Post No. 2,344 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.
A read of the print editions of Tuesday's Investor's News Daily, Monday's Barron's; the combined Sat/Sun issues of the Wall St. Journal & Financial Times; Saturdays New York Times& Atlanta Journal & Constitution 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.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average:The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 14810.31 down 30.64 or 0.21% from Thursday's close of 148840.95. For the week the Dow was down 200.2 or 1.33% from last Friday's close of 15010.51. For the year the Dow is up 13.02%. Of the Dow components 10 gained and 20 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was Procter & Gamble up 58 cents and percentage-wise was Walmart up 0.76% . The biggest decliner dollar-wise was Boeing down $1.01 and percentage-wise was Alcoa down 1.41%.
WSJ pB1 "Dow falls in August as nerves fray" by Dan Strumpf says turbulence returned to the markets in Aug, an omen of what a lot of people expect to be a fitful autumn.
IBD pB8 "Stocks slide but vol keeps to subpar levels" by Paul whitfield says stocks retreated in mixed but sluggish vol fri as the big money decided to start the 3 day holiday early. The Dow held its loss to 0.2% thanks partly to Procter & Gamble's almost 1% gain. The current outlook is the market is in a correction.
Sat. NYT pB6 "Markets close lower as investors wait for decision about Syria" by Reuters says stocks fell in a thinly traded session Fri due to concern about Syria.
FT p11 "Salesforce pushes higher after boosting forecast" says US stocks fell Fri setting the S&P on track for the biggest monthlyd rop in more than a year. GE rose 0.3% after it said it wold spin off its US consumer lending unit. AT&T rose 0.2% after reports it may sell some of its assets. Verizon rose 0.9% due to a proposed deal to buy Vodafone's stake.
Sat. AJC pA14 "Market ends rough month" by AP says disappointing news on consumer spending helped pull stocks lower Fri in a quiet end to the market's worst month in more than a year.
As of the close of the market on Friday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page B6 of Saturday's Wall St. Journal is 0.130216081. Friday's closing trailing P/E ratio is 15.45 down from Friday's opening trailing P/E ratio of 15.48 (last year it was 14.51); Friday's closing P/E estimate is 13.47 down from Friday's opening P/E estimate of 13.53 (year ago it was 12.42) and Friday's closing dividend yield is 2.54 up from Friday's opening dividend yield of 2.49 (last year it was 2.64). The Dow's all-time high was 15,658.36 on August 2, 2013. 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 1928.54 down 4.99 from Thursday's closing numerator of 1933.53. 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 change for today by the divisor (0.130216081) you get the change 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 Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $64.28 down 14 cents from Thursday's average of $64.42. The median closing price of Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $66.29 (DIS/UNH) up 8 cents from Thursday's median closing price of $66.76. 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 or dividends) and sold at the close you would have lost $499 ($193,253 - $192,854 ) .
MarketWatch 8/30/13 Fri. 4:18 pm by Kate Gibson U.S. stocks declined on Friday, with the Dow industrials and
S&P 500 recording their worst month since May 2012, as Wall Street
considered a possible U.S. strike against Syria.“The only variable that really matters is the possibility of a Syrian
intervention. A portion of the volatility we saw this week was certainly
related to news flow regarding the Middle East,” said Lawrence
Creatura, portfolio manager at Federated Investors.
‘Skeleton crews are manning the trading desks. I wouldn’t trust this week’s moves too much. It’s like a household when the parents are away, and teenagers are running the show.’
Lawrence Creatura, Federated Investors
Meeting
with the presidents of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, President
Barack Obama on Friday afternoon called the use of chemical weapons a
“challenge to the world.”The president’s words followed the release of
U.S. intelligence that
found the Syrian government to be behind a chemical attack that killed
1,429 people in a suburb of Damascus.“It’s really going to be dependent
upon what happens over the next few
days, if Obama can take enough of a break from the Labor Day holiday to
launch some rockets against Syria, then it becomes more interesting,”
said Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at Banyan Partners LLC. In a
nationally televised statement Friday afternoon, U.S. Secretary of
State John Kerry condemned the “indiscriminate and inconceivable horror
of chemical weapons,” while outlining Washington’s case against the
Syrian government in a deadly attack in Syria last week. Major indexes
tallied weekly and monthly losses.“We’ve had a strong run this year and
we are entering a seasonally
treacherous time of year. Historically, Autumn and the months of
September and October specifically, can be treacherous and unforgiving,”
said Creatura.
