ABC, owned by Disney, unveils its fall schedule. On Thurs, 5/17 Walmart Stores reports results before the market opens.
Barron's p14 "Even more magic in the Kingdom" says Disney's bet on Marvel paid off. Disney has to navigate the growth of video content on mobile devices and online and make online games profitable.
DuPont: No mentions found.
Exxon: No mentions found.
GE: WSJ pB7 "GE 3 Ex-workes found guilty in bid rigging case" Drew Fitzgerald says they did bid rigging in the muni markets.
Hewlett-Packard: Barron's p31 "Why Barclays and Hewlett-Packard are good bets" by lawrence Strauss is an interview with Charles Pohl & Diana Strandberg of Doge & Cox Int'l Stock Fund who like Hewlett-Packard since more than 60% of its sales come from outside the US, has a low valuation and is trading at 6 times this year's earnings estimates.
Home Depot: WSJ pC2 "Ticker" says on Tues. Home Depot reports earnings with earnings estimate of 64 cents a share vs 50 cents a year ago. Walmart reports on Thurs. with estimates of $1.04 a share vs. a year ago 98 cents.
Intel: Barron's p 27 "Like Father, like son" by Sarah Max, Barron's p13 "Still in the chips" by Shirley Lazo say Intel was named the top dividend stock of the nasdaq 100 by the Dividend Channel Website at dividendchannel.com. Intel did its third payout boost in 18 months on Mon by raising its quarterly payout 7% to 22.5 cents a share from 21 cents, giving it a 3.2% current yield. Max's article is an interview with Mark Oelschlager the Portfolio Manager of Red Oak Tech Select who likes Intel because Intel is the dominant player but has enough competition from AMD to keep the antitrust authorities away.
IBM: Barron's pM13 "A flight to safety, and little else" by Randall Forsyth says IBM tapped the debt market for $900 mil of 0.75% 3 year notes and a $600 mil of 7 year notes at 1.875%, a record low for that maturity. Caterpillar's stocks is off about 18% from its high earlier this year, it had no trouble selling 3 year notes at 1.375%. JPMorgan's $2 bil loss helped push the 10 year Treasury note to 1.84% due to the flight to safety.
JPMorgan: Fin Times p1 JPMorgan probe into London's role in loss" by Tom Braithwaite, Mon WST pA1 "Pressure builds on Dimon" by Dan Fitzpatrick, NYT pA21 Why we ergulate" by Paul Krugman, WSJ pA1 "JPMorgan Chief of investments is set to depart" by Nelson D. Schwartz, NYT pB1 "Banks tread a fine line in trading" by Peter Eavis, WSJ pC3 "JPMorgan Assessing the damage" articles by Scot Patterson and Robin Sidel, WSJ pC1 "Three to exit JPMorgan" by Dan Fitzpatrick, WSJ pC10 "Wall St wails at JPMorgan's problems" by David Reilly, & "Will bank pay up for the Inda Drew myster" by David Reilly,Barron's p12 "Week review", WSJ pA14 "The Dimon Principle" an editorial, Barron's p5 "Vulnerable dragon" by Alan Abelson, Inv. Bus. Daily pA1 "Big JPMorgan loss renews debate on curbing bank risk" by Jed Graham, Barron's p9 "Sesnation and sensationalized" by Michael Santoli, Sat. AJC pA2 "JPMorgan loss rekindles furor" say the SEC is investigating potential civil violations surrounding the $2 bil trading loss at JPMorgan.
Inv. Bus. Daily pB6 "Stocks finish down week in mostly quiet fashion" by Paul Whitfield says stocks had to swallow a negative fin'l surprise Fri but the indexes stayed calm under pressure. JPMorgan reported Thurs that it would lose $2 bil on a trade that backfired. Friday's action was the Nasdaq was flat as S&P 500 falls. The current outlook is the market is in a correction.
