Friday, June 15, 2012

6/15/12 Fri pm Dow Closes at 12,767.13 up 115.26 or 0.91%



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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 12,767.13 up 115.26 or 0.91% from Thursday's close of 12,651.91.  For the week the Dow is up  212.93 or  1.70% from last Friday's close of 12,554.20.  Of the 30 Dow components  26 gained and 4  declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was IBM up $4.14 and percentage-wise was Bank of America 3%.  The biggest decliner dollar-wise    and percentage-wise was Procter & Gamble down 30 cents or 0.47%.

Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,686.91 up 15.22 from Thursday's closing numerator of 1,671.69. 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 $56.23 up  $0.51 from Thursday's average closing price of $55.72. The median closing price of Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $52.83 (HD/DD) up 2.79 from Thurday's median closing price of $50.04. 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 $1,522 ($168,691 - $167,169

Marketwatch Friday 6/15/12 4:14  pm by Kate Gibson says US stocks on Friday tallied their first back-to-back weekly wins in more than a month on optimism about potential coordinated action by global central banks to stabilize markets if needed after Sunday's Greek elections. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA +0.91% rose 115.26 points, or 0.9%, to 12,767.17, up 1.7% from the week-ago close. The S&P 500 Index SPX +1.03% climbed 13.74 points, or 1%, to 1,342.84, a weekly gain of 1.3%. The Nasdaq Composite COMP +1.29% advanced 36.47 points, or 1.3%, to 2,872.80, up 0.5% for the week.


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
GENYSE
HPQNYSE
HDNYSE
INTCNASDAQ-GS
IBMNYSE
JPMNYSE
JNJNYSE
KFTNYSE
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 T he Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Thursday at 12,651.91 up 155.53 or 1.24% from Wednesday's close of 12,498.38.  For the year the Dow is up 3.56%.  Of the 30 Dow components  28 gained and  2  declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was Chevron up $1.79 and percentage-wise was Travelers up 2.38%.  The biggest decliner dollar-wise    and percentage-wise was Boeing down 21 cents or 0.29%.

  As of the open of the market on Friday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C5 of Friday's Wall St. Journal is 0.132129493. Friday's trailing P/E ratio is 13.94 up from yesterday's trailing P/E ratio of 13.73 (year ago it was 13.54); today's P/E estimate is 11.75 unchanged from Thursday's P/E estimate of 11.75 (year ago it was 12.01) and today's dividend yield is 2.66 down from yesterday's dividend yield of 2.69 (last year it was 2.52). 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.


Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,671.69 up 19.71 from Wednesday's closing numerator of 1,651.40. 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 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  Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $55.72 up  $0.67 from Wednesday's average closing price of $55.05. The median closing price of Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $50.86 (HD/DD) up 0.82 from Wednesday's median closing price of $50.04. 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 made $1,971 ($167,169 - $165,140).

MarketWatch Thursday 5:04 pm by Kate Gibson says US stocks  jumped Thursday after media reports signaled possible central-bank action and economic data added to the case for further moves by the Federal Reserve to bolster growth. Stock indexes hit session highs after Reuters cited G-20 officials in reporting central banks from major economies stood ready to provide liquidity if needed after Greek elections. U.K. Chancellor George Osborne, for his part, said the Bank of England was ready to activate an emergency-lending program, according to media accounts of the annual Mansion House address. “We are not powerless in the face of the euro-zone debt storm,” he said, according to reports of his speech. The Dow Jones Industrial AverageDJIA +1.24%  rose 155.53 points, or 1.2%, to 12,651.91. The S&P 500 Index SPX +1.08%   climbed 14.22 points, or 1.1%, to 1,329.10, with telecommunications and energy leading gains among its 10 sectors. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP +0.63%  advanced 17.72 points, or 0.6%, to 2,836.33. For every stock falling, more than two gained on the New York Stock Exchange, where 779 million shares traded. Composite volume neared 3.7 billion. Crude futures CLN2 +2.12%  rose $1.29, or 1.6%, to $83.91 a barrel. As expected, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting countries left its collective production ceiling unchanged. Also, natural gas NGN12 +15.74% rallied after government data illustrated a less-than-expected hike in last week inventories of the commodity. Nokia Corp.’s NOK -15.77%  U.S.-listed shares fell nearly 16% after the mobile-phone maker said it would cut 10,000 employees by the end of 2013 and take a worse-than-expected loss in its second quarter.  Kroger Co. KR +6.06% advanced 6.1% after the grocery-store chain raised its profit outlook and said it would repurchase $1 billion in shares. US Airways Group Inc. LCC +4.26%  rose 4.3% after the carrier projected strong second-quarter and 2012 results.Regions Financial Corp. RF +2.26%  rose 2.3% after Goldman Sachs upgraded to buy from neutral its view of the regional bank-holding company. On Thursday, the government said first-time applications for jobless benefits rose by 6,000 to 386,000 last week and consumer prices in May fell 0.3%, the sharpest drop in roughly three years. “While we continue to believe a third round of asset purchases is not coming at the June [Federal Open Market Committee] meeting, the odds of an extension of Operation Twist are growing with each passing data point,” Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG LLC, wrote in emailed research. The FOMC, the policy-setting arm of the U.S. central bank, meets Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington. The major indexes have swung wildly in recent sessions while taking direction from Europe, with the CBOE Volatility Index VIX -10.67%   up more than 13% for the week.On Wednesday, U.S. stocks declined as borrowing costs climbed in Italy and as Wall Street took a guarded stance ahead of Sunday elections in Greece, with the outcome likely to determine whether it remains in the euro. Furthering those worries, Moody’s Investors Service cut its rating on Spanish government debt by three notches.


