Saturday, June 30, 2012

6/30/12 Sat. Boeing Rips Airbus US Plans


Post No. 1,703 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, and a recent ranking of the Dow 30 components by market capitalization as of 6/20/12 and Dow 30 components' SEC filings as of 6/20/12.

A read of the print editions of Monday's Barron's & Investor's Business Daily and the combined Saturday and Sunday issues of each of the Wall St. Journal &amp  Financial Times, & Saturday's   New York Times & Atlanta Journal Constitution &amp 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 Average The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 12,880.09 up 277.83 or 2.2.2% from Thursday's close of 12,602.26.  For the week the Dow was up 239.31 points or 1.90 % from last Friday's close of 12,640.78.  For the year the Dow is up 5.42%. Of the 30 Dow components 29  gained and only JPMorgan  declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was IBM up $4.18 and percentage-wise was Bank of America up 5.68% . The only and therefore biggest decliner dollar-wise  and percentage-wise was JPMorgan down 15 cents or 0.42%.

Fin Times p1 "Markets rebound following EU deal" by Hugh Carnegy says fin'l markets rebounded strongly Fri after European leaders struck an unexpectedly detailed deal to help Spain & Italy face down fears about their ability to survive the eurozone crisis.

Inv. Bus. Daily pB6 "Stocks leap in fast trade, signaling market uptrend" by Paul Whitfield says stocks rumbled higher on news from Europe Fri as 2 US indexes signaled an uptrend is under way.  Friday's action was a floolw through day on S&P 500 & NYSE composite.

Sat. WSJ pB4 "this Junhe was a boon, now a swoon" by Matt jarzemsky says the S&P posted its biggest daily gain of the year and sotcks' best June in more than a decade as investors cheered European leaders' progress on the region's debt problems.

Fin Times p13 "Oil and gas drilelrs among the biggest S&P winners" by Anora Mahmudova says Bank of America rose 0.9%.

NYT pB1 "markets cheer Europe's bailout plan" by Nathaniel Popper says it was the relief rally that ivnestors were waiting for as a new plan to tackle the European banking crisis sent stock markets in many nations to their best day of the year on Fri.

As of the close of the market on Friday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page B5 of Saturday's Wall St. Journal is 0.132129493. Saturday's trailing P/E ratio is 14.10 up from Friday's trailing P/E ratio of 13.89  (year ago it was 14.32); Saturday's P/E estimate is 12.19 up from Friday's P/E estimate of 12.15 (year ago it was 12.54) and Saturday's dividend yield is 2.60 down from Friday's dividend yield of 2.67 (last year it was 2.4). 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 1,701.84 up 36.71  from  Thursday's closing numerator of 1,665.13. 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  Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $56.73 up $1.23 from Thursday's average closing price of $55.50. The median closing price of  Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $51.78 (HD/DD) up $1.05 from Thursday's median closing price of $50.73. The lowest volume was Travelers 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 made $3,671 ($170,184 - $166,513).

MarketWatch Fri. 4:48  pm by Kate Gibson says U.S. stocks leapt on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average posting its best month of the year, after Europe agreed on steps to bolster the economies of its more troubled nations.The European Union summit in Brussels had policy makers agreeing to relax repayment conditions for Spanish banks and to lower the bar to possible aid to Italy, along with proposing a $149 billion economic-growth plan for the region.“‘Let’s throw more money at it’ is essentially their plan, and, ‘Hopefully we’ll be in a better position to pay it back at some date in the future.’ It’s making people feel like they got something, but it doesn’t really address the problem,” said Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at Banyan Partners.“It’s a minor good thing; the amount of money they’ll be paying to borrow is reduced, and the potential for default is reduced, but it just addresses the near short-term issue,” added Pavlik, who believes the European Union needs economic reforms to address the underlying causes.“The corruption and backwards way of doing things in these countries is part of what led up to this, with people avoiding paying taxes and no communication within departments of governments.”Stocks rose and Spanish and Italian bonds rallied after the EU summit provided bits of good news, BP’s intentions over its Russian Venture are questioned and a preview of the Euro 2012 soccer final between Italy and Spain.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA +2.20%  rose 277.83 points, or 2.2%, to 12,880.09, with Bank of America Corp. BAC +5.68%  leading the rise.The blue-chip index is up 1.9% for the week; up 3.9% for the month; off 2.5% for the quarter; and up 5.4% for the year.The S&P 500 Index SPX +2.49%  added 33.12 points, or 2.5%, to 1,362.16, with industrials faring best among its 10 major sectors. The index is up 2% for the week; up 4% for June; off 3.3% for the quarter; and up 8.3% year-to-date.Nike Inc. NKE -9.40%  retreated 9.4% after the athletic-shoe retailer reported a drop in net income in its latest quarter. The Nasdaq Composite COMP +3.00%  climbed 85.56 points, or 3%, to 2,935.05. The index is up 1.5% for the week; up 3.8% for June; down 5.1% for the quarter; and up nearly 13% year-to date.For every stock falling nearly seven gained on the New York Stock Exchange, where about 1.1 billion shares traded. Composite volume topped 4.5 billion.
A day after falling to an eight-month low, crude-oil futures CLQ2 +9.20%  rose $7.27 to $83.96 a barrel on the belief that help for Europe’s debt troubles would remove one barrier to global economic growth.Oil prices leaped 9%, biggest gain since March 2009.Gold futures GCQ2 +3.11%  climbed $53.80 to $1,604.20 an ounce.The euro EURUSD +0.0405%  gained against other currencies, including the dollar. U.S. Treasury prices slid, with the yield on the 10-year note 10_YEAR 0.00%  rising to 1.658%.Enthusiasm for equities and other assets continued after economic data had consumer spending holding flat in May and consumer sentiment falling in June.
“The recovery has weakened, consumer spending is still growing, but not at the same pace as it was earlier this year,” said Scott Hoyt, senior director of consumer economics at Moody’s Analytics.
“We’re cautiously optimistic that some of the drivers of the weakness appear to be fading away,” said Hoyt, who cites the increase in oil and gasoline prices that took place earlier in the year, and the warmer winter that appeared to have shifted both hiring and spending forward.“Presumably those effects should be waning. Corporations are flush with cash, and consumers clearly have a lot of pent-up demand since spending has been so slow for so long, so we think there is potential,” Hoyt said.