Barron's pM13 "A flight to safety, and little else" by Randall Forsyth says IBM tapped the debt market for $900 mil of 0.75% 3 year notes and a $600 mil of 7 year notes at 1.875%, a record low for that maturity. Caterpillar's stocks is off about 18% from its high earlier this year, it had no trouble selling 3 year notes at 1.375%. JPMorgan's $2 bil loss helped push the 10 year Treasury note to 1.84% due to the flight to safety. No mentions found.
Johnson & Johnson: No mentions found.
Kraft: No mentions found.
McDonald's: No mentions found.
Merck: No mentions found.
| Symbol | Last Sale | Change | % Change | Share Volume | Market |
| T |  | NYSE | |||
| AA | | NYSE | |||
| AXP | | NYSE | |||
| BAC | | NYSE | |||
| BA | | NYSE | |||
| CAT | | NYSE | |||
| CVX | | NYSE | |||
| CSCO |  | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| KO | | NYSE | |||
| DIS | | NYSE | |||
| DD | | NYSE | |||
| XOM | | NYSE | |||
| GE | | NYSE | |||
| HPQ | | NYSE | |||
| HD | | NYSE | |||
| INTC | | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| IBM | | NYSE | |||
| JPM | | NYSE | |||
| JNJ | | NYSE | |||
| KFT | | NYSE | |||
| MCD | | NYSE | |||
| MRK | | NYSE | |||
| MSFT | | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| PFE | | NYSE |
| PG | | NYSE | |||
| MMM | | NYSE | |||
| TRV | | NYSE | |||
| UTX | | NYSE | |||
| VZ | | DualListed | |||
| WMT | | NYSE |
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The following are excerpts from Monday morning's Blog.
A
read of the print editions of Monday's Barron's, Investor's
Business Daily,Wall St. Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, USA Today & Boston Globe 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 a separate table of Dow component's symbol
and Friday's stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.
Dow Jones Industrial Average The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 12,820.6 down 34.44 or
0.27 from Thursday's close of 12,835.06. For the week the Dow is down
217.67 or 1.67% from last Friday's close of 13,038.27. For the year
the Dow is up 4.94%. Of the 30 Dow components 12 gained and 18
declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was Verizon and
percentage-wise was Intel. The biggest decliner dollar-wise and
percentage-wise was JPMorgan Chase.
Inv. Bus. Daily pB6 "Stocks finish down week in mostly quiet fashion" by Paul Whitfield says stocks had to swallow a negative fin'l surprise Fri but the indexes stayed calm under pressure. JPMorgan reported Thurs that it would lose $2 bil on a trade that backfired. Friday's action was the Nasdaq was flat as S&P 500 falls. The current outlook is the market is in a correction.
Inv. Bus. Daily pB6 "Stocks finish down week in mostly quiet fashion" by Paul Whitfield says stocks had to swallow a negative fin'l surprise Fri but the indexes stayed calm under pressure. JPMorgan reported Thurs that it would lose $2 bil on a trade that backfired. Friday's action was the Nasdaq was flat as S&P 500 falls. The current outlook is the market is in a correction.
Friday's
Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,693.98 down 4.55
from Thursday's closing numerator of 1,698.53. 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 $56.47 down $0.15 from
Thursday's average closing price of $56.62. The median closing price of
Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $50.96 (DD/HD) down $0.36
from Thursday's median closing price of $51.32. The lowest volume was
United Technologies and the highest volume again was Bank of America.
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 $45 ($169,853 - $169,398).
Monday's Dow News:
Dow: Barron's p34 "Mailbag" is a letter from John A/ Prestbo, the Editor and Exec. director of the Dow Jones Indexes saying it is not the job of the Dow committee to see that the index goes as high as possible. The letter makes a compelling case for the relevancy of the index as a reflection of the overall U.S. stock market.
AT&T: Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "AT&T and Verizon upgraded" says Credit Suisse boosted ratings on them due to new rules that limit how easily consumers can upgrade to new smartphones and because the firms are showing discipline in how they sell the subsidized devices.