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


AT&T:  No mentions found.


Alcoa: No mentions found.


American Express: No mentions found.


Bank of America  Inv. Bus. Daily pA14 "Socialists force BofA to go green" is an idiotic editorial that criticizes Bank of America for pledging "an eye-popping $50 bill in loans for "renewable energy" projects and JPMorgan's decision to pump nearly $7 bil into renewable energy projects.  I love the phrase "eye-popping."  Another great phrase I saw today in the Daily Report that had nothing to do with the Dow, was about an Atlanta firm that was opening an office in Miami.  It said it was "quietly" opening an office.  I wonder how you quietly open a new office.  I guess it means mean they don't issue press releases and that sort of thing but the phrase evokes the notion that they have librarian type ladies running around shushing the burly moving guys to be very, very quiet as they move in the heavy furniture.


Boeing:  WSJ pB2 "rockwell says Dreamlienr benefit will be delayed" by Jon Ostrower says Rockwell won't get a boost from its role as a supplier for the 787 for 2 more years due to Boeing's delays in building the plane.


Caterpillar: No mentions found.


Chevron: No mentions found.


Cisco: No mentions found.


Coke:  AJC pA20 "Coca-Cola to enter Myanmar market" by Candice Choi, AP says Coke is preparing to sell its drinks in Myanmar for the first time in 60 years. Myanmar is one of 3 countries where Coke doesn't do biz.  The other 2 are Cuba and No. Korea.


Disney:  USA Today p1B "Disney's adventure makeover" by matt Krantz says Disney is spending $1.1 bil to give California Adventure a new look.

AJC pA20 "Disney rolls out new apps for Comcast users" says there will be 3 mroe apps that enable pay TV Comcast subscribers to watch TV on the go.


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:  Inv. Bus. Daily pA14 "Socialists force BofA to go green" is an idiotic editorial that criticizes Bank of America for pledging "an eye-popping $50 bill in loans for "renewable energy" projects and JPMorgan's decision to pump nearly $7 bil into renewable energy projects.  I love the phrase "eye-popping."  Another great phrase I saw today in the Daily Report that had nothing to do with the Dow, was about an Atlanta firm that was opening an office in Miami.  It said it was "quietly" opening an office.  I wonder how you quietly open a new office.  I guess it means mean they don't issue press releases and that sort of thing but the phrase evokes the notion that they have librarian type ladies running around shushing the burly moving guys to be very, very quiet as they move in the heavy furniture.

WSJ pC4 "Banks get mauled by bears' bets" by Matt Jarzemsky says investros are piling into bets that profit from a fall in bank stoacks at the fastest pace since the fin'l crisis as uncertainty in Europe and JPMorgan's problems fuel pessimism.  Short interest in JPMorgan is up 75% for Bank of America and 46% for Bank of America.


Johnson & Johnson: No mentions found.


Kraft: No mentions found.


McDonald's: No mentions found.


Merck: No mentions found.


