Friday, October 19, 2012

10/19/12 Fri pm Dow Closes at 13,343.51 down 205.43 or 1.52%

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Post No. 1,866 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 and recent Dow 30 components' SEC filings.

 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 13,343.51 down 205.43 or 1.52 % from Wednesday's close of 13,548.94.   For the week the Dow is  up 15.26 or .01 % from last Friday's close of 13,328.25.  Of the Dow components all 30 declined.  The biggest decliner dollar-wise and percentage-wise was McDonald's down $4.14 or 4.46%.


As of the open of the market on Thursday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C5 of  Friday's Wall St. Journal is 0.130216081. Friday's trailing P/E ratio is 14.70 down from yesterday's trailing P/E ratio of 14.71 (year ago it was 12.79); today's P/E estimate is 12.62 unchanged from Wednesday's P/E estimate of 12.62 (year ago it was 11.70) and today's dividend yield is 2.53 up from yesterday's dividend yield of 2.50 (last year it was 2.67). 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 1,737.54 down 26.75 from Thursday's closing numerator of 1,764.29. 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 (0.130216081) you get the decrease in today's Dow. A dollar increase or decrease in a Dow stock results in a $7.68 change in the Dow Index.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of  Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $57.92 down 89 cents from Wednesday's closing numerator of $58.81. The median closing price of  Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $53.78 (DIS/UNH) down 44 cents from Wednesday's median closing price of $54.22 (DIS/UNH). The lowest volume was 3M 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 or dividends) and sold at the close you would have lost $2,675 ($176,429 - 173,754).


MarketWatch.com Fri. 10/19/12 4:43 pm by Kate Gibson says U.S. stock fell sharply Friday, with the major indexes suffering their worst single-day drop since June, after disappointing earnings from heavy hitters, particularly in the tech sector.“We’ve had some household names disappointing on revenue, earnings or guidance. We had about 80 companies reporting this week: financials that did better and technology that did worse,” said Art Hogan, market strategist at Lazard Capital Markets LLC in New York.“Since this is the worst day we’ve had in months, it reminds us that we haven’t had much volatility or downward pressure since the bottom in June,” Hogan added.The Nasdaq Composite COMP -2.19%  declined 67.25 points, or 2.2%, to 3,005.62, with Friday’s slide pushing the index into negative turf for a second consecutive week, the most recent one down 1.3%. Weighing on the Nasdaq, shares of Apple Inc. AAPL +0.02%  dropped 3.6%.Francesco Guerrera and former SEC chairman David Ruder discuss his memories of the stock-market crash of 1987, and Chuck Jaffe says that while the stories of the crash are fresh, the actual losses have been forgotten.Next week about 140 S&P 500 SPX -1.66%  companies are scheduled to report, with the coming earnings to include companies from a broader range of sectors, including consumer, energy and industrials. If those sectors follow in technology’s wake, there would be more reason for concern, Hogan said.Retaining a weekly rise of 0.3%, the S&P 500 index dropped 24.15 points, or 1.7%, to 1,433.19, with consumer discretionary taking the biggest hit of its 10 major industry groups.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA -1.52%  slumped 205.43 points, or 1.5%, to 13,343.51, shaving its gain for the week to 0.1%.McDonald’s Corp. MCD -4.46%  paced blue-chip losses that included all but one of its 30 components. The fast-food chain’s shares sank 4.5% after it missed consensus estimates for the third quarter.“The earnings season is not great right now, but the fundamentals haven’t changed; the U.S. economy is still improving, and it hasn’t gotten worse in Asia or Europe,” said David Kelly, chief market strategist at J.P. Morgan Funds. After a strong run, “the market is taking a pause,” Kelly said.Also weighing on the Dow, Microsoft Corp. MSFT -2.90%  fell 2.9% after the software maker reported earnings beneath Wall Street’s expectations, and General Electric Co. GE -3.42%  retreated 3.4% after its third-quarter revenue came in short of forecasts. Wall Street’s focus is where it should be, on corporate earnings, which are “starting to slow down as expected in a typical third quarter,” said Chip Cobb, senior vice president at BMT Asset Management in Bryn Mawr, Penn. “It’s mildly disappointing because you want every quarter to be better than the last,” Cobb added.Off the Dow, Honeywell International Inc.’s HON +1.74%  shares rose 1.7% after the diversified manufacturer cut its 2012 sales forecast but reported quarterly income that beat forecasts.For every stock rising, more than three fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where almost 946 million shares traded. Composite volume neared 3.9 billion.Oil and gold prices also fell, with crude futures CLX2 -2.11%  off $2.05 at $90.05 a barrel and gold futures GCZ2 -1.27% losing $20.70 to $1,724 an ounce.The dollar DXY +0.37%  gained against other global currencies, including the euro EURUSD +0.03% , while Treasury yields fell, with the benchmark 10-year note 10_YEAR -3.75%  used in figuring the rate of home mortgages and other consumer loans down to 1.770%.Housing dataA trade group reported Friday that sales of existing homes declined 1.7% in September from a 7.8% rise the prior month. The data from the National Association of Realtors was in line with expectations, but as with Thursday, economic reports and events in Europe both took a back seat to corporate results. “Home sales did fall, but the supply of homes also fell, and if you look at the inventory of new and existing homes combined, there are 2.4 million total homes for sale in the U.S., the lowest since July 2002,” said Kelly.Homes for sale “peaked at 4.4 million in July of 2007, so we’re 2 million lower than just after the peak of the housing bubble,” said Kelly, who noted the lower supply should drive prices up, increase housing starts as well as household net worth, and lead to more confidence and bank lending.The heads of the 17-nation euro zone on Friday agreed to continue their pursuit of a banking supervisor. “The fact they for the most part have continued to give us moderately positive guidance has allowed us to focus attention on back here. Unless we have Spain or France saying ‘hey, we’re not going to play,’ then it’s a concern,” said Cobb, of the ongoing efforts to keep the borrowing costs of both nations under control in order to keep them in the euro zone.Friday’s sharp retreat comes 25 years after the worst single-session stock drop in history, with the Dow losing 23% of its value on Oct. 19, 1987. Stocks on Thursday fell for the first session this week after Google Inc.’s GOOG -0.20%  third-quarter earnings came in below expectations.