Saturday's Dow News followed by Friday's Closing Dow Numbers:

AT&T:  WSJ pB8 "Parsing the new cellphone plans" by Karen Blumental says  Verizon is overhauling the way it charges for cellphone use to charge more for using texting and emailing and AT&T said it is looking into similar pricing changes.

Alcoa:

American Express:

Bank of America:  WSJ pB1 "BofA's blunder: $40 bil plus" by Dan Fitzpatrcik says Bank of America's purchase 4 years ago of Countrywide Fin'l for $2.5 has already cost it more than $40 bil and is the "worst deal in the history of American finance."

Fin Times p13 "Oil and gas drilelrs among the biggest S&P winners" by Anora Mahmudova says Bank of America rose 0.9%.

Boeing:  Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "Boeing", Sat WSJ pB3 "Boeing rips Airbus US plan" by Jon Ostrower  say Boeing said a US plant considered by European foe Airbus won't blunt a WTO fight on what it considers illegal subsidies.  If built, the $600 mil Ala. plant would build A320 jets.

Caterpillar:

Chevron:

Cisco:

Coke:  Inv. Bus. Daily pA8 "Taking a hard line on soft drinks" by Reinhardt Krause says Coke and other beverage giants fear NYC's proposal to ban 16 oz sodas could spur measures elsewhere.  Coke has used takeovers to get a foothold in emerging niches and is moving toward health-consciious consumer products.

Disney:

DuPont:

Exxon:

GE:

Hewlett-Packard:  Barron's pM2 charts Hewlett-Packard saying its stock rose due to Europe's good news and hope for stronger global growth.

Home Depot:

Intel:

IBM:

JPMorgan:  Barron's p12 "Week review" says JPMorgan says its losses from its trade blunder is now at $4 bil but could be as high as $9 bil.

AJC pA13 "JPMorgan CIO out with $21.5 mil" says Chief Investment Officer Inda Drew will get this amount as she retires.

Johnson & Johnson:

Kraft:

McDonald's:

Merck:

Microsoft:  Fin Times p11 "Microsoft to pay $1.2bn for social network Yammer" by Richard Waters says ths purchase is a strong endorsement of the movement that brings social networking to working life.

WSJ pA2 "Statistically speaking: browser wars escalate" by Carl Bialik discusses the browser wars between Micrsofot and Google.

Pfizer:

Procter & Gamble:

3M:

Travelers:

United Technologies:  Fin Times p11 "UTC fined for supplying military software to China" by Robert Wright  says UTC pleaded guilty Thurs in Ct to knowingly supplying Chinese manufacturers with electronic engine control software for helicpoters taht had been modified for military helicopties.  The 2 susidiaires involved were Pratt & Whtney Canada & Hamilton Sundstrand.  United Technologies will pay a fine up to $75 mil.

Barron's p19 "CEO Spotlight John Faraci" says the CEO of Int'l Paper is on the Baord of United Technologies.

WSJ pB9 "Earnings bode ill for stocks" by Joe Light Procter & Gamble said it expected eps in 2Q to be between 75 cents & 79 cents, about 6% below analysts' estimates.  Article sugggest United Technologies is a "high quality stock". 

Verizon:   WSJ pB8 "Parsing the new cellphone plans" by Karen Blumental says  Verizon is overhauling the way it charges for cellphone use to charge more for using texting and emailing and AT&T said it is looking into similar pricing changes.

Walmart:  NYT pB1 "Walmart suspends supplier of seafood" by Steven Greenhouse says Walmart has suspended a La. seafood firm due to violations of fed labor standards.

Friday's Closing Dow Numbers:


Symbol Last Sale Change % Change Share Volume Market
TNYSE
AANYSE
AXPNYSE
BACNYSE
BANYSE
CATNYSE
CVXNYSE
CSCONASDAQ-GS
KONYSE
DISNYSE
DDNYSE
XOMNYSE
GENYSE
HPQNYSE
HDNYSE
INTCNASDAQ-GS
IBMNYSE
JPMNYSE
JNJNYSE
KFTNASDAQ-GS
MCDNYSE
MRKNYSE
MSFTNASDAQ-GS
PFENYSE
PGNYSE
MMMNYSE
TRVNYSE
UTXNYSE
VZDualListed
WMTNYSE