Barron's p23 "The end of the traditional telcos" by Tiernan Ray says data such as emails, text messages and tweets is displacing phone calls. This will hurt AT&T and Verizon, which is working on a project with Skype that is owned by Microsoft. Cisco is eying the Wi-Fi offload market.
Alcoa: No mentions found.
American Expess: No mentions found.
Boeing: Barron's p18 "Bluer skies for Embraer" by Christopher Williams says Ebraer's shares trade at 10.4 times est. '13 earnings below the PE multiples of Boeng and EAD. Embraer is the 3rd largest comm'l aircraft maker in the world behind Boeing and EADS' Airbus unit.
Caterpillar: Barron's pM13 "A flight to safety, and little else" by Randall Forsyth says IBM tapped the debt market for $900 mil of 0.75% 3 year notes and a $600 mil of 7 year notes at 1.875%, a record low for that maturity. Caterpillar's stocks is off about 18% from its high earlier this year, it had no trouble selling 3 year notes at 1.375%. JPMorgan's $2 bil loss helped push the 10 year Treasury note to 1.84% due to the flight to safety.
Chevron: WSJ pA13 "Chevron's Ecuador morass" by Mary O'Grady says Chevron is in a fed court trying to say that and independent expert that testified again Chevron was bribed.
Cisco: Barron's p12 "Week review", Inv. Bus. Daily pB2 "Cisco warning raises IT fear", Barron's p24 "Views clash on tech outlays" by Mark Veverka say Cisco guided lower for the current quarter citing weaker IT spending.
Barron's p23 "The end of the traditional telcos" by Tiernan Ray says data such as emails, text messages and tweets is displacing phone calls. This will hurt AT&T and Verizon, which is working on a project with Skype that is owned by Microsoft. Cisco is eying the Wi-Fi offload market.
Coke: WSJ pB6 "An hisoric Pepsi recipe may see the light of day" by Mike Eserl says Coke's secret formula is in a vault but a heir of a Pepsi founder wants to reveal his family secrets which includes the formula. A NY court will decide if he can do so.
Inv. Bus. Daily pB10 "Coke nation outperforms in price, payouts" by Paul Whitfield says if Coca-Cola were a country, you could argue that its economically bigger than the GDP of almost 75 nations including Guatemala, Kenya and Panama. Coke has paid dividends every year since '20 and has increased the payout for 50 straight years. The current yield is 2.6%.
Disney: WSJ pB4 "Estimate box office figures" says Disney's Avengers was the op movie this weekend with $103.2 mil over the weekend and cumulative sales of $373.2 mil.
Barron's p13 "Week preview" says on Tuesday 5/15 ABC, owned by Disney, unveils its fall schedule. On Thurs, 5/17 Walmart Stores reports results before the market opens.
Barron's p14 "Even more magic in the Kingdom" says Disney's bet on Marvel paid off. Disney has to navigate the growth of video content on mobile devices and online and make online games profitable.
DuPont: No mentions found.
Exxon: No mentions found.
GE: WSJ pB7 "GE 3 Ex-workes found guilty in bid rigging case" Drew Fitzgerald says they did bid rigging in the muni markets.
Hewlett-Packard: Barron's p31 "Why Barclays and Hewlett-Packard are good bets" by lawrence Strauss is an interview with Charles Pohl & Diana Strandberg of Doge & Cox Int'l Stock Fund who like Hewlett-Packard since more than 60% of its sales come from outside the US, has a low valuation and is trading at 6 times this year's earnings estimates.
Home Depot: WSJ pC2 "Ticker" says on Tues. Home Depot reports earnings with earnings estimate of 64 cents a share vs 50 cents a year ago. Walmart reports on Thurs. with estimates of $1.04 a share vs. a year ago 98 cents.
