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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, Atlanta Journal Constitution & Daily Report (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 Friday's stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.

Dow Jones Average 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.  For the year the Dow is up 4.5%. 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%.

Inv. Bus. Daily pB6 "NASDAQ confirms uptrend as Dow retakes 50 day" by Paul Whitfield says stocks sprinted ahead Fri as the NASDAQ confirmed that a new uptrend is under way.  Friday's action was up in higher volume as options expired.  The current outlook is the market is now in a confirmed uptrend.  IBM jumped 2% in 54% great volume.  IBM has the biggest effect on the Dow because it is the highest priced issue on the price weighted index.

 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 14.07 up from Saturday's trailing P/E ratio of 13.94 (year ago it was 13.61); Monday's P/E estimate is 12.05 up from Saturday's P/E estimate of 11.75 (year ago it was 12.01) and Monday's dividend yield is 2.62 down from Saturday's dividend yield of 2.66 (last year it was 2.50). The Dow's all-time high was 14,164.53 on Oct. 9, 2007. The 12 year low close for the Dow was on March 9, 2009 when it fell to 6,547.05.

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.

Monday's Dow News followed by Friday's Closing Dow numbers:

AT&T: Barron's p29 "A CEO's guide to retirement planning" by S.L. Mintz says when Mcdonald's CEO James Skinner retires this month he will have a retirement package of $48 mil.  A table lists the retirement packages of the CEOs of America's largest 20 largest firms by rev and half are Dow components are as follows:  #1. Walmart, 2. Exxon, 3. Chevron, 6. GE, 8. Bank of America, 9. Hewlett-Packard, 10. AT&T, 13. Verizon, 14. JPMorgan, and 17. IBM.

Alcoa:  No mentions found.

American Express: No mentions found.

Bank of America:  WSJ pC1 "Homeowner aid boosts big banks" by Chrisian Berthelsen says a gov program that helps homeowners take advantage of low interest rates to cut mortgage payments is giving a rev boost to large banks such as JPMorgan and Bank of America.

Barron's p29 "A CEO's guide to retirement planning" by S.L. Mintz says when Mcdonald's CEO James Skinner retires this month he will have a retirement package of $48 mil.  A table lists the retirement packages of the CEOs of America's largest 20 largest firms by rev and half are Dow components are as follows:  #1. Walmart, 2. Exxon, 3. Chevron, 6. GE, 8. Bank of America, 9. Hewlett-Packard, 10. AT&T, 13. Verizon, 14. JPMorgan, and 17. IBM.

Barron's p12 "Interview with Thomas Russo" by Andrew Bary says Berkshire make a killing when it bought 700 mil Bank of America warrants and that Unilever is a better investment than Procter & Gamble.

Boeing: No mentions found.

Caterpillar:  Barron's p21 "Tech sector payouts are set to surge" by Shirley Lazo says Apple, Microsoft, Intel and IBM will represent $22 bil or 85% of total tech dividend payments in '12.  Caterpillar and United Technologies bulked up their quarterly common dividends last week, each for the 19th straight year.  Dell is the second largest US PC maker after Hewlett-Packard, which has been paying dividends since '65, its current dividend is 31.2 cents for a 2.4% yield.

Chevron:    Barron's "The trader" by Vito J. Racanelli, Jacqueline Doherty says one analyst thinks if the euro ends, he would invest in Johnson & Johnson and IBM because they have strong dollar cash flows, don't need to borrow from banks and don't rely on gov spending.  Chevron, Exxon and Conoco distribute about 70% of the dividends paid by energy producers in a particular index.

  Barron's p29 "A CEO's guide to retirement planning" by S.L. Mintz says when Mcdonald's CEO James Skinner retires this month he will have a retirement package of $48 mil.  A table lists the retirement packages of the CEOs of America's largest 20 largest firms by rev and half are Dow components are as follows:  #1. Walmart, 2. Exxon, 3. Chevron, 6. GE, 8. Bank of America, 9. Hewlett-Packard, 10. AT&T, 13. Verizon, 14. JPMorgan, and 17. IBM.

Cisco:  Barron's p31 "Tech trader" by Tiernan Ray says Microsoft has $50 bil overseas and Cisco has $42.3 bil overseas.

Coke: No mentions found.