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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 6/20/12 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 $397.5 [4.5]
2. Microsoft MSFT 260 [8.5]
3. IBM 229.5 [1]
4. WalMart WMT 233 [3.5]
5. Chevron CVX 204.5 [2]
6. AT&T T 207.5 [6]
7. GE 213 [10.5]
8.Procter & Gamble PG 165.5 [3]
9. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 184 [3]
10. Coke KO 170.5 [2.5]
11. Pfizer PFE 169.5 [7.5]
12. JPMorgan Chase JPM 138.5 [4]
13. Intel INTC 139 [5]
14. Verizon VZ 123 [3]
15. Merck MRK 119 [3]
16. McDonald's MCD 90 [1]
17. Cisco CSCO 94 [5.5]
18. Disney DIS 85.5 [2]
19. Bank of America BAC 87.5 [10.5]
20. Home Depot HD 81 [1.5]
21. United Technologies UTX 69 [1]
22. Kraft KFT 69 [2]
23. American Express AXP 66 [1]
24. Caterpillar CAT 57 [.5]
25. 3M MMM 60.5 [.5]
26. Boeing BA 54.5 [1]
27. DuPont DD 47.5 [1]
28. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 42 [2]
29. Travelers TRV 25 [.5]
30. Alcoa AA 9.5 [1]

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Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 6/20/12:

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

AT&T T: 6/14/12 8K re: sale of approx. $2 bil of notes
6/7/12 8K re completion of sale of AT&T Advertising Solutions to Cerebrus
5/4/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31
5/2/12 8K re: Results of Annual Stockholders Meeting
4/24/12 2 8Ks re: 1 Qtr results

Alcoa AA: 5/10/12 8K re: Results of Annual Shareholders Meeting
5/8/12 8K re: Sustainability Highlights Report
4/16/12 8K re: 1Q Earnings call transcript
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

American Express AXP: 6/15/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats 3/31, 4/30 & 5/31/12
6/13/12 8K re: fin'l presentation of Vice-Chair Edward Gilligan
5/15/12 8K re: delinquency & write-off stats thru 4/30
5/3/12 8K re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders results
5/1/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31
4/18/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
4/16/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats thru 3/31
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

Bank of Am BAC: 5/25/12 8K re: repurchase of notes
5/9/12 8K re: results of Annual Shareholders meeting
5/4/12 8K re: change of presentation of fin'l info
5/3/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31
4/23/12 Proxy material for 5/9 Annual Meeting
4/19/12 8K 1Q results
4/11/12 8K re: reclassification of business segments


Boeing BA: 5/3/12 8K re: amendment to bylaws reducing number of directors from 12 to 114/25/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/25/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
3/16/12 Proxy materials re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 4/30/12 10 am Field Museum, Chicago

Caterpillar CAT: 6/20/12 8K re: 3 month dealer stats thru 5/12
6/18/12 8K re: amended by-laws re: date of annual stockholders meeting
6/14/12 8K re: election of Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. to Bd. of Dirs.
6/13/12 8K re: increase of quarterly div to 52 cents payable 8/20 to 7/20 record holders
5/17/12 8K re: 3 month dealer stats thru 4/12
5/7/12 10Q for 1 Qtr ended 3/31
4/25 8K re: 3/12 dealer stats
4/25/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
4/23/12 Proxy re: 6/13/12 Annual Stockholders Meeting at San Antonio, Tx
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

Chevron CVX: 6/4/12 8K re: voting results from annual stockholders meeting
5/27/12 proxy re: recommendation to vote against all stockholder proposals
5/3/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
5/3/12 Proxy material re: voting recommendations
4/27/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
4/12/12 & 3/29/12 Proxy material re: Annual Meeting of 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.

Cisco CSCO : 6/13/12 8K re: director's pre-arranged stock trading plan
5/23/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/28/12
5/9/12 8K re: 3 Qtr results
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

Coke KO: 5/25/12 Proxy material re: 7/10 Special stockholders meeting
5/15/12 Proxy re: special meeting of stockholders to approve stock split to be held at Atlanta on 7/10/12 to get invited email: shareownerservices@na.ko.com by 5/21
3/14/12 8K re: closing of sale of over $1 bil of notes


Disney DIS:6/11/12 8K re: $2.25 bil 5 year credit agreement
5/8/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
5/8/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
3/16/12 8K re: amendment to 2011 Stock Incentive Plan

DuPont DD: 5/1/12 8K re: Annual meeting of stockholders results
4/24/12 10Q re: quarter ended 3/31
4/19/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
4/17/12 Proxy re: voting recommendations
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.

ExxonMobil XOM: 6/1/12 8K re: voting results from annual shareholders meeting
5/16/12 proxy re: exec compensation
5/11/12 proxy re: voting recommendations
5/3/12 10Q ended 3/31
4/26/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
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

GE: 6/12/12 8K re: election of Manjin Dekkers to Board of Dirs.
5/23/12 10Q/A amend 10Q for quarter ended 3/31/12
5/16/12 8K re: dividend of $475 mil from GECC to GE & increase of stock buyback program
5/9/12 10Q/A & 5/4/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31
4/30/12 8K amending employee incentive plan
4/20/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
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

Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 6/8/12 10Q re: quarter ended 4/30/12
5/23/12 8K re: 2nd Qtr results
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

Home Depot HD: 5/24/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/29/12
5/22/12 8K re: voting results of 5/17 annual shareholders meeting
5/15/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
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

Intel INTC: 5/22/12 8K re: voting results of annual stockholders meeting
5/11/12 8K re: Reg FD disclosure of webcast
5/7/12 8K re: 90 cents a share dividend
5/4/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/18/12 & 4/17/12 8Ks re: 1 Qtr results
4/4/12 Proxy material re: annual stockholders meeting 5/17/12 8:30 am HQ, Santa Clara, CA