Intel: Barron's p 27 "Like Father, like son" by Sarah Max, Barron's p13 "Still in the chips" by Shirley Lazo say Intel was named the top dividend stock of the nasdaq 100 by the Dividend Channel Website at dividendchannel.com. Intel did its third payout boost in 18 months on Mon by raising its quarterly payout 7% to 22.5 cents a share from 21 cents, giving it a 3.2% current yield. Max's article is an interview with Mark Oelschlager the Portfolio Manager of Red Oak Tech Select who likes Intel because Intel is the dominant player but has enough competition from AMD to keep the antitrust authorities away.
IBM: Barron's pM13 "A flight to safety, and little else" by Randall Forsyth says IBM tapped the debt market for $900 mil of 0.75% 3 year notes and a $600 mil of 7 year notes at 1.875%, a record low for that maturity. Caterpillar's stocks is off about 18% from its high earlier this year, it had no trouble selling 3 year notes at 1.375%. JPMorgan's $2 bil loss helped push the 10 year Treasury note to 1.84% due to the flight to safety.
JPMorgan: Fin Times p1 JPMorgan probe into London's role in loss" by Tom Braithwaite, Mon WST pA1 "Pressure builds on Dimon" by Dan Fitzpatrick, NYT pA21 Why we ergulate" by Paul Krugman, WSJ pA1 "JPMorgan Chief of investments is set to depart" by Nelson D. Schwartz, NYT pB1 "Banks tread a fine line in trading" by Peter Eavis, WSJ pC3 "JPMorgan Assessing the damage" articles by Scot Patterson and Robin Sidel, WSJ pC1 "Three to exit JPMorgan" by Dan Fitzpatrick, WSJ pC10 "Wall St wails at JPMorgan's problems" by David Reilly, & "Will bank pay up for the Inda Drew myster" by David Reilly,Barron's p12 "Week review", WSJ pA14 "The Dimon Principle" an editorial, Barron's p5 "Vulnerable dragon" by Alan Abelson, Inv. Bus. Daily pA1 "Big JPMorgan loss renews debate on curbing bank risk" by Jed Graham, Barron's p9 "Sesnation and sensationalized" by Michael Santoli, Sat. AJC pA2 "JPMorgan loss rekindles furor" say the SEC is investigating potential civil violations surrounding the $2 bil trading loss at JPMorgan.
Inv. Bus. Daily pB6 "Stocks finish down week in mostly quiet fashion" by Paul Whitfield says stocks had to swallow a negative fin'l surprise Fri but the indexes stayed calm under pressure. JPMorgan reported Thurs that it would lose $2 bil on a trade that backfired. Friday's action was the Nasdaq was flat as S&P 500 falls. The current outlook is the market is in a correction.
Barron's pM13 "A flight to safety, and little else" by Randall Forsyth says IBM tapped the debt market for $900 mil of 0.75% 3 year notes and a $600 mil of 7 year notes at 1.875%, a record low for that maturity. Caterpillar's stocks is off about 18% from its high earlier this year, it had no trouble selling 3 year notes at 1.375%. JPMorgan's $2 bil loss helped push the 10 year Treasury note to 1.84% due to the flight to safety. No mentions found.
Johnson & Johnson: No mentions found.
Kraft: No mentions found.
McDonald's: No mentions found.
Merck: No mentions found.
Microsoft: Barron's p23 "The end of the traditional telcos" by Tiernan Ray says
data such as emails, text messages and tweets is displacing phone
calls. This will hurt AT&T and Verizon, which is working on a
project with Skype that is owned by Microsoft. Cisco is eying the Wi-Fi
offload market.
Pfizer: No mentions found.
Procter & Gamble: No mentions found.
3M: No mentions found.
Travelers: No mentions found.
United Technologies: No mentions found.
Verizon: Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "AT&T and Verizon upgraded" says Credit Suisse boosted ratings on them due to new rules that limit how easily consumers can upgrade to new smartphones and because the firms are showing discipline in how they sell the subsidized devices.
Barron's p23 "The end of the traditional telcos" by Tiernan Ray says data such as emails, text messages and tweets is displacing phone calls. This will hurt AT&T and Verizon, which is working on a project with Skype that is owned by Microsoft. Cisco is eying the Wi-Fi offload market.
