Tuesday, January 8, 2013

1/8/13 Tues. am Fire on Boeing Dreamliner; Bank of America to Pay $10 Bil

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Post No. 1,988 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 ranking of the Dow 30 components by market capitalization as of 1/1/13 and recent Dow 30 components' SEC filings as of 1/1/13.


A read of the print editions of Tuesday'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 Monday's stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.

Dow Jones Industrail Average: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Monday at 13,384.29 down 50.92 or 0.38% from Friday's close of 13,435.21. For the year the Dow is up 2.14%. Of the Dow components 12 gained, UnitedHealth was unchanged and 17 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise and percentage-wise was McDonald's up $1.06 or 1.18%. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was  Boeing down $1.56 and percentage-wise was Disney down 2.38%.

WSJ pC4 "Stocks bulls palce bet on earnings growth" by Alexandra Scaggs says some investors are hoping that Alcoa's results Tues will give stocks a lift.

NYT pB7 "Cautious day pulls S&P from its 5 year high" by Ap says investors started the week cuatiously on Mon.  JPMorgan bAnk of America and other sagreed to pay $8.5 bil to settle mortgate abuse claims.

IBD pB2 "Stocks take small breather from last week's big gains" by Vicnent Mao stocks kicked off the first full trading week of '13 on a down note Mon as stocks slipped in lower trade but the current outlook is still a confirmed uptrend.

FT p24 "Fin'ls sldie despite reprive for banks on liquidity standards" by Arash Massoudi says US equities pulled back froma  5 year high Mon with fin'l stocks dragging Wall St. lower as top banks agreed to pay out more than $20 bil to settle mortgage abuse claims.  Boeing fell 2% after a 787 caught fire.  Disney fell 2.3% after REuters said it was considering lay offs.

AJC pA7 "Dow Jones down 0.4%" says stocks closed lower pulling the S&P down from its 5 year high it reached last week.

As of the open of the market on Tuesday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C6 of Tuesday's Wall St. Journal is 0.130216081. Tuesday's trailing P/E ratio is 14.43 down  from yesterday's opening trailing P/E ratio of 14.92 (year ago it was 13.40); today's P/E estimate is 12.22 unchanged from Monday' s opening P/E estimate of 12.22 (year ago it was 11.92) and today's dividend yield is 2.63 down  from yesterday's opening dividend yield of 2.64 (last year it was 2.58). The Dow's all-time high was 14,164.53 on Oct. 9, 2007. The 12 year low close for the Dow was on March 9, 2009 when it fell to 6,547.05.

Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average closing numerator was 1,742.85 down 6.63 from Friday's closing numerator of 1,749.48. 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 Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $58.09 down 23 cents from Friday's average of $58.32. The median closing price of Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $51.52 (DIS/UNH) down 62 cents from Friday's median closing price of $52.14. The lowest volume was Travelers and the highest volume again was Bank of America.

If Monday morning before the market opened you had purchased 100 shares of each of the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 shares (assuming you could buy fractional shares and assuming no transaction costs or dividends) and sold at the close you would have lost $663 ($174,948 - 174,285).