IBM: 5/10/12 8K re: underwriting of notes
5/9/12 8K re: investor briefing materials
4/26/12 8K re: Annual stockholders meeting results
4/24/12 10Q re: Qtr ended 3/31
4/18/12 8K re: sale of IBM's Retail Store Solutions Business to Toshiba TEC
4/18/12 & 4/17/12 8Ks re: 1 Qtr results


JPMorganChase JPM: 6/13/12 8K re: CEO Jamie Dimon's testimony before US Senate Comm on Banking
6/12/12 8K re: redemption of $9 bil in Trust Preferred Capital Securities
5/18/12 8K re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders' results
5/15/12 8K re: retirement of Chief Inv. Office Ina Drew succeeded by Matthew E. Zames
5/10/12 10Q re: qtr ende 3/31
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


Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 6/14/12 8K re: completion of Synthes purchase for $19.7 cash/stock
6/12/12 8K re: repurchase of shares from Goldman Sachs & JPMorgan
6/8/12 8K re: special charge of $600 mil related to legal charges related to Risperdal, Invega & Naterecor
5/8/12 8K re: sale of DePuy Orthopaedics to Biomet
5/7/12 10Q re: qtr ended 4/1
4/27/12 8K re: results of annual meeting of stockholders
4/20/12 add'l proxy material
4/19/12 8K re: amendment to bylaws splitting the offices of Chairman & CEO
4/17/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
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


Kraft KFT: 6/18/12 8K re: Exchange Offer
6/8/12 8K re: on 6/26 KFT to trade on NASDAQ not NYSE
5/31/12 8K re: issuance of $6 bil of notes
5/24/12 8K re: amendment of bylaws to do away with share certificates as of 6/15
5/22/12 8K re: 5 year revolving credit contract
5/18/12 8K re: favorable IRS ruling on tax-free nature of spin-off
5/14/12 proxy material re Annual meeting
5/4/12 10Q for qtr ended 3/31
5/3/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
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.

McDonald's MCD: 6/18/12 8K re: stocks options to Donald Thompson CEO as of 7/1
6/11/12 8K re: May '12 sales
5/29/12 8K re: issuance of approx. $1 bil of notes
5/29/12 8K re: approval of officers' stock plan
5/8/12 8K re: April sales
5/8/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/20/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
4/16/12 8K re: election of Tim Fenton as COO
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
Merck MRK: 5/25/12 8K re: voting results of 5/22 Annual meeting of shareholders
4/27/12 10Q re Qr ended 3/31
4/27/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
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

Microsoft MSFT: 6/18/12 8K re: Amendment to By-laws re: timing of Annual Meeting of Shareholders
5/3/12 8K re: election of Steve Luczo to Board, he is CEO of Seagate Tech
4/19/12 10Q for qtr ended 3/31
4/19/12 8K re 1 Qtr results

Pfizer PFE: 5/23/12 8K re: exec promotions
5/10/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/1
5/1/12 8K re: 1 qtr results
4/27/12 8K re: results of annual meeting of shareholders
4/23/12 8K re: ale of Nutrition business to Nestle for $11.85 bil
44/16/12 add't'l proxy material
3/15/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders 4/26/12 8:30 am Westin Governor Morris, Morristown, NJ
Procter & Gamble PG: 5/4/12 8K e: resentation of info re: Snack Business as a discontinued operation
4/27/12 10Q for qtr ended 3/31
4/27/12 2 8Ks re: 3 qtr results
4/13/12 8K re: dividend of 0.562 cents payable 5/15/12 to record holders at 4/27

3M MMM: 5/10/12 & 5/412 8Ks re: adoption of exec pre-arranged stock trading plans
5/9/12 2 8Ks re: approval of amendments to employee stock purchase plan
5/3/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/24/12 8K re: 1 qtr results
4/17/12 8K re: duties of Lead Independent Director
3/21/12 Proxy materials re: annual meeting of stockhodlers 5/8/12 10 am River Centre, St. Paul, Minn

Travelers TRV: 5/25/12 8K re: voting results of 5/23 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
4/19/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/19/12 8K re: results of quarter ended 3/31
4/10/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 5/23/12 11 am Hartford, Marriott

United Technologies UTX: 6/18/12 8K re: issuance of equity unites
6/1/12 8K re: issuance of $9.8 bil of notes
4/30/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/24/12 8K re: 1 qtr results
4/13/12 8K re: retirement 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


Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 5/9/12 8K re: results of annual shareholders meeting
4/26/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/19/12 8K re: 1 qtr results
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.


WalMart WMT: 6/4/12 8K re: voting results of Annual Meeting of Shareholders
6/1/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/30/12
5/17/12 8K re: operating results & guidance
4/16/12 proxy material re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held 6/1 at 7 am at U. of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark.
3/27/12 10K for year ended 1/31/12 END

Friday, June 29, 2012

6/29/12 Fri pm Dow Closes at 12,880.09 up 277.83 or 2.2%


Post No. 1,702 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, and a recent ranking of the Dow 30 components by market capitalization as of 6/20/12 and Dow 30 components' SEC filings as of 6/20/12.

 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 12,880.09 up 277.83 or 2.2.2% from Thursday's close of 12,602.26.  For the week the Dow was up 239.31 points or 1.90 % from last Friday's close of 12,640.78.  Of the 30 Dow components 29  gained and only JPMorgan  declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was IBM up $4.18 and percentage-wise was Bank of America up 5.68% . The only nad therefore biggest decliner dollar-wise  and percentage-wise was JPMorgan down 15 cents or 0.42%.