Walmart: NYT pA13 "Vemont towns have an image, and they say Dollar stores aren't part of it" by Abby Goodnough says Walmart has only 4 stores in Vermont, Target has none but the 24 Dollar General stores and other Dollar type stores are facing opposition in opening more stores.
Barron's p13 "Week preview" says on Tuesday 5/15 ABC, owned by Disney, unveils its fall schedule. On Thurs, 5/17 Walmart Stores reports results before the market opens.
Pfizer: No mentions found.
Procter & Gamble: No mentions found.
3M: No mentions found.
Travelers: No mentions found.
United Technologies: No mentions found.
Verizon: Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "AT&T and Verizon upgraded" says Credit Suisse boosted ratings on them due to new rules that limit how easily consumers can upgrade to new smartphones and because the firms are showing discipline in how they sell the subsidized devices.
Barron's p23 "The end of the traditional telcos" by Tiernan Ray says data such as emails, text messages and tweets is displacing phone calls. This will hurt AT&T and Verizon, which is working on a project with Skype that is owned by Microsoft. Cisco is eying the Wi-Fi offload market.
Walmart: NYT pA13 "Vemont towns have an image, and they say Dollar stores aren't part of it" by Abby Goodnough says Walmart has only 4 stores in Vermont, Target has none but the 24 Dollar General stores and other Dollar type stores are facing opposition in opening more stores.
Barron's p13 "Week preview" says on Tuesday 5/15 ABC, owned by Disney, unveils its fall schedule. On Thurs, 5/17 Walmart Stores reports results before the market opens.
Friday's Closing Dow Numbers:
| Symbol | Last Sale | Change | % Change | Share Volume | Market |
| T | | NYSE | |||
| AA | | NYSE | |||
| AXP | | NYSE | |||
| BAC | | NYSE | |||
| BA | | NYSE | |||
| CAT | | NYSE | |||
| CVX | | NYSE | |||
| CSCO | | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| KO | | NYSE | |||
| DIS | | NYSE | |||
| DD | | NYSE | |||
| XOM | | NYSE | |||
| GE | | NYSE | |||
| HPQ | | NYSE | |||
| HD | | NYSE | |||
| INTC | | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| IBM | | NYSE | |||
| JPM | | NYSE | |||
| JNJ | | NYSE | |||
| KFT | | NYSE | |||
| MCD | | NYSE | |||
| MRK | | NYSE | |||
| MSFT | | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| PFE | | NYSE |
| PG | | NYSE | |||
| MMM | | NYSE | |||
| TRV | | NYSE | |||
| UTX | | NYSE | |||
| VZ | | DualListed | |||
| WMT | | 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. (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 (Armonk, NY)
JPMorgan Chase JPM Jamie Dimon (NY, NY)
Johnson & Johnson JNJ Alex Gorsky (New Brunswick, NJ)
Kraft KFT Irene Rosenfeld (Northfield, Ill.)