Friday's Closing Dow Numbers followed by Fri. am's Blog:


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
MCDNYSE
MRKNYSE
MSFTNASDAQ-GS
PFENYSE
PGNYSE
MMMNYSE
TRVNYSE
UNHNYSE
UTXNYSE
VZDualListed
WMTNYSE
F
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 13,548.94 down 8.06 or 0.06 % from Wednesday's close of 13,557.   For the year the Dow is up 10.90%.  Of the Dow components 13 gained, Procter & Gamble was unchanged and 16 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise   and percentage-wise was Travelers up $2.56 or 3.59%. The biggest decliner dollar-wise and percentage-wise was, again, IBM down $5.67 or 2.14 %.


As of the open of the market on Thursday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C5 of  Friday's Wall St. Journal is 0.130216081. Friday's trailing P/E ratio is 14.70 down from yesterday's trailing P/E ratio of 14.71 (year ago it was 12.79); today's P/E estimate is 12.62 unchanged from Wednesday's P/E estimate of 12.62 (year ago it was 11.70) and today's dividend yield is 2.53 up from yesterday's dividend yield of 2.50 (last year it was 2.67). 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 1,764.29 down 1.05 from Wednesday's closing numerator of 1,765.34. 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 (0.130216081) you get the decrease in today's Dow. A dollar increase or decrease in a Dow stock results in a $7.68 change in the Dow Index.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of  Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $58.81 down 3 cents from Wednesday's closing numerator of $58.84. The median closing price of  Thursday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $54.22 (DIS/UNH) up 10 cents from Wednesday's median closing price of $54.12 (DIS/UNH). The lowest volume was 3M 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 or dividends) and sold at the close you would have lost $105 ($176,534 - $176,429).