As of the open of the market on Friday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C5 of Thursday's Wall St. Journal is 0.132129493. Friday's trailing P/E ratio is 13.89 down from yesterday's trailing P/E ratio of 13.91  (year ago it was 14.12); today's P/E estimate is 12.15 unchanged from Thursday's P/E estimate of 12.15 (year ago it was 12.20) and today's dividend yield is 2.67 up from yesterday's dividend yield of 2.65 (last year it was 2.4). 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 1,701.84 up 36.71  from  Thursday's closing numerator of 1,665.13. 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  Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $56.73 up $1.23 from Thursday's average closing price of $55.50. The median closing price of  Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $51.78 (HD/DD) up $1.05 from Thursday's median closing price of $50.73. The lowest volume was Travelers 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 made $3,671 ($170,184 - $166,513).

MarketWatch Fri. 4:48  pm by Kate Gibson says U.S. stocks leapt on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average posting its best month of the year, after Europe agreed on steps to bolster the economies of its more troubled nations.The European Union summit in Brussels had policy makers agreeing to relax repayment conditions for Spanish banks and to lower the bar to possible aid to Italy, along with proposing a $149 billion economic-growth plan for the region.“‘Let’s throw more money at it’ is essentially their plan, and, ‘Hopefully we’ll be in a better position to pay it back at some date in the future.’ It’s making people feel like they got something, but it doesn’t really address the problem,” said Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at Banyan Partners.“It’s a minor good thing; the amount of money they’ll be paying to borrow is reduced, and the potential for default is reduced, but it just addresses the near short-term issue,” added Pavlik, who believes the European Union needs economic reforms to address the underlying causes.“The corruption and backwards way of doing things in these countries is part of what led up to this, with people avoiding paying taxes and no communication within departments of governments.”Stocks rose and Spanish and Italian bonds rallied after the EU summit provided bits of good news, BP’s intentions over its Russian Venture are questioned and a preview of the Euro 2012 soccer final between Italy and Spain.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA +2.20%  rose 277.83 points, or 2.2%, to 12,880.09, with Bank of America Corp. BAC +5.68%  leading the rise.The blue-chip index is up 1.9% for the week; up 3.9% for the month; off 2.5% for the quarter; and up 5.4% for the year.The S&P 500 Index SPX +2.49%  added 33.12 points, or 2.5%, to 1,362.16, with industrials faring best among its 10 major sectors. The index is up 2% for the week; up 4% for June; off 3.3% for the quarter; and up 8.3% year-to-date.Nike Inc. NKE -9.40%  retreated 9.4% after the athletic-shoe retailer reported a drop in net income in its latest quarter. The Nasdaq Composite COMP +3.00%  climbed 85.56 points, or 3%, to 2,935.05. The index is up 1.5% for the week; up 3.8% for June; down 5.1% for the quarter; and up nearly 13% year-to date.For every stock falling nearly seven gained on the New York Stock Exchange, where about 1.1 billion shares traded. Composite volume topped 4.5 billion.
A day after falling to an eight-month low, crude-oil futures CLQ2 +9.20%  rose $7.27 to $83.96 a barrel on the belief that help for Europe’s debt troubles would remove one barrier to global economic growth.Oil prices leaped 9%, biggest gain since March 2009.Gold futures GCQ2 +3.11%  climbed $53.80 to $1,604.20 an ounce.The euro EURUSD +0.0405%  gained against other currencies, including the dollar. U.S. Treasury prices slid, with the yield on the 10-year note 10_YEAR 0.00%  rising to 1.658%.Enthusiasm for equities and other assets continued after economic data had consumer spending holding flat in May and consumer sentiment falling in June.
“The recovery has weakened, consumer spending is still growing, but not at the same pace as it was earlier this year,” said Scott Hoyt, senior director of consumer economics at Moody’s Analytics.
“We’re cautiously optimistic that some of the drivers of the weakness appear to be fading away,” said Hoyt, who cites the increase in oil and gasoline prices that took place earlier in the year, and the warmer winter that appeared to have shifted both hiring and spending forward.“Presumably those effects should be waning. Corporations are flush with cash, and consumers clearly have a lot of pent-up demand since spending has been so slow for so long, so we think there is potential,” Hoyt said.

Friday's Closing Dow Numbers:


Symbol Last Sale Change % Change Share Volume Market
TNYSE
AANYSE
AXPNYSE
BACNYSE
BANYSE
CATNYSE
CVXNYSE
CSCONASDAQ-GS
KONYSE
DISNYSE
DDNYSE
XOMNYSE
GENYSE
HPQNYSE
HDNYSE
INTCNASDAQ-GS
IBMNYSE
JPMNYSE
JNJNYSE
KFTNASDAQ-GS
MCDNYSE
MRKNYSE
MSFTNASDAQ-GS
PFENYSE
PGNYSE
MMMNYSE
TRVNYSE
UTXNYSE
VZDualListed
WMTNYSE
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The following are excerpts from Friday morning's Blog.

A read of the print editions of Friday's Wall St. Journal &  Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily,  New York Times,  USA Today, 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 a separate table of Dow component's symbol and Thursday's stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.

Dow Jones Average  The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Thursday at 12,602.26 down 24.75 or 0.2% from Wednesday's close of 12,602.26. For the year the Dow is up 3.15%. Of the 30 Dow components 14  gained, 3M was unchanged and 15  declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise  and percentage-wise was Chevron up $1.02 or 0.99% . The biggest decliner dollar-wise was IBM down $1.52 and percentage-wise was JPMorgan down 2.42%.