McDonald's MCD Jim Skinner to be replaced July 1 by Don Thompson (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 Inge Thulin (St. Paul, MN)
Travelers TRV Jay S. Fishman (NY, NY)
United Technologies UTX Louis Chenevert (Hartford, CT)
Verizon VZ Lowell McAdam (NY, NY)
Wal-Mart WMT Mike Duke (Bentonville, ARK)
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Here
are the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 as of 4/15/12 ranked in order
of market capitalization rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion followed
by number of shares outstanding rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:
1. Exxon Mobil XOM $4391 [5]
2. Microsoft MSFT 258.5 [8.5]
3. IBM 235 [1]
4. WalMart WMT 203.5 [3.5]
5. GE 200 [10.5]
6. Chevron CVX 199 [2]
7. Procter & Gamble PG 181 [3]
8. AT&T T 181 [6]
9. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 175 [3]
10. JPMorgan Chase JPM 165 [4]
11. Pfizer PFE 164.5 [7.5]
12. Coke KO 162 [2.5]
13. Intel INTC 140.5 [5]
14. Merck MRK 115 [3]
15. Cisco CSCO 107 [5.5]
16. Verizon VZ 104.5 [3]
17. McDonald's MCD 98.5 [1]
18. Bank of America BAC 93.5 [10.5]
19. Home Depot HD 77.5 [1.5]
20. Disney DIS 75 [2]
21. United Technologies UTX 72.5 [1]
22. Caterpillar CAT 68.5 [.5]
23. American Express AXP 67 [1]
24. Kraft KFT 66 [2]
25. 3M MMM 59.5 [.5]
26. Boeing BA 54.5 [1]
27. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 48.5 [2]
28. DuPont DD 48.5 [1]
29. Travelers TRV 22.5 [.5]
30. Alcoa AA 10.5 [1]
Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 4/15/12:
Symbol & Co. Name/Date of Filing/Form Filed/ Comments
AT&T T:
3/12/12 Proxy Materials re: Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held
on 4/27/12 at 9 a.m. at Grand American Hotel, Salt lake City, Utah
2/29/12 8K re: redemption of 5.87% Notes due 5/15/12
2/24/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/21/12 Prelim Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Stockholders on 4/27/12 Grand America Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah
2/13 8K re: sale of $3 bil Global Notes
Alcoa AA: 4/11/12 8K re: 1Q results
3/12/12 & 3/1/12 Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 5/4/12 9:30 am, Fairmont Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA
2/28/12 10K/A & 2/16/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/26/12 8K re: amendment to bylaws re: notice to shareholders
American Express AXP:
3/26/12 8K re: dividend of 20 cents a share payable 5/10 to holders
at 4/5 & stock buyback plan of up to 150 mil shares
3/20 & 3/2/12 Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 4/30/12 9 am American Express HQ, NYC
3/15/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats thru 2/29
3/13/12 8K re: Comprehensive Capital Plan
2/29/12 & 2/24/12 10K/A & 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/15/12 8K re: Deling & write-off stats for 3 months ended 1/31/12
2/13/12 8K re: retirement of Director Dan Akerson
Bank of Am BAC: 4/11/12 8K re: reclassification of business segments
3/16/12 8K re: sale of preferred stock
2/23/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/10/12 8K re: settlement of mortgage abuse case with state & fed regulators
Boeing BA: 3/16/12 Proxy materials re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 4/30/12 10 am Field Museum, Chicago
2/29/12 8K re: grant of stock options to exec
2/9/12 10K for year ended 12/31/11
Caterpillar CAT: 4/12/12 8K re: election of fromer Utah Gov. and Ambassador Jon Huntsman to Board of Dirs.
4/11/12 Proxy materials re: Annual Meeting of Stockholders on 6/13/12 at 8 am, Marriott Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas
3/20/12 8K re: dealer stats thru 2/12
2/21/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/21/12 8K re: Jan '12 dealer stats
Chevron CVX: 4/12/12 & 3/29/12 Proxy material re: Annual Meeting og stockholders on 4/4/12 9:30 am HQ, San Ramon, CA
4/10/12 8K re: 1Q update
3/29/12
8K & Proxy materials re: amendment of bylaws re: litigation
in Delaware courts, raise of CEO and other execs' salaries and
election of Charles "Wick" Moorman to Board of Dirs.
2/23/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
Cisco CSCO : 3/27/12 8K re: execs' pre-arranged stock trading plans
3/15/12 8K re: acquisition of NDS Group Ltd, a provider of video software for $5 bil
2/21/12 10Q for Qtr ended 1/28/12
2/17/12 8K re: $3 bil credit agreement with Bank of America
2/8/12 8K re: 2Q results
Coke KO 3/14/12 8K re: closing of sale of over $1 bil of notes
3/8/12 Proxy materials re Annual meeting of shareowners 4/15/12 9:30 am Cobb Galeria, Atlanta
2/23/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/21/12 8K re: election of Robert A. Kotick as Dir.