Monday 1/7/13 MarketWatch 4:27 pm by Kate Gibson says U.S. stocks fell on Monday, with the S&P 500 index retreating from a five-year high, as Wall Street looked to the next day’s start of the fourth-quarter earnings season. The S&P 500 index SPX -0.31%  fell 4.58 points, or 0.3%, to end at 1,461.89, with utilities and energy leading the declines and health care and telecommunications faring best among its 10 major sectors.The benchmark rose 4.6% last week to its highest close since Dec. 31, 2007. Alcoa fourth-quarter results on Tuesday kick off earnings season and the Consumer Electronics Show heats up Las Vegas.With the threat of steep spending cuts and tax hikes averted, and the next showdown over the debt ceiling not likely to concern investors until February, Wall Street will shift its focus to results from American corporations.“Earnings do matter, but what may be as important is the outlook for the first quarter,” said Jim Russell, chief equity strategist and regional investment director at U.S. Bank Wealth Management.“The equities market is trying so hard to find the all-clear signal, but we think managements will indicate the quarter slowed from October through December, so a slow start to 2013,” he said.“The fourth quarter could tend to be a bit bumpy this time around, with the outlook for the first quarter cautious because of the Washington situation,” said Russell of the coming showdown over raising the U.S. debt ceiling.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA -0.38%  dropped 50.92 points, or 0.4%, to end at 13,384.29, with Walt Disney Co. DIS -2.34%  and Boeing Co. BA -2.01%  among the top decliners in the 30-component benchmark.Intel Corp. INTC +0.43%  was one of the gainers in the Dow, its shares up 0.4% after Lazard Capital Markets upgraded the chip maker.Intel, along with Qualcomm Inc. QCOM +0.80%  and some other tech companies, are holding media presentations Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Nasdaq Composite index COMP -0.09%  declined 2.84 points, or 0.1%, to 3,098.81. More than 625 million shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Composite volume exceeded 3.27 billion. Shares of Illumina Inc. ILMN -7.06%  fell 7.1% after Roche Holding AG RHHBY -0.14%   CH:ROG -0.53%  said it would not be making an offer for the maker of DNA-sequencing.Walgreen Co. WAG +2.29%  added 2.3% after Jefferies Group Inc. raised its rating of the drugstore chain to buy from hold. Yahoo Inc. YHOO -2.32%  declined 2.3% after Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. downgraded shares of the search engine.Amazon.com Inc. AMZN +3.59%  gained 3.6% after Morgan Stanley upgraded it. Alcoa Inc. AA -1.73%  reports after Tuesday’s close, with the aluminum producer the first Dow component slated to release fourth-quarter results.Mortgage lender Wells Fargo & Co. WFC -0.49%  reports earnings Friday.
On Capitol Hill, Republicans are linking raising the U.S. debt ceiling to reduced spending on entitlement programs including Medicare. Congress has to move as soon as mid-February to keep the country out of default. The CBOE volatility index VIX -0.29% , a gauge of investor uncertainty, had its biggest weekly drop ever, as fear over the fiscal cliff gave way to relief that a deal had been reached. “The meteoric rise we’ve had in the last week is certainly not sustainable. We had a sizable can kicked down the road, and only kicked a couple of months out,” said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab & Co. Inc.“We’ve had so many distractions the last couple of earnings seasons. The unfortunate thing is I’m not sure earnings are going to be all that good,” said Frederick.Still, “expectations have been lowered enough so that even though Q4 earnings will be mediocre at best,” the results should be priced into the market, said Frederick.

Tuesday's Dow News followed by Monday's Closing Dow Numbers:

AT&T:  No mentions found.

Alcoa:USAT p6B "USA markets" by Adam Shell says Alcoa reported results after the market closed Mon.

American Express:  No mentions found.

Bank of America:  NYT pA1 "In Deal, big bank extends retreat from mortgages" by Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Peter Eavis,& same story at AJC pA5 "Bank of America to pay $10 Bi", NYT pB1 'Banks to pay $8.5 Bil to speed up housing relief" by Jessica Sivler-Greenberg, WSJ pA1 "Big banks settle mortgage hangover" by Shayndi Raice, Nick Timiraos, Dan Fitzpatrick, WSJ pC10 "BofA's winding mortgage road" by David Reilly, USA Today p1B "Foreclosure abuse case settled for $8.5 B" by Julie Schmit, USA Today p2B "BofA settles with Fannie Mae for $10B" by Kim Hjelmgaard, IBD pA1 "Banks add $20 bil in settlement deals over housing bust" by Jason Ma, FT p1 "US banks to pay out $20bn over home loans" by Tom Braithwaite, Shahien Nasripour, FT p16 "BofA deal is at a high cost but eases fears" by Shahien Nasiripour, Tom Braithwaite    say This will be paid to Fannie Mae due to loans issued by Countrywide subsidiary. Other banks will pay including JPMorgan for similar abuses.

Boeing:  WSJ pB1 "Anotehr fire hits Dreamliner" by Jon Ostrower, Jack Nicas, NYT pB5 "Boeing 787 suffers a battery fire in Boston" by Reuters say this one was at  a 3 week old 787 at a Japan Airlines flight at Boston's Logan Airport just after everyone had kleft the plane.  It was in the aft elec5tical equipment bay whee othe fires have been in other 787s.

FT p24 "Fin'ls sldie despite reprive for banks on liquidity standards" by Arash Massoudi says US equities pulled back froma 5 year high Mon with fin'l stocks dragging Wall St. lower as top banks agreed to pay out more than $20 bil to settle mortgage abuse claims. Boeing fell 2% after a 787 caught fire. Disney fell 2.3% after REuters said it was considering lay offs.