Up 13% for the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA
-0.21%
on Friday declined as much as 78 points, but closed down 30.64 points,
or 0.2%, to 14,810.31, a level that left it with a 1.3% drop on the week
and down 4.5% for the month.Consumer discretionary fed sector declines and consumer staples and
utilities were the only advancing sectors among the 10 major industry
groups on the S&P 500 index
SPX
-0.32%
, which lost 5.21 points, or 0.3%, to 1,632.96, down 1.8% for the week
and off 3.1% for the month. The Nasdaq Composite
COMP
-0.84%
fell 30.43 points, or 0.8%, to 3,589.86. It slid 1.9% for the week and
1% for the month. For every stock advancing, more than two declined on
the New York Stock
Exchange, where 768 million shares traded. Composite volume approached
2.7 billion. “This could be one of the lowest volume days this year. A
lot of folks
are sitting on the sidelines, waiting for direction,” said Pavlik.
Saturday's Dow News followed by Friday's Closing Dow Numbers:
AT&T:
Alcoa:
American Express:
Bank of America:
Boeing:
Caterpillar:
Chevron:
Cisco:
Coke:
Disney:
DuPont:
Exxon:
GE: Sat. AJC pA13 "GE to go public with lending business" says GE will spin off the US consumer lending business of its finance arm with an ipo early next year. The unit provides store credit cards to 55 mil people for retailers like Walmart and accounts for $50 bil of GE Capital's $274 bil in loans.
Barron's p12 "Week review" says Verizon may buy Vodafone's 45% interest in their US jv & GE will exit retail lending.
Hewlett-Packard:
Home Depot:
Intel:
IBM:
JPMorgan: fT p10 "Banks get ready to feel the penalty pain" by Tom Braithwaite, Kara Scannell says criticism that fines to banks from the fin'l crisis were too low still resonates. JPMorgan has paid out $33 bil so far not counting $26.6 bil for Countrywide.
Johnson & Johnson:
McDonald's: IBD pA18 "McDummkopfs! is an editorial says McDonald's could replace workers with ATM-style machines if their wages get too high.
Merck:
Microsoft: WSJ pA1 "Activist storms Microsoft board" by Shria Ovide says Microsoft is giving a board seat to an activit investor for the first time, a ValueAct Capital management LP appointee.
WSJ pB7 "Beyond the supestar CEO: where to find an edge" by Mark Hulbert says Microsoft is under pressure to follow a CEO search process that is irrational because Microsoft needs to change its culture of a star CEO.
Barron's pM9 "How to play Microsoft now" by Steven M. Sears says says Microsoft's stock is unlikely to significantly advance or decline until Ballmer's successor is named so the stock is a good bet for selling out of the money puts and calls.
Pfizer:
Procter & Gamble: IBD pB8 "Stocks slide but vol keeps to subpar levels" by Paul whitfield says stocks retreated in mixed but sluggish vol fri as the big money decided to start the 3 day holiday early. The Dow held its loss to 0.2% thanks partly to Procter & Gamble's almost 1% gain. The current outlook is the market is in a correction.
3M:
Travelers:
United Technologies:
UnitedHealth:
Verizon: Barron's p12 "Week review" says Verizon may buy Vodafone's 45% interest in their US jv & GE will exit retail lending.
Sat. WSJ pB14 "Overheard" says Verizon may issue $20 bil in bonds to help pay for a Vodafone buy out.
FT p8 "Vodafone-Verizon deal gets finishing touches" by David Oakley, Anousha Sakoul says the day will be finalized this weekend and cost Verizon $130 bil.
Walmart: Sat. AJC pA13 "GE to go public with lending business" says GE will spin off the US consumer lending business of its finance arm with an ipo early next year. The unit provides store credit cards to 55 mil people for retailers like Walmart and accounts for $50 bil of GE Capital's $274 bil in loans.
Saturday's Dow News followed by Friday's Closing Dow Numbers:
AT&T:
Alcoa:
American Express:
Bank of America:
Boeing:
Caterpillar:
Chevron:
Cisco:
Coke:
Disney:
DuPont:
Exxon:
GE: Sat. AJC pA13 "GE to go public with lending business" says GE will spin off the US consumer lending business of its finance arm with an ipo early next year. The unit provides store credit cards to 55 mil people for retailers like Walmart and accounts for $50 bil of GE Capital's $274 bil in loans.