WSJ pC4 "Stocks get a late bounce" by Chris Dieterich says major benechmarks trimmed sharp declines in the final hour of trading to finish modestly lower as optimism for possible aid to debt strapped European nations cut into losses that followed the Supreme Court's health care decisions.  Tech stocks declined, Cisco dropped 25 cents.

NYT pB6 "A late day bounce eases losses" by Reuters says the stock market fell Thurs but pared back its sharp losses late in the day amid talk of progress by European leaders in easing the region's debt crisis.  Sahres of JJPMorgan dropped 2.5% on news its trade loss could reach $9 bil.

Inv. Bus. Daily pB2 "Indexes trim early losses, but top stocks stagger" by Paul Whitfield says stocks staggered early Thurs but recovered much of the lost ground in the session's final 90 minutues.  McDonald's made small mvoes even though it would be expected to struggle with costs from the Supreme Court decision because it has gov exemptions from the law.  Thursday's action was down in rising volume and the current outlook is the market is in a correction.

USA Today p4B "Markets close down but recover most early day losses" by AP says a late recovery on Wall St wiped out most of the stock market's losses Thurs.


Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,665.13 down 3.27  from  Wednesday's closing numerator of 1,668.40. 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  Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $55.50 down  $0.11 from Wednesday's average closing price of $55.61. The median closing price of Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $50.73 (HD/DD) up 0.13 from Wednesday's median closing price of $50.60. The lowest volume was Travelers and the highest volume again was Bank of America.

If  Thursday 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 $327 ($166,840 - $166,513).

MarketWatch Thurs. 4:10  pm by Kate Gibson says U.S. stocks on Thursday closed with mild losses after recouping most of the day's slide in the final 30 minutes of trade. The energy sector led the late-session recovery. After falling as many as 177 points, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA -0.20% ended off 24.75 points, or 0.2%, at 12,602.26. The S&P 500 index SPX -0.21% declined 2.81 points, or 0.2%, to 1,329.04. The Nasdaq Composite COMP -0.90% shed 25.83 points, or 0.9%, to 2,849.49.

Friday's Dow News followed by Thursday's Closing Dow Numbers:

AT&T:  WSJ pC18 "Fee battle is breaking ad news for AMC" by Miriam Gotfired says AT&T and Dish will drop AMC after 6/30 and they have a combined 18 mil subscribers, 18% of the pay TV market.

Alcoa:  No mentions found.

American Express: No mentions found.

Bank of America: No mentions found.

Boeing: No mentions found.

Caterpillar: No mentions found.

Chevron: No mentions found.

Cisco: WSJ pC4 "Stocks get a late bounce" by Chris Dieterich says major benechmarks trimmed sharp declines in the final hour of trading to finish modestly lower as optimism for possible aid to debt strapped European nations cut into losses that followed the Supreme Court's health care decisions.  Tech stocks declined, Cisco dropped 25 cents.

Coke:  AJC pA15 "Mountain Dew pops to top spot in Ga" by Leon Stafford says Mountain Dw is the number 1 best seller of 20 oz. soda's in Georgia convenience stores.

Disney: No mentions found.

DuPont: No mentions found.

Exxon: No mentions found.

GE: No mentions found.

Hewlett-Packard: No mentions found.

Home Depot: No mentions found.

Intel: No mentions found.

IBM: No mentions found.

JPMorgan:  WSJ pC1 "JPMorgan models get regulatory spotlight" by Julie Steinberg, Inv. Bus. Daily pA1 "JPMorgan loss much worse", USA Today pB1 "Briefly"  say regulators ahve stepped up scrutiny of JPM's internal controls.  The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency wants to seek its risk models.

NYT pB6 "A late day bounce eases losses" by Reuters says the stock market fell Thurs but pared back its sharp losses late in the day amid talk of progress by European leaders in easing the region's debt crisis.  Sahres of JJPMorgan dropped 2.5% on news its trade loss could reach $9 bil.

Johnson & Johnson: No mentions found.

Kraft: No mentions found.

McDonald's: No mentions found.

Merck: No mentions found.

Microsoft:  WSJ pB3 "AOL Firm plans to buy back 4400 mil of its shares" by Keach Hagey says AOL will return to shareholders all of the proceeds of its $1.1 bil patent sale to Microsoft by buying back some of its shares.

Pfizer: No mentions found.

Procter & Gamble: No mentions found.

3M: No mentions found.

Travelers: No mentions found.

United Technologies: WSJ pC1 UTC helped build China's first military attack copter" by kate Linebaugh says United Technologies' Pratt & Whitney Canada supplied China's attack helicopter with its PT6C-67C engines & engine software modified for military use.  On Thurs, it pleaded guilty to illegally supplying China with military tech and agreed to pay more than $75 mil in penalties in a major violation of US arms control laws.

Verizon: No mentions found.

Walmart: No mentions found.