MarketWatch.com Thurs. 10/18/12 4:43 pm by Kate Gibson says U.S. stock indexes on Thursday fell for the first day this week as Google Inc.’s profit miss highlighted trouble in the tech sector and a rise in jobless claims offset upbeat manufacturing data.“As we saw in Google’s GOOG +0.73%  report, there are lots of high expectations in some of these widely held names, and when they don’t deliver, they can get hit pretty hard,” said Patrick O’Hare, chief market analyst at Briefing.com.The technology sector in particular is growth sensitive, with companies including Intel Corp. INTC -0.55%  and Applied Materials Inc. AMAT +0.27%   issuing warnings reflecting weakening demand.
“The spending environment has not been great within that sector, and there are concerns about end demand and how things are going to unfold,” said O’Hare.The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA -0.06% lost 8.06 points, or less than 0.1%, to end at 13,548.94, with International Business Machines Corp. IBM -2.83%  among its 11 decliners after the provider of technology services missed Wall Street’s sales forecasts with a 5% decline in the third quarter.Insurer Travelers Cos. TRV +3.59% was the top gainer in the Dow after its earnings more than doubled. The S&P 500 index SPX -0.24% retreated 3.57 points, or 0.2%, to 1,457.34, with technology hardest hit and telecommunications the best performer among its 10 major industry groups.The Nasdaq Composite COMP -1.01% shed 31.25 points, or 1%, to 3,072.87.In its worst percentage drop since January, Google shares declined 8% after the search engine’s third-quarter report was released ahead of schedule, with Google blaming printer R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. RRD -0.88%  for filing its quarterly statement early to the Securities and Exchange Commission.Decliners edged just past advancers on the New York Stock Exchange, where 719 million shares traded and composite volume topped 3.8 billion.
Equities briefly came off session lows after the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported regional manufacturing rebounded in October and the Conference Board’s index of leading economic indicators climbed 0.6% in September.Initial jobless claims rose by 46,000 to 388,000 last week, up from a revised 342,000 the prior week, with the four-week average at 366,000 versus 365,000 the week before. The price of crude oil CLX2 -0.07% fell 2 cents to $92.10 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Stocks have been stuck in a range, with the S&P 500 trading between 1,430 and 1,470 or so in recent weeks, said Mike McGervey, president of McGervey Wealth Management in North Canton, Ohio, who lists the slowdown in China, Europe’s troubles and the “dysfunctional” U.S. fiscal policy as among the wild cards compressing stocks prices.China said its economy continued to slow in the third quarter. The news came just weeks before it embarks on a once-a-decade change in leadership, compounding concerns about one of the world's major engines of growth.“What is still very under-appreciated in the market is that when we talk about the fiscal cliff, everyone says we need to compromise. But compromise can still have a destructive outcome. And the idea of an adverse outcome is not in the market,” said O’Hare of the automatic tax increases and spending cuts that would occur on Jan. 1, 2013, if Congress isn’t able to reach a deficit-reduction agreement.Pacific Investment Management Co. on Thursday said the U.S. credit rating would be cut as the drama over the so-called fiscal cliff plays out, Bloomberg News reported. “The U.S. will get downgraded; it’s a question of when,” said Scott Mather, Pimco’s head of global portfolio management, according to the news service. That said, “Pimco expects the debate over the fiscal cliff will end in fiscal consolidation, but not a fiscal catastrophe. Of the $700-billion-plus in potential fiscal contraction on the table, we expect around $200 billion to $250 billion to actually materialize,” Josh Thimons, chairman of Pimco’s America’s portfolio committee, said emailed commentary.
Lam Research Corp. LRCX +7.24% shares rallied a day after the semiconductor-equipment maker reported fiscal first-quarter revenue and earnings that beat estimates. “Everyone was braced going into the fourth quarter from what we might expect from third-quarter earnings, and so far it’s not quite as gloomy as many of us were expecting,” said McGervey. BB&T Corp. BBT -7.10% fell after the bank reported third-quarter profit below estimates.Philip Morris International Inc.’s PM -4.19% shares declined after the tobacco company reported earnings below estimates.