Disney:WSJ pB4 "Madagascar 3 holds off new box office challenges" by Erica Orden, WSL pB4 "In Brave, Pixar software piles on details, adds realism to movement"  say Disney's Brave will open Friday from Disney's Pixar.  Disney's Avengers took in $8.9 il this weekend for a cumulative world wide total of $1.42 bil.

Barron's p7 "Streetwise" by Michael Santoli says the market is preferring higher quality, more stable defensive stocks like Disney, Home Depot and Starbucks.

DuPont: No mentions found.

Exxon:    Barron's "The trader" by Vito J. Racanelli, Jacqueline Doherty says one analyst thinks if the euro ends, he would invest in Johnson & Johnson and IBM because they have strong dollar cash flows, don't need to borrow from banks and don't rely on gov spending.  Chevron, Exxon and Conoco distribute about 70% of the dividends paid by energy producers in a particular index.

  Barron's p29 "A CEO's guide to retirement planning" by S.L. Mintz says when Mcdonald's CEO James Skinner retires this month he will have a retirement package of $48 mil.  A table lists the retirement packages of the CEOs of America's largest 20 largest firms by rev and half are Dow components are as follows:  #1. Walmart, 2. Exxon, 3. Chevron, 6. GE, 8. Bank of America, 9. hewlett-Packard, 10. AT&T, 13. Verizon, 14. JPMorgan, and 17. IBM.

GE:  Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "GE trims exposure in Greece" says GE has minimized its business in Greece.  United Technologies said Thurs. that Europe's situation is worse than expected.

Barron's p29 "A CEO's guide to retirement planning" by S.L. Mintz says when Mcdonald's CEO James Skinner retires this month he will have a retirement package of $48 mil.  A table lists the retirement packages of the CEOs of America's largest 20 largest firms by rev and half are Dow components are as follows:  #1. Walmart, 2. Exxon, 3. Chevron, 6. GE, 8. Bank of America, 9. hewlett-Packard, 10. AT&T, 13. Verizon, 14. JPMorgan, and 17. IBM.

Barron's p42 "Mailbag"  is a letter that says  GE's CEO is on the President's Council on Jobs & Competitiveness and yet aggressively uses tax loopholes and ships jobs overseas.  Another letter defends CEO Jeff Immelt.

Hewlett-Packard:  Barron's p21 "Tech sector payouts are set to surge" by Shirley Lazo says Apple, Microsoft, Intel and IBM will represent $22 bil or 85% of total tech dividend payments in '12.  Caterpillar and United Technologies bulked up their quarterly common dividends last week, each for the 19th straight year.  Dell is the second largest US PC maker after Hewlett-Packard, which has been paying dividends since '65, its current dividend is 31.2 cents for a 2.4% yield.

  Barron's p29 "A CEO's guide to retirement planning" by S.L. Mintz says when Mcdonald's CEO James Skinner retires this month he will have a retirement package of $48 mil.  A table lists the retirement packages of the CEOs of America's largest 20 largest firms by rev and half are Dow components are as follows:  #1. Walmart, 2. Exxon, 3. Chevron, 6. GE, 8. Bank of America, 9. hewlett-Packard, 10. AT&T, 13. Verizon, 14. JPMorgan, and 17. IBM.

Home Depot:    Barron's p7 "Streetwise" by Michael Santoli says the market is preferring higher quality, more stable defensive stocks like Disney, Home Depot and Starbucks.

Intel:  Barron's p21 "Tech sector payouts are set to surge" by Shirley Lazo says Apple, Microsoft, Intel and IBM will represent $22 bil or 85% of total tech dividend payments in '12.  Caterpillar and United Technologies bulked up their quarterly common dividends last week, each for the 19th straight year.  Dell is the second largest US PC maker after Hewlett-Packard, which has been paying dividends since '65, its current dividend is 31.2 cents for a 2.4% yield.

  WSJ pB3 "IBM computer sets speed record" by Don Clark says an IBM system at Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory set teh top speed rating in the world ending Japn's one year reign.  Intel, Nvidia and IBM are targeting new computer chips for supercomputers.  IBM's Sequoia system carried out 16 quadrillion calculations a second or petaflops.

IBM:  WSJ pB3 "IBM computer sets speed record" by Don Clark says an IBM system at Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory set teh top speed rating in the world ending Japn's one year reign.  Intel, Nvidia and IBM are targeting new computer chips for supercomputers.  IBM's Sequoia system carried out 16 quadrillion calculations a second or petaflops.