Caterpillar:  No mentions found.

Chevron:  No mentions found.

Cisco:  No mentions found.

Coke:  No mentions found.

Disney:  FT p24 "Fin'ls sldie despite reprive for banks on liquidity standards" by Arash Massoudi says US equities pulled back froma 5 year high Mon with fin'l stocks dragging Wall St. lower as top banks agreed to pay out more than $20 bil to settle mortgage abuse claims. Boeing fell 2% after a 787 caught fire. Disney fell 2.3% after REuters said it was considering lay offs.

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: NYT pA1 "In Deal, big bank extends retreat from mortgages" by Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Peter Eavis,& same story at AJC pA5 "Bank of America to pay $10 Bi", NYT pB1 'Banks to pay $8.5 Bil to speed up housing relief" by Jessica Sivler-Greenberg, WSJ pA1 "Big banks settle mortgage hangover" by Shayndi Raice, Nick Timiraos, Dan Fitzpatrick, WSJ pC10 "BofA's winding mortgage road" by David Reilly, USA Today p1B "Foreclosure abuse case settled for $8.5 B" by Julie Schmit, USA Today p2B "BofA settles with Fannie Mae for $10B" by Kim Hjelmgaard, IBD pA1 "Banks add $20 bil in settlement deals over housing bust" by Jason Ma, FT p1 "US banks to pay out $20bn over home loans" by Tom Braithwaite, Shahien Nasripour, FT p16 "BofA deal is at a high cost but eases fears" by Shahien Nasiripour, Tom Braithwaite say This will be paid to Fannie Mae due to loans issued by Countrywide subsidiary. Other banks will pay including JPMorgan for similar abuses.

Johnson & Johnson:  No mentions found.

McDonald's:  AJC pA5 "McDonald's expands test flight for chicken wings" by Candice Coi, AP says they will be offered now in Chicago following run in Atlanta last year.

Merck:  No mentions found.

Microsoft:  No mentions found.

Pfizer:  No mentions found.

Procter & Gamble:  No mentions found.

3M:  No mentions found.

Travelers:  No mentions found.

UnitedHealth:  No mentions found.

United Technologies:  No mentions found.

Verizon:  No mentions found.

Walmart:   No mentions found.

Monday'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) (has announced retirement in May '13)

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 1/1/13 ranked in order of market capitalization in billions:

1. Exxon Mobil XOM $394.61
2. WalMart WMT 228.25
3. Microsoft MSFT 224.80
4. GE 220.11
5. IBM 216.44
6. Chevron CVX 211.65
7. AT&T T 194.47
8. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 194.27
9. Procter & Gamble PG 185.63
10. Pfizer PFE 184.65
11. JPMorgan Chase JPM 167.14
12. Coke KO 162.59
13. Bank of America BAC 125.13
14. Merck MRK 124.46
15. Verizon VZ 123.49
16. Cisco CSCO 104.32
17. Intel INTC 102.61
18. Home Depot HD 92.48
19. McDonald's MCD 88.56
20. Disney DIS 88.23
21. United Technologies UTX 75.17
22. American Express AXP 64.32
23. 3M MMM 64.25
24. Caterpillar CAT 58.60
25. Boeing BA 56.83
26. UnitedHealth UNH 55.41
27. DuPont DD 41.94
28. Travelers TRV 27.40
29. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 27.76
30. Alcoa AA 9.26

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Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 1/1/13:

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

AT&T T: 12/18/12 8K re: issuance of long term Global Notes
12/17/12 8K re: sales of 1 bil in Euros of 3.5% of Global Notes due 2032
12/12/12 8K re: extension of $5 bil revolving credit agreement
12/11/12 8K re: closing of sale of $4bil of Global Notes
12/4/12 8K re: underwriting agreement Global Notes due '20
11/20/12 8K re: Announcemnt of reference yield of notes & results of exchange offer
11/2/12 10Q for 3Q ended 9/30/12
10/24/12 2 8Ks (10/24) re: 3Q results
10/19/12 8K re: in-kind contrib. to pension plans

Alcoa AA: 10/25/12 re: 3Q ended 9/30/12
10/15/12 8K re: transcript of 3Q earnings call
10/10/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/3/12 8K re: EPA remedial plan for Grasse River