Thursday's Closing Dow Numbers:


Symbol Last Sale Change % Change Share Volume Market
TNYSE
AANYSE
AXPNYSE
BACNYSE
BANYSE
CATNYSE
CVXNYSE
CSCONASDAQ-GS
KONYSE
DISNYSE
DDNYSE
XOMNYSE
GENYSE
HPQNYSE
HDNYSE
INTCNASDAQ-GS
IBMNYSE
JPMNYSE
JNJNYSE
KFTNASDAQ-GS
MCDNYSE
MRKNYSE
MSFTNASDAQ-GS
PFENYSE
PGNYSE
MMMNYSE
TRVNYSE
UTXNYSE
VZDualListed
WMTNYSE

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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 6/20/12 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 $397.5 [4.5]
2. Microsoft MSFT 260 [8.5]
3. IBM 229.5 [1]
4. WalMart WMT 233 [3.5]
5. Chevron CVX 204.5 [2]
6. AT&T T 207.5 [6]
7. GE 213 [10.5]
8.Procter & Gamble PG 165.5 [3]
9. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 184 [3]
10. Coke KO 170.5 [2.5]
11. Pfizer PFE 169.5 [7.5]
12. JPMorgan Chase JPM 138.5 [4]
13. Intel INTC 139 [5]
14. Verizon VZ 123 [3]
15. Merck MRK 119 [3]
16. McDonald's MCD 90 [1]
17. Cisco CSCO 94 [5.5]
18. Disney DIS 85.5 [2]
19. Bank of America BAC 87.5 [10.5]
20. Home Depot HD 81 [1.5]
21. United Technologies UTX 69 [1]
22. Kraft KFT 69 [2]
23. American Express AXP 66 [1]
24. Caterpillar CAT 57 [.5]
25. 3M MMM 60.5 [.5]
26. Boeing BA 54.5 [1]
27. DuPont DD 47.5 [1]
28. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 42 [2]
29. Travelers TRV 25 [.5]
30. Alcoa AA 9.5 [1]

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Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 6/20/12:

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

AT&T T: 6/14/12 8K re: sale of approx. $2 bil of notes
6/7/12 8K re completion of sale of AT&T Advertising Solutions to Cerebrus
5/4/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31
5/2/12 8K re: Results of Annual Stockholders Meeting
4/24/12 2 8Ks re: 1 Qtr results

Alcoa AA: 5/10/12 8K re: Results of Annual Shareholders Meeting
5/8/12 8K re: Sustainability Highlights Report
4/16/12 8K re: 1Q Earnings call transcript
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

American Express AXP: 6/15/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats 3/31, 4/30 & 5/31/12
6/13/12 8K re: fin'l presentation of Vice-Chair Edward Gilligan
5/15/12 8K re: delinquency & write-off stats thru 4/30
5/3/12 8K re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders results
5/1/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31
4/18/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
4/16/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats thru 3/31
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

Bank of Am BAC: 5/25/12 8K re: repurchase of notes
5/9/12 8K re: results of Annual Shareholders meeting
5/4/12 8K re: change of presentation of fin'l info
5/3/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31
4/23/12 Proxy material for 5/9 Annual Meeting
4/19/12 8K 1Q results
4/11/12 8K re: reclassification of business segments


Boeing BA: 5/3/12 8K re: amendment to bylaws reducing number of directors from 12 to 114/25/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/25/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
3/16/12 Proxy materials re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 4/30/12 10 am Field Museum, Chicago

Caterpillar CAT: 6/20/12 8K re: 3 month dealer stats thru 5/12
6/18/12 8K re: amended by-laws re: date of annual stockholders meeting
6/14/12 8K re: election of Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. to Bd. of Dirs.
6/13/12 8K re: increase of quarterly div to 52 cents payable 8/20 to 7/20 record holders
5/17/12 8K re: 3 month dealer stats thru 4/12
5/7/12 10Q for 1 Qtr ended 3/31
4/25 8K re: 3/12 dealer stats
4/25/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
4/23/12 Proxy re: 6/13/12 Annual Stockholders Meeting at San Antonio, Tx
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

Chevron CVX: 6/4/12 8K re: voting results from annual stockholders meeting
5/27/12 proxy re: recommendation to vote against all stockholder proposals
5/3/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
5/3/12 Proxy material re: voting recommendations
4/27/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
4/12/12 & 3/29/12 Proxy material re: Annual Meeting of 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.

Cisco CSCO : 6/13/12 8K re: director's pre-arranged stock trading plan
5/23/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/28/12
5/9/12 8K re: 3 Qtr results
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

Coke KO: 5/25/12 Proxy material re: 7/10 Special stockholders meeting
5/15/12 Proxy re: special meeting of stockholders to approve stock split to be held at Atlanta on 7/10/12 to get invited email: shareownerservices@na.ko.com by 5/21
3/14/12 8K re: closing of sale of over $1 bil of notes


Disney DIS:6/11/12 8K re: $2.25 bil 5 year credit agreement
5/8/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
5/8/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
3/16/12 8K re: amendment to 2011 Stock Incentive Plan

DuPont DD: 5/1/12 8K re: Annual meeting of stockholders results
4/24/12 10Q re: quarter ended 3/31
4/19/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
4/17/12 Proxy re: voting recommendations
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.