Inv. Bus. Daily pB6 "NASDAQ confirms uptrend as Dow retakes 50 day" by Paul Whitfield says stocks sprinted ahead Fri as the NASDAQ confirmed that a new uptrend is under way.  Friday's action was up in higher volume as options expired.  The current outlook is the market is now in a confirmed uptrend.  IBM jumped 2% in 54% great volume.  IBM has the biggest effect on the Dow because it is the highest priced issue on the price weighted index.

  Barron's p29 "A CEO's guide to retirement planning" by S.L. Mintz says when Mcdonald's CEO James Skinner retires this month he will have a retirement package of $48 mil.  A table lists the retirement packages of the CEOs of America's largest 20 largest firms by rev and half are Dow components are as follows:  #1. Walmart, 2. Exxon, 3. Chevron, 6. GE, 8. Bank of America, 9. hewlett-Packard, 10. AT&T, 13. Verizon, 14. JPMorgan, and 17. IBM.

JPMorgan:  Fin Times p9 "Act now, Mr Dimon, or the outsiders will act first" by Mike Mayor says if banks don't clean up their act, they will face tough regulations.

WSJ pC1 "Homeowner aid boosts big banks" by Chrisian Berthelsen says a gov program that helps homeowners take advantage of low interest rates to cut mortgage payments is giving a rev boost to large banks such as JPMorgan and Bank of America.

WSJ pC8 "Repos still cast a shadow" by David Reilly says repos are an opaque part of the market due to their unknown size.

Barron's p4 "Rumors to the rescue" by alan Abelson says JPMorgan's CEO Jamie Dimon gave a slick performance before Congress last week.

Barron's p8 "Week review" says JPMorgan execs were alerted to London traders' risky practices 2 years before the bad trade.

Barron's p9 "Week preview" says on Tues 6/19 JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon appears before a House committee again to discuss trading losses.

Barron's "The trader" by Vito J. Racanelli, Jacqueline Doherty says one analyst thinks if the euro ends, he would invest in Johnson & Johnson and IBM because they have strong dollar cash flows, don't need to borrow from banks and don't rely on gov spending.  Chevron, Exxon and Conoco distribute about 70% of the dividends paid by energy producers in a particular index.

Barron's p29 "A CEO's guide to retirement planning" by S.L. Mintz says when Mcdonald's CEO James Skinner retires this month he will have a retirement package of $48 mil.  A table lists the retirement packages of the CEOs of America's largest 20 largest firms by rev and half are Dow components are as follows:  #1. Walmart, 2. Exxon, 3. Chevron, 6. GE, 8. Bank of America, 9. hewlett-Packard, 10. AT&T, 13. Verizon, 14. JPMorgan, and 17. IBM.

Johnson & Johnson:  Barron's "The trader" by Vito J. Racanelli, Jacqueline Doherty says one analyst thinks if the euro ends, he would invest in Johnson & Johnson and IBM because they have strong dollar cash flows, don't need to borrow from banks and don't rely on gov spending.  Chevron, Exxon and Conoco distribute about 70% of the dividends paid by energy producers in a particular index.

Kraft: No mentions found.

McDonald's: No mentions found.

Merck: No mentions found.

Microsoft:  Fin Times p7 "Specualtion mounts over Microsoft tablet" by Richard Waters,  Barron's p20 "Weekday Trader" by Bob O'Brien say on Mon Microsoft may unveil its own branded tablet that will copete with its own Windows partners' hardware.  Microsoft's tablet would copete with Apple's iPad and could mark a sea change in the 30 year history of the pc industry.

WSJ pB2 "Happening this week" says Microsoft will give developers a sneak peek at its new Windows Phone op system.

USA Today p1B "Tainted links move to search results" by Byron Acohido says Microsoft and Google are trying to eradicate poison search results used by byber criminals.

Barron's p21 "Tech sector payouts are set to surge" by Shirley Lazo says Apple, Microsoft, Intel and IBM will represent $22 bil or 85% of total tech dividend payments in '12.  Caterpillar and United Technologies bulked up their quarterly common dividends last week, each for the 19th straight year.  Dell is the second largest US PC maker after Hewlett-Packard, which has been paying dividends since '65, its current dividend is 31.2 cents for a 2.4% yield.