Microsoft:   Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "Microsoft buying Yammer?" says Yammer focuses on social networking, is a startup and may be bought by Microsoft for as much as $1 bil to compete with Jive, Salesforce and Tibco in the biz social networking market.

WSJ pB1 "Nokia's problems haunt Microsoft" by Anton Troianovski", WSJ pC10 "At Nokia, signal is fading fast" by Hester Plumridge says retailers are discounting Nokia's smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Phone op system.


IBD pA4 "New Google, Apple map rivalry points toward mobile ad rivalry" by Kevin Shalvey says Googe and Apple have challengers in the map games including Microsoft's Bing but Google is the clear leader.


AJC pA20 "Yelp, Microsoft strike search engine deal" says Help is feeding its online reviews of restaurants and other merchants to Microsoft's Bing to compete against Zagat on Google.



Pfizer: No mentions found.


Procter & Gamble:  WSJ pC10 "Overheard" says only 200 people follow poor Procter & Gamble on Twitter.


3M: No mentions found.


Travelers: No mentions found.


United Technologies: No mentions found.


Verizon: No mentions found.


Walmart:  WSJ pB4 "Walart retailer is accused again of food violation in China" by Laurie Burkitt as was reported yesterday Walmart is accused of selling sesame oil with high amounts of cadmium and other impure substances.

Thursday's Closing Dow Numbers:
Symbol
Last Sale
Change
% Change
Share Volume
Market
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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 5/16/12 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 $382.5 [4.5]

2. Microsoft MSFT 253.5 [8.5]

3. IBM 229.5 [1]

4. WalMart WMT 202 [3.5]

5. Chevron CVX 200 [2]

6. AT&T T 195.5 [6]

7. GE 195 [10.5]

8.Procter & Gamble PG 174.5 [3]


9. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 174.5 [3]

10. Coke KO 173 [2]

11. Pfizer PFE 167 [7.5]

12. JPMorgan Chase JPM 138 [4]

13. Intel INTC 134 [5]

14. Verizon VZ 116.5 [3]

15. Merck MRK 115 [3]

16. McDonald's MCD 92.5 [1]

17. Cisco CSCO 89 [5.5]

18. Disney DIS 80.5 [2]

19. Bank of America BAC 78.5 [10.5]

20. Home Depot HD 74 [1.5]

21. United Technologies UTX 69.5 [1]

22. Kraft KFT 69 [2]

23. American Express AXP 67 [1]

24. Caterpillar CAT 60.5 [.5]

25. 3M MMM 59.5 [.5]

26. Boeing BA 54.5 [1]

27. DuPont DD 47 [1]

28. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 44 [2]

29. Travelers TRV 25 [.5]

30. Alcoa AA 9 [1]


Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 5/16/12:



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



AT&T T: 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

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

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: 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

3/15/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats thru 2/29

3/13/12 8K re: Comprehensive Capital Plan




Bank of Am BAC: 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

3/16/12 8K re: sale of preferred stock




Boeing BA: 5/3/12 8K re: amendment to bylaws reducing number of directors from 12 to 11

4/25/12 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: 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

3/20/12 8K re: dealer stats thru 2/12




Chevron CVX: 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 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.



Cisco CSCO : 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: 5/15/12 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

3/8/12 Proxy materials re Annual meeting of shareowners 4/15/12 9:30 am Cobb Galeria, Atlanta




Disney DIS: 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: 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: 5/16/12 8K re: dividend of $475 mil & increase of stock buyback program

5/9/12 10Q/A & 5/4/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31

4/30/12 8K amending emmployee 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: 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: 5/15/12 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: 5/11/12 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 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




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

3/22/12 & 3/12/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of stockholders on 4/24/12 10 am Charleston Convention Center, S.C.





JPMorganChase JPM: 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

3/1/12 8K re: 2/28/12 Investor Day Presentation




Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 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

3/28/12 8K re: new format for sales results





Kraft KFT: 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.

3/14/12 8K re: revolving credit agreement




McDonald's MCD: 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

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.




Merck MRK: 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: 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: 5/10/12 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 Inependent Director


3/21/12 Proxy materials re: annual meeting of stockhodlers 5/8/12 10 am River Centre, St. Paul, Minn




Travelers TRV: 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: 4/30/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/24/12 8K re: 1 qtr results

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




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: 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

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