2/15/12 8K re: adoption of restricted stock plan
2/7/12 8K re: 4Q & full year '11 results
Disney DIS 3/16/12 8K re: amendment to 2011 Stock Incentive Plan
2/13/12 8K re: sale of $1 bil of 1.125% Global Notes due '17
2/7/12 10Q for 12/31/11
2/7/12 8K re: 1Q results
DuPont DD: 4/3/12 & 3/16/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of stockholders 4/25/12 10:30 am HQ Wilmington, Del
3/15/12 8K re: retirement of William K. Reilly from Board of Dirs.
2/9/12 10K re: FY ended 12/31/11
ExxonMobil XOM: 4/12/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders 5/30/12 9 am Meyerson Center, Dallas
3/28/12 8K re: Fin'l Operations review info on website
3/14/12 8K re: transcript of 3/8 analysts meeting
2/29/12 8K re: election of Henrietta H. Fore as Dir.
2/24/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/23/12 8K re: worldwide proved oil & gas reserves
GE: 4/9/12 & 3/9/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 4/25/12 10 am Detroit Marriott
4/6/12 8K re: downgrade of GE senior unsecured debt rating by Moodys from Aa2 to aa3 and other downgrade
3/16/12 8K re: GE Capital segment fin'l info as of 12/31/11
1/20/12 8K re: 2/24/12 10K re: FY ended 12/31/11
Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 3/23/12 8K re: exec changes and amendment to bylaws decreasing Board of Dirs from 14 to 11
3/12/12 10Q for Qtr ended 1/31/12
3/12/12 8K re: underwriting of $2 bil of Global Notes
2/22/12 8K re: 1Q results ended 1/31/12
2/3/12 Proxy re: 3/21/12 Annual meeting of shareholders at Santa Clara, CA Convention Ctr.
Home Depot HD:
4/2/12 Proxy material and 10K for year ended 1/29/12 and material re:
Annual meeting of shareholders on 5/17 at 9 am at Cobb Galeria,
Atlanta
2/21/12 8K re: FY '11 results & FY '12 guidance
Intel INTC: 4/4/12 Proxy material re: annual stockhodles meeting 5/17/12 8:30 am HQ, Santa Clara, CA
2/28/12 8K re: expansion of JV with Micron Tech for flash memory
2/23/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/9/12 8K re: settlement of antitrust case brought by NY Atty Gen'l
IBM:
3/22/12 & 3/12/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of
stockholders on 4/24/12 10 am Charleston Convention Center, S.C.
2/28/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/9/12 8K re: underwriting agreement for 2.2% Notes due '17
2/3/12 8K re: underwriting agreement for notes due '15 - '17
2/3/12 8K re: exec salaries for top 5 execs
JPMorganChase JPM: 4/13/12 2 8Ks re: fin'l info on website & 1Q results
4/4/12 Proxy material re: annual meeting of shareholders 5/15/12 at JPM campus in Tampa, Fl
4/4/12 8K re: annual report on website
3/29/12 8K re: Reg. statement re: Global Med. Term Notes'
3/27/12 8K re: changes to Board of Dirs: election of Tim Flynn and retirement of William Gray & David Novak
3/14/12 8K re: dividend of 30 cents payable 4/30 to record holders as of 4/5 and $15 bil share buyback program
3/1/12 8K re: 2/28/12 Investor Day Presentation
2/29/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/9/12 8K re: global settlement of mortgage foreclosure suits brought by state & fed regulators
Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 4/9/12 8K re: resignation of Vice Chair of Board, Sheri S. McCoy to join Avon as CEO
4/3/12 & 3/14/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of Shareholders on 4/26/12 10 am Grand Hyatt New Brunswick, NJ
3/28/12 8K re: new format for sales results
2/23/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/21/12 8K re: election of Alex Gorsky as CEO & Dir as of 4/26/12
Kraft KFT:
4/2/12 & 3/23/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of
shareholders on 5/23/12 at North Shore Performing Arts Center in Skokie,
Ill.