Barron's p31 "Tech trader" by Tiernan Ray says Microsoft has $50 bil overseas and Cisco has $42.3 bil overseas.

Pfizer: No mentions found.

Procter & Gamble:  Barron's p12 "Interview with Thomas Russo" by Andrew Bary says Berkshire make a killing when it bought 700 mil Bank of America warrants and that Unilever is a better investment than Procter & Gamble.

3M: No mentions found.

Travelers:No mentions found.

United Technologies:    Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 "GE trims exposure in Greece" says GE has minimized its business in Greece.  United Technologies said Thurs. that Europe's situation is worse than expected.

 Barron's p21 "Tech sector payouts are set to surge" by Shirley Lazo says Apple, Microsoft, Intel and IBM will represent $22 bil or 85% of total tech dividend payments in '12.  Caterpillar and United Technologies bulked up their quarterly common dividends last week, each for the 19th straight year.  Dell is the second largest US PC maker after Hewlett-Packard, which has been paying dividends since '65, its current dividend is 31.2 cents for a 2.4% yield.

Verizon:  Barron's p29 "A CEO's guide to retirement planning" by S.L. Mintz says when Mcdonald's CEO James Skinner retires this month he will have a retirement package of $48 mil.  A table lists the retirement packages of the CEOs of America's largest 20 largest firms by rev and half are Dow components are as follows:  #1. Walmart, 2. Exxon, 3. Chevron, 6. GE, 8. Bank of America, 9. hewlett-Packard, 10. AT&T, 13. Verizon, 14. JPMorgan, and 17. IBM.

Walmart:  Barron's p29 "A CEO's guide to retirement planning" by S.L. Mintz says when Mcdonald's CEO James Skinner retires this month he will have a retirement package of $48 mil.  A table lists the retirement packages of the CEOs of America's largest 20 largest firms by rev and half are Dow components are as follows:  #1. Walmart, 2. Exxon, 3. Chevron, 6. GE, 8. Bank of America, 9. hewlett-Packard, 10. AT&T, 13. Verizon, 14. JPMorgan, and 17. IBM.

Friday's Closing Dow Numbers:

Symbol	Last Sale	Change	% Change	Share Volume	Market
T	$35.8006	0.1106	0.31%	31,267,697	NYSE
AA	$8.81	0.16	1.85%	14,951,873	NYSE
AXP	$56.27	1.22	2.22%	5,700,237	NYSE
BAC	$7.89	0.23	3%	177,675,444	NYSE
BA	$71.98	0.13	0.18%	3,992,750	NYSE
CAT	$86.91	1.02	1.19%	5,425,278	NYSE
CVX	$104.41	2.49	2.44%	8,963,630	NYSE
CSCO	$17.1	0.18	1.06%	40,950,498	NASDAQ-GS
KO	$76.18	0.44	0.58%	7,964,817	NYSE
DIS	$47.125	0.055	0.12%	9,987,392	NYSE
DD	$50.27	0.72	1.45%	6,135,611	NYSE
GE	$19.99	0.27	1.37%	50,984,253	NYSE
HPQ	$21.655	0.065	0.3%	14,544,216	NYSE
HD	$51.98	0.18	0.35%	15,221,418	NYSE
INTC	$27.34	0.36	1.33%	47,643,508	NASDAQ-GS
IBM	$199.2401	4.1401	2.12%	5,183,316	NYSE
JPM	$35.0501	0.4001	1.15%	35,449,892	NYSE
JNJ	$66.02	0.57	0.87%	22,320,098	NYSE
KFT	$38.88	0.16	0.41%	8,587,475	NYSE
MCD	$90.61	0.89	0.99%	8,223,899	NYSE
MRK	$38.95	0.16	0.41%	13,599,011	NYSE
MSFT	$30.02	0.68	2.32%	59,571,467	NASDAQ-GS
PFE	$22.65	0.09	0.4%	30,502,811	NYSE

PG	$62.88	0.30	0.47%	13,815,222	NYSE
MMM	$87.44	0.58	0.67%	4,610,250	NYSE
TRV	$63.41	0.29	0.46%	4,017,042	NYSE
UTX	$74.49	0.35	0.47%	6,585,342	NYSE
VZ	$43.55	0.20	0.46%	19,806,358	DualListed
WMT	$67.75	0.12	0.18%	12,221,496	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 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