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

AT&T:

Alcoa:

American Express:

Bank of America:

Boeing:

Caterpillar:

Chevron:

Cisco:

Coke:

Disney:

DuPont:

Exxon:

GE:

Hewlett-Packard:

Home Depot:

Intel:

IBM:

JPMorgan:

Johnson & Johnson:

McDonald's:

Merck:

Microsoft:  Microsoft's profit fell $4.47 bil or 53 cents pe share in 1Q vs. $5.7 bil or 68 cent a share last year.

Pfizer:

Procter & Gamble:

3M:

Travelers:

UnitedHealth:

United Technologies:

Verizon:  Verizon Comm's 3Q net income rose 15.5% to $1.59 bil on rev of $29 bil which rev was up 3.9%.

Walmart:

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
MCDNYSE
MRKNYSE
MSFTNASDAQ-GS
PFENYSE
PGNYSE
MMMNYSE
TRVNYSE
UNHNYSE
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)

McDonald's MCD Donald 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)

UnitedHealthUNC Stephen Hemsley (Minnetonka, MN)

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 10,4/12 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 $426.5 [4.5]
2. Microsoft MSFT 252 [8.5]
3.WalMart WMT 251 [3.5]
4. GE 242.5 [10.5]
5. IBM 240.5 [1]6. Chevron CVX 230 [2]
7. AT&T T 221 [6]
8. Procter & Gamble PG 191.5 [3]
9. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 191 [3]
10. Pfizer PFE 189.5 [7.5]
11. Coke KO 172.5 [4.5]
12. JPMorgan Chase JPM 159 [4]
13. Merck MRK 140.5 [3]
14. Verizon VZ 134.5 [3]
15. Intel INTC 112.5 [5]16. Cisco CSCO 100 [5.5]
17. Disney DIS 94.5 [2]
18. Home Depot HD 93 [1.5] 19. McDonald's MCD 92 [1]
20. Bank of America BAC 101.5 [10.5]
21. United Technologies UTX 71.5 [1]
22. American Express AXP 66 [1]
23. 3M MMM 65 [.5]
24. UnitedHealth UNH 60 [1]
25. Caterpillar CAT 56 [.5]
26. Boeing BA 52.5 [1]
27. DuPont DD 46.5 [1]
28. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 29.5 [2]
29. Travelers TRV 26.5 [.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 10/4/12:

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

AT&T T: 6/29/12 8K re: election of Scott F. Ford as Director
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

Alcoa AA: 10/3/12 8K re: EPA remedial plan for Grasse River
7/26/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
7/13/12 8K re: Transcript of 2Q earnings call
7/10/12 8K re: 2Q results


American Express AXP: 10/1/12 8K re: settlement re: U.S. card practices with regulators
9/17/12 8K re: delinq & write-off stats for June, July & Aug
8/15/12 8K re: dlinq. & write0off stats for months of May, June, and July
8/8/12 8K re: presentation from semi-annual Fin'l Community Meeting
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
7/20/12 8K re: election of David L. Vasella (Chairman of Bd. of Novartis) as Director
7/18/12 8K re: 2Q results
7/16/12 8K re: credt stats through 6/30/12
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


Bank of Am BAC: 9/28/12 8K re: settlement re: $1.6 bil regarding Merrill Lynch purchase
8/23/12 8K re: 4 new directors: Sharon Allen, Jack Bovender, Linda Hudson & David Yost
8/10/12 8K re: retirement of Vice Chiar Charles H. Noski as of 9/1
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
7/18/12 8K re: 2Q results




Boeing BA: 8/29/12 8K re: bylaw amendments
7/25/12 10Q and 8K re: 2nd quarter results ended 6/30/12
6/26/12 8K re: selection of Raymond L. Conner to replace Jim Albaugh as Pres/CEO of Boeing Comm'l Airplanes
5/3/12 8K re: amendment to bylaws reducing number of directors from 12 to 114/25/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31


Caterpillar CAT: 9/28/12 8K re: price increases
9/21/12 8K re: Aug. dealer stats
9/17/12 8K re: credit agreement for $100 mil
9/7/12 S-4; 8/28/12 8K & 8/20/12 8K all re: exchange offer for debentures