3/20/12 8K re: $2.1 bil of costs and expenses re: spin-off of N. Amer. grocery business
3/15/12 8K re: nominations of Terry Lundgren & Jorge Mesquita to Board of Dirs.
3/14/12 8K re: revolving credit agreement
2/27/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/21/12 2 8Ks re: '11 operating results & 4Q results
McDonald's MCD: 4/13/12 & 3/7/12 Proxy materials re: annual meeting of shareholders on 5/24/12 at HQ at Oak Brook, Ill.
3/26/12 8K re: retirement of James Skinner as CEO effective 6/30/12 and his replacement as CEO of Donald Thompson
3/8/12 8K re: Feb. '12 sales results
3/7/12 Prelim Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 5/24/12 at McDonald's HQ Oak Brook, Ill.
2/24/11 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/10/12 8K re: grant of exec stock options
2/8/12 8K re: Jan '12 sales
2/7/12 8K re: issuance of $750 mil med term notes
Merck MRK: 4/12/12 Proxy materials re: annual meeting of Shareholders on 5/22/12 8:30 am at Bridgewater Marriott in NJ
3/30/12 8K re: Retirement from Board of Dirs of Steven Goldstone & Harry Jacobson
2/28/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/11
2/9/12 8K re: Dr. Thomas Shenk retiring from Board of Dirs.
2/2/12 8K re: full year & 4Q results 12/31/11
Microsoft MSFT: 2/27/12 8K re: election of John W. Thompson as Dir.
1/27/12 10Q/A & 1/19/12 10Q for year ended 12/31/11
1/19/12 8K re: 2Q 12/31/11 results
Pfizer PFE: 3/15/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders 4/26/12 8:30 am Westin Governor Morris, Morristown, NJ
2/28/12 10K for FY ended 12/31/12
1/31/12 8K re: 4Q & full year 12/31/11 results
Procter & Gamble PG: 4/13/12 8K re: dividend of 0.562 cents payable 5/15/12 to record holders at 4/27
2/23/12 8K re: Consumer Analyst Conference slides 2/23/12
2/15/12 8K re: sale of Pringles to Kellogg for $2.7 bil in cash
2/10/12 8K re: restructuring of Beauty & Grooming Global Business Unit
2/6/12 8K re: issuance of $2 bil 2.3% & floating rate notes
3M MMM: 3/21/12 Proxy materials re: annual meeting of stockhodlers 5/8/12 10 am River Centre, St. Paul, Minn
2 8ks 2/21/12 & 2 8ks 2/16/12 re: exec pre-arranged stock trading plans
2/16/12 10K FY 12/31/11
2/8/12 8K re: Inge G. Thulin replacing George W. Buckley as CEO on 2/24/12
Travelers TRV: 4/10/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 5/23/12 11 am Hartford, Marriott
2/16/12 10K FY 12/31/11
United Technologies UTX: 4/13/12 8K re: retriement of charles Lee from Board of Dirs.
3/22/12 & 2/24/12 Proxy materials re: 4/11/12 Annual Meeting of Shareholders Riviera Theatre Charleston, SC
3/15/12 8K re: structure for proposed Goodrich acquisition
2/17/12 8K re: election of Pedro Baranda as Pres. of Otis Elevator
2/9/12 10K for year ended 12/31/11
Verizon Communications Inc. VZ:
4/2/12 & 3/19/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of
shareholders on 5/3/12 at 10:30 at Von Braun Center, Huntsville, Al.
2/24/12 10K FY 12/31/11
WalMart WMT: 3/27/12 10K for year ended 1/31/12
2/21/12 8K re: 4Q results
1/25/12 8K re: election of Rosalind Brewer as CEO of Sam's Club
12/8/11 8K re registration rights agreement with certain selling shareholders
12/8/11 10Q for qtr ended 10/1/11
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