ExxonMobil XOM: 6/1/12 8K re: voting results from annual shareholders meeting
5/16/12 proxy re: exec compensation
5/11/12 proxy re: voting recommendations
5/3/12 10Q ended 3/31
4/26/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
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

GE: 6/12/12 8K re: election of Manjin Dekkers to Board of Dirs.
5/23/12 10Q/A amend 10Q for quarter ended 3/31/12
5/16/12 8K re: dividend of $475 mil from GECC to GE & increase of stock buyback program
5/9/12 10Q/A & 5/4/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31
4/30/12 8K amending employee incentive plan
4/20/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
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

Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 6/8/12 10Q re: quarter ended 4/30/12
5/23/12 8K re: 2nd Qtr results
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

Home Depot HD: 5/24/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/29/12
5/22/12 8K re: voting results of 5/17 annual shareholders meeting
5/15/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
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

Intel INTC: 5/22/12 8K re: voting results of annual stockholders meeting
5/11/12 8K re: Reg FD disclosure of webcast
5/7/12 8K re: 90 cents a share dividend
5/4/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/18/12 & 4/17/12 8Ks re: 1 Qtr results
4/4/12 Proxy material re: annual stockholders meeting 5/17/12 8:30 am HQ, Santa Clara, CA


IBM: 5/10/12 8K re: underwriting of notes
5/9/12 8K re: investor briefing materials
4/26/12 8K re: Annual stockholders meeting results
4/24/12 10Q re: Qtr ended 3/31
4/18/12 8K re: sale of IBM's Retail Store Solutions Business to Toshiba TEC
4/18/12 & 4/17/12 8Ks re: 1 Qtr results


JPMorganChase JPM: 6/13/12 8K re: CEO Jamie Dimon's testimony before US Senate Comm on Banking
6/12/12 8K re: redemption of $9 bil in Trust Preferred Capital Securities
5/18/12 8K re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders' results
5/15/12 8K re: retirement of Chief Inv. Office Ina Drew succeeded by Matthew E. Zames
5/10/12 10Q re: qtr ende 3/31
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


Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 6/14/12 8K re: completion of Synthes purchase for $19.7 cash/stock
6/12/12 8K re: repurchase of shares from Goldman Sachs & JPMorgan
6/8/12 8K re: special charge of $600 mil related to legal charges related to Risperdal, Invega & Naterecor
5/8/12 8K re: sale of DePuy Orthopaedics to Biomet
5/7/12 10Q re: qtr ended 4/1
4/27/12 8K re: results of annual meeting of stockholders
4/20/12 add'l proxy material
4/19/12 8K re: amendment to bylaws splitting the offices of Chairman & CEO
4/17/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
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


Kraft KFT: 6/18/12 8K re: Exchange Offer
6/8/12 8K re: on 6/26 KFT to trade on NASDAQ not NYSE
5/31/12 8K re: issuance of $6 bil of notes
5/24/12 8K re: amendment of bylaws to do away with share certificates as of 6/15
5/22/12 8K re: 5 year revolving credit contract
5/18/12 8K re: favorable IRS ruling on tax-free nature of spin-off
5/14/12 proxy material re Annual meeting
5/4/12 10Q for qtr ended 3/31
5/3/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
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.

McDonald's MCD: 6/18/12 8K re: stocks options to Donald Thompson CEO as of 7/1
6/11/12 8K re: May '12 sales
5/29/12 8K re: issuance of approx. $1 bil of notes
5/29/12 8K re: approval of officers' stock plan
5/8/12 8K re: April sales
5/8/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/20/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
4/16/12 8K re: election of Tim Fenton as COO
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
Merck MRK: 5/25/12 8K re: voting results of 5/22 Annual meeting of shareholders
4/27/12 10Q re Qr ended 3/31
4/27/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results
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

Microsoft MSFT: 6/18/12 8K re: Amendment to By-laws re: timing of Annual Meeting of Shareholders
5/3/12 8K re: election of Steve Luczo to Board, he is CEO of Seagate Tech
4/19/12 10Q for qtr ended 3/31
4/19/12 8K re 1 Qtr results

Pfizer PFE: 5/23/12 8K re: exec promotions
5/10/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/1
5/1/12 8K re: 1 qtr results
4/27/12 8K re: results of annual meeting of shareholders
4/23/12 8K re: ale of Nutrition business to Nestle for $11.85 bil
44/16/12 add't'l proxy material
3/15/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders 4/26/12 8:30 am Westin Governor Morris, Morristown, NJ
Procter & Gamble PG: 5/4/12 8K e: resentation of info re: Snack Business as a discontinued operation
4/27/12 10Q for qtr ended 3/31
4/27/12 2 8Ks re: 3 qtr results
4/13/12 8K re: dividend of 0.562 cents payable 5/15/12 to record holders at 4/27

3M MMM: 5/10/12 & 5/412 8Ks re: adoption of exec pre-arranged stock trading plans
5/9/12 2 8Ks re: approval of amendments to employee stock purchase plan
5/3/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/24/12 8K re: 1 qtr results
4/17/12 8K re: duties of Lead Independent Director
3/21/12 Proxy materials re: annual meeting of stockhodlers 5/8/12 10 am River Centre, St. Paul, Minn

Travelers TRV: 5/25/12 8K re: voting results of 5/23 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
4/19/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/19/12 8K re: results of quarter ended 3/31
4/10/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 5/23/12 11 am Hartford, Marriott

United Technologies UTX: 6/18/12 8K re: issuance of equity unites
6/1/12 8K re: issuance of $9.8 bil of notes
4/30/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/24/12 8K re: 1 qtr results
4/13/12 8K re: retirement 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


Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 5/9/12 8K re: results of annual shareholders meeting
4/26/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31
4/19/12 8K re: 1 qtr results
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.


WalMart WMT: 6/4/12 8K re: voting results of Annual Meeting of Shareholders
6/1/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/30/12
5/17/12 8K re: operating results & guidance
4/16/12 proxy material re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held 6/1 at 7 am at U. of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark.
3/27/12 10K for year ended 1/31/12 END