8/17/12 8K re: 3 mos. dealer stats
8/10/12 8K re: debenture exchange
8/6/12 10Q re: quarter ended 6/30/12
7/27 8K re: debenture exchange
7/24/12 8K re: 3 mos. dealer states
6/26/12 8K re: safety problems at Wyoming mine
6/25/12 8K re: underwriting agreement re: issuance of $1.5 bil of debt
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


Chevron CVX: 10/3/12 8K re: election of Dr. Alice P. Gast to Board
8/2/12 10Q & 7/27/12 8K re: 2 Qtr. results ended 6/30/12
7/11/12 8K re: guidance for 2Q
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


Cisco CSCO : 10/4/12 8K re: appointment of Gary B. Moore as Pres & other exec appointments
9/26/12 14A Proxy re: Annual Shareholders Meeting on 11/15/12 at Santa Clara,CA
9/19/12 8K re: departure of Jerry Yang from Board
9/12/12 10K for year ended July 28 '12
8/15/12 8K re: 4Q and FY '12 earnings
8/2/12 8K re: appointment to Bd. of CEO of salesforce.com Marc Benioff and Kristina M. Johnson, CEO of enduring Hydro, LLC
6/27/12 8K re; execs' pre-arranged stock trading plan
6/13/12 8K re: director's pre-arranged stock trading plan


Coke KO: 9/14/12 8K re: exec changes
8/23/12 8K re: shareholder approval of stock split
7/1 8K re: new operating structure
7/27/12 8K re: Amendment to Articles of Incorp. to increase auth. shares & 2 for 1 stock split
'7/26/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/29/12
7/17/12 8K re; 2Q results
7/10/12 8K re: approval of shareholders for stock split


Disney DIS: 8/7/12 10Q & 8/7/12 8K results for 3rd quarter ended 6/30/12
6/11/12 8K re: $2.25 bil 5 year credit agreement


DuPont DD: 9/4/12 8K re: sale of Performance Coatings Div to Carlyle Group for $4.9 bil
7/24/12 8K and 7/24/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
5/1/12 8K re: Annual meeting of stockholders results

ExxonMobil XOM: 8/2/12 10Q & 7/26/12 8K re: 2Q results ended 6/30/12
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


GE: 7/30/12 10Q re: quarter ended 6/30/12
7/30/12 8K re: election of John J. Brennan to Bd., he is Chairman Emeritus of Vanguard
7/23/12 8K re: resignation of John Krenicki as Vice Chair & exec officer at year end
7/20/12 8K re: 2Q results
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



Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 10/3/12 8K e: earnings outlook for '13 fiscal year
9/10/12 10Q & 8/22/12 8K re: quarter ended 7/31/12
8/8/12 8K re: write-down due to impairment of goodwill
6/8/12 10Q re: quarter ended 4/30/12



Home Depot HD: 9/21/12 8K re: election of mark Vadon to Board
8/22/12 10Q for qtr ended 7/29/12
8/14/12 8K re: quarter ended 7/29
8/7/12 8K re: purchase of U.S. Home systems and related Proxy statement


Intel INTC: 9/12/12 8K re: closed pruchase of ASWML Holding for $3.1 bil
9/7/12 8K re: lowering 3Q rev outlook
8/1/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
7/18/12 2 8Ks re: 2Q results
7/9/12 8K re; purchase of 10% of ASML for $2.1 bil



IBM: 9/25/12 8K re: election of Virginia M. Rometty as Chair of Board
8/1/12 8K re: closing of sale of IBM's Retail Store Solutions biz to Toshiba Tec
7/31/12 10Q for period ended 6/30/12
7/27/12 8K re: underwriting agreement for 1.875% notes due '22
7/19/12 & 7/18/12 8Ks re: 2Q results



JPMorganChase JPM: 9/24/12 8K re: offering of $3 bil of 3.25% Note due '22
9/19/12 8K re: clsoing of 2.9% Notes due '17
8/27/12 8K re: isswuance of 5.5% non-cumulative Pref shares, Series O
8/20/12 8K re: closing of $2.5 bil 2% Notes due '17
8/9/12 10Q for period ended 6/30/12
7/27/12 8K re: exec changes
7/13/12 8K re: 2Q results
7/13/12 8K re: restatement of 1Q results
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



Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 8/16/12 8K re: discontinuance of bapineuzumbab trials
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/1/12
7/20/12 8K re: settlement of shareholder deriv case in US Dist CT NJ
7/17/12 8K re: 2Q results
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



McDonald's MCD: 9/28/12 8K re: adoption of accoutning standard
9/24/12 8K re: quarterly cash div
9/12/12 8K re: sales increase of 3.7% in Aug.
8/9/12 8K re: July '12 sales
8/6/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
7/23/12 8K re; 2Q results
7/20/12 8K re: various amendments to By-laws
6/18/12 8K re: stocks options to Donald Thompson CEO as of 7/1
6/11/12 8K re: May '12 sales



Merck MRK: 9/13/12 8K re: closing of sale of notes
8/7/12 10Q & 7/27/12 8K re: results of second quarter ended 6/30/12
5/25/12 8K re: voting results of 5/22 Annual meeting of shareholders


Microsoft MSFT: 9/18/12 8K re: increase in quarterly div & retirement of Raymond Gilmartin from Board
7/26/12 10K for year ended 6/30/12
7/19/12 8K re: 4Q & full year results
7/2/12 8K re: write-down to Online Services Div
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

Pfizer PFE: 8/14/12 8K re: purchase of marketing rights to OTC Nexium from AstraZeneca
8/9/12 10Q & 7/31/12 8K re: results of 2 Qtr ended 7/1/12
5/23/12 8K re: exec promotions
5/10/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/1
5/1/12 8K re: 1 qtr results



Procter & Gamble PG: 9/21/12 14A proxy re: candidate for Board
9/6/12 8K re: FD disclosure re: Barcaly's Back to School consumer conf.
8/24/12 14A Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders on 10/9/12 in Cincinnati
8/16/12 Form 8-A & 8/16 & 8/14/12 8Ks re sales of notes
8/8/12 10K and 8/3/12 2 8Ks all re: fourth quarter results for year ended 6/30/12
7/18/12 8K re: Board proclaims support for CEO Bob McDonald
7/10/12 8K re: quarterly dividend of 0.562 cents per share
6/20/12 8K re: Deutsche Bank Conference Reg. FD disclosures


3M MMM: 10/3/12 8K re: $1.5 bil revolving credit agreement
10/1/12 8K re: contract to purchase Ceradyne Inc. for $35 per share
8/29/12 K re: $150 mil credit agreement
8/2/12 & 7/26/12 8K re: 2nd quarter results for quarter ended 6/30/12
7/26/12 8K re: sale of notes
6/26/12 8K re: issuance of $1.25 bil of notes
5/10/12 & 5/412 8Ks re: adoption of exec pre-arranged stock trading plans


Travelers TRV: 7/19/12 10Q & 7/19/12 8K re: results of quarter ender 6/30/12
5/25/12 8K re: voting results of 5/23 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

UnitedHealth Group UNH: 9/10/12 re: FD disclosure re: Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference
8/7/12 10Q re: quarter ended 6/30/12


United Technologies UTX: 9/12/12 8K re: election of Marshall Larsen to Board
7/31/12 8K re: purchase of Silver II for $3.46 bil
7/26/12 10Q & 7/26/12 8K re: results of 2nd qtr ended 6/30/12 & closing of Goodrich purchase and board and exec changer
6/18/12 8K re: issuance of equity unites
6/1/12 8K re: issuance of $9.8 bil of notes


Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 7/30/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12
7/19/12 Form S-3 re: registration of 29,750,000 shares
7/19/12 & 7/18/12 8Ks re: 2Q results
5/9/12 8K re: results of annual shareholders meeting


WalMart WMT: 9/6/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/31/12
8/16/12 8K re: 2 Qtr results
7/30/12 8K re: election to Board of Tim Flynn, former Chairman of KPMG
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
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