American Express AXP: 12/17/12 8K re: delinq. & write-of stats for 3 months ended 11/30/12
12/12/12 8K re: results of notes exchange offer
11/28/12 8K results of private exchange offer
11/27/12 8K re: terms of privte exchange offer
11/15/12 8K re: write-off credit stats Aug., Sept., Oct
11/13/12 8K re: announcement of private offer
10/31/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/17/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/15/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats for 3 mos. ended 9/30
10/1/12 8K re: settlement re: U.S. card practices with regulators


Bank of Am BAC: 11/5/12 8K re: redemption of sub debentures
11/2/12 10Q 3Q ended 9/30
10/17/12 8K re: 3Q results
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 Chair Charles H. Noski as of 9/1
8/2/12 10Q for quarter ended 6/30/12


Boeing BA: 12/19/12 8K re: award of stock options to execs
12/17/12 8K re: increase of quarterly div. & resumption of share buyback program
10/24/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/24/12 8K re: 3Q rsults
10/17/12 8K re: two $2.3 bil credit agreements


Caterpillar CAT: 12/20/12 8K re: supplemental info re: sales of machines & power systems
12/17/12 8K re: retirement from Bd. of Eugene V. Fife due to mandatory retirement age
11/20/12 8K re: 3 months dealer stats
11/6/12 8K re: executive compensation for Group Pres.
11/6/12 Prospetus for exchange offer of debentures
11/2/12 10Q 3Q eneded 9/30
10/22/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/19/12 8K re: Sept. dealer stats
10/12/12 8K re: officer changes


Chevron CVX: 12/5/12 8K re: issuance of $2 bil of notes
11/6/12 10Q Qtr. ended 9/30/12
11/2/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: 3Q interim results
10/3/12 8K re: election of Dr. Alice P. Gast to Board


Cisco CSCO: 12/21/12 & 12/19/12 8Ks re: execs' pre-arranged stock trading plan
11/20/12 10Q & 11/13/12 8K re: Qtr. ended 10/27
11/16/12 8K re: amdmt to exec. comp. plan
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


Coke KO: 10/25/12 10Q re: 3Q ended 9/28
10/16/12 8K re: 3Q results
9/14/12 8K re: exec changes


Disney DIS: 11/29/12 8K re: issuance of $2 bil Global Notes
11/21/12 10K & 11/8/12 8K re: results year ended 9/29
10/30/12 8K re: Disney to acquire Lucasfilm


DuPont DD: 10/23/12 10Q & 8K & 10/9 8K all re: 9/30 Q results
9/4/12 8K re: sale of Performance Coatings Div to Carlyle Group for $4.9 bil


ExxonMobil XOM: 12/4/12 8K re: grant of bonus to CEO tillerson of $4.5 mil
11/30/12 8K re: retirement of SVP D.D. Humphreys
11/6/12 10Q for Qtr ended 9/30
11/2/12 8K re: elecgtion of CEO of Xerox, Ursula M. Burns to Bd
11/1/12 8K re: 3Q results


GE: 12/13/12 8K re: revised segment fin'l info for prior 2 qtrs.
11/7/12 10Q for Qtr ended 9/30
10/19/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: Offering of $7 bil of notes (closing)


Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 12/27/12 10K for year ended 10/31/12
11/20/12 8K re: results year ended 10/31
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

Home Depot HD: 11/21/12 10Q & 11/13/12 8K re: 4Q ended 10/28
11/16/12 8K re: resignation of Ron L. Sargent from BOD
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: 12/14/12 8K re: issuance of $175 mil of 4.2% due 2042
12/11/12 8K re: issuance of $6 bil of notes
12/6/12 & 12/4/12 8Ks re: issuance of $6 bil of Notes
12/4/12 8K re: adoption of FASB standard
11/19/12 8K re: retirement of Paul S. Otellini at May Annual Mtg. of Shareholders
10/31/12 10Q & 10/17 8K & 10/16 8K all re: 9/29 Q results
9/12/12 8K re: closed pruchase of ASWML Holding for $3.1 bil
9/7/12 8K re: lowering 3Q rev outlook

IBM: 11/16/12 8K re: sale of 1.375% Notes
11/5/12 8K re: bae salary of $1.5 mil for CEO Virginia Rometty
10/30/12 & 10/17 8K & 10/16 8K all re: 3Q results ended 9/30
10/12/12 8K reL election of Virginia M. Rometty to Chrmn of Bd.
9/25/12 8K re: election of Virginia M. Rometty as Chair of Board


JPMorganChase JPM: 12/5/12 8K re: Mark W. O'Donovan is now Controller
12/4/12 8K re: slides from U.S. fin'l services inv. conf.
12/4/12 8K re: reorganization
11/21/12 8K re: Marianne Lake is now CFO, other appointments
11/8/12 10Q for Qtr ended 9/30
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


Johnson & Johnson JNJ: 12/3/12 8K re: CEO Alex Gorsky replaces Bill Weldon as Chiar of BOD eff. 12/28
11/9/12 8K re: Eugene Washington is on BOD
11/9/12 10Q for Qtr ended 9/30
10/16/12 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30


McDonald's MCD: 12/13/12 8KA & 12/11/12 re global sales
12/4/12 8K & 11/15/12 8K re: Jeff Stratton succeeds Janice Fields as Pres. of McDonald's USA
11/9/12 8K re: global sales decreased 1.8% in Oct.
11/1/12 10Q & 10/19 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
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.


Merck MRK: 11/29/12 8K re: Amendment to Control seperation Benefits Plan
11/9/12 10Q re: Qtr ended 9/30
10/26/12 8K re: 3Q results
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



Microsoft MSFT: 11/29/12 8K re: results of annual shareholders mtg.
11/16/12 8K re: resignation of Steven Sinofsky as Pres. of Windows Div.
11/7/12 8K re: issuance of $2.25 bil of notes
11/2/12 8K & 10/18 10Q & 10/18 8K re: 1Q results
10/17 & 10/10 & 10/9 Proxy materials re: 11/28 Annual Meeting of Shareholders at Bellevue, Wash
10/9/12 8K re: retirement of Reed Hastings from Bd & other Bd. changes
9/18/12 8K re: increase in quarterly div & retirement of Raymond Gilmartin from Board


Pfizer PFE: 11/9/12 10Q re: Qtr ended 9/30
11/1/12 8K re: 3Q results
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



Procter & Gamble PG: 10/25/12 10Q & two 8Ks 10/25 re 1Q results ended 9/30
10/12/12 re: '12 Annual Shareholder Mtg results
10/9/12 8K re: dividend of 0.562 cents per share payable on 11/15 to 10/19 record holders
10/9/12 re: CEO's speech at Shareholder Mtg
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



3M MMM: 12/12/12 8K re: fin'l outlook for 2013 and eps estimate
11/1/12 10Q &
10/23 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
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



Travelers TRV: 12/5/12 8K re: estimate of losses due to Hurricane Sandy
10/18/12 10Q &
10/18 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30/12


UnitedHealth Group UNH: 12/6/12 & 11/19/12 8Ks re: purchase of over 60% of shares of Amil
11/26/12 8K re: annual inv. conf.
11/2/112 Bd. & officer changes
10/30/12 10Q for quarter ended 9/30
10/2212 8K re: underwriting agreement to sell over $3.4 bil of notes
10/16/12 8K re: 3Q results
10/9/12 8K re: purchase of 90% of Brazil firm Amil Participacoas for $4.9 bil in cash
9/10/12 re: FD disclosure re: Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference
8/7/12 10Q re: quarter ended 6/30/12


United Technologies UTX: 12/17/12 8K re: completion of sale of ind'l products biz for $3.46 to finance purchase of Goodrich which closed earlier in the year
10/26/12 & 10/23/12 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/11 8K/A re: Goodrich purchase
9/12/12 8K re: election of Marshall Larsen to Board


Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 12/10/12 8K re: purchase of single premium annuity contract
from Prud'l to settle $7.5 bil of pension liabilities
12/8/12 8K re: election of EVP Merchandizing
11/13/12 8K re: Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless disgtri buted $18.5 bil to the two owners, Verizon Communications & Vodaphone
11/8/12 8K re: disclsoure of Wells Fargo Tech, Media & telecom Conf.
11/2/12 8K re: tenderoffer for $1.25 bil of its notes
11/2/12 8K re: Agreements ith CWA & IBEW for new 3 year congtracts covering 43,000 workers
10/25 10Q & 10/18 8K & 10/5/ 8K re: 3Q ended 9/30
10/17 8K re: transfer $7.5 bil of pension plan obligations to Prudential


WalMart WMT: 12/4/12 10Q & 11/15/12 8K re: results of Qtr ended 10/31
9/6/12 10Q for quarter ended 7/31/12
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