Barron's p12 "Week review" says Verizon may buy Vodafone's 45% interest in their US jv & GE will exit retail lending.
Hewlett-Packard:
Home Depot:
Intel:
IBM:
JPMorgan: fT p10 "Banks get ready to feel the penalty pain" by Tom Braithwaite, Kara Scannell says criticism that fines to banks from the fin'l crisis were too low still resonates. JPMorgan has paid out $33 bil so far not counting $26.6 bil for Countrywide.
Johnson & Johnson:
McDonald's: IBD pA18 "McDummkopfs! is an editorial says McDonald's could replace workers with ATM-style machines if their wages get too high.
Merck:
Microsoft: WSJ pA1 "Activist storms Microsoft board" by Shria Ovide says Microsoft is giving a board seat to an activit investor for the first time, a ValueAct Capital management LP appointee.
WSJ pB7 "Beyond the supestar CEO: where to find an edge" by Mark Hulbert says Microsoft is under pressure to follow a CEO search process that is irrational because Microsoft needs to change its culture of a star CEO.
Barron's pM9 "How to play Microsoft now" by Steven M. Sears says says Microsoft's stock is unlikely to significantly advance or decline until Ballmer's successor is named so the stock is a good bet for selling out of the money puts and calls.
Pfizer:
Procter & Gamble: IBD pB8 "Stocks slide but vol keeps to subpar levels" by Paul whitfield says stocks retreated in mixed but sluggish vol fri as the big money decided to start the 3 day holiday early. The Dow held its loss to 0.2% thanks partly to Procter & Gamble's almost 1% gain. The current outlook is the market is in a correction.
3M:
Travelers:
United Technologies:
UnitedHealth:
Verizon: Barron's p12 "Week review" says Verizon may buy Vodafone's 45% interest in their US jv & GE will exit retail lending.
Sat. WSJ pB14 "Overheard" says Verizon may issue $20 bil in bonds to help pay for a Vodafone buy out.
FT p8 "Vodafone-Verizon deal gets finishing touches" by David Oakley, Anousha Sakoul says the day will be finalized this weekend and cost Verizon $130 bil.
Walmart: Sat. AJC pA13 "GE to go public with lending business" says GE will spin off the US consumer lending business of its finance arm with an ipo early next year. The unit provides store credit cards to 55 mil people for retailers like Walmart and accounts for $50 bil of GE Capital's $274 bil in loans.
Friday's Closing Dow Numbers:
| Symbol | Last Sale | Change | % Change | Share Volume | Market |
| T |  | NYSE | |||
| AA |  | NYSE | |||
| AXP | | NYSE | |||
| BAC | | NYSE | |||
| BA | | NYSE | |||
| CAT | | NYSE | |||
| CVX | | NYSE | |||
| CSCO | | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| KO | | NYSE | |||
| DIS | | NYSE | |||
| DD | | NYSE | |||
| XOM | | NYSE | |||
| GE | | NYSE | |||
| HPQ | | NYSE | |||
| HD | | NYSE | |||
| INTC | | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| IBM | | NYSE | |||
| JPM | | NYSE | |||
| JNJ | | NYSE | |||
| MCD | | NYSE | |||
| MRK | | NYSE | |||
| MSFT | | NASDAQ-GS | |||
| PFE | | NYSE | |||
| PG | | NYSE | |||
| MMM | | NYSE |
| TRV | | NYSE | |||
| UNH | | NYSE | |||
| UTX | | NYSE | |||
| VZ | | DualListed | |||
| WMT | | NYSE |
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 Brian Krzanich (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 Frazier (Whitehouse Station, N.J.)
Microsoft MSFT Steve Ballmer (Redmond, WA)
Pfizer PFE Ian Read (NY, NY)
Procter & Gamble PG A. G. Lafley (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 8/21/13 ranked in order of market capitalization in billions:
1. Exxon Mobil XOM $380.39
2. Microsoft MSFT 263.31
3. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 250.24
4. WalMart WMT 241.10
5. GE 240.44
6. Chevron CVX 227.40
7. Procter & Gamble PG 217.40
8. IBM 202.50
9. JPMorgan Chase JPM 194.57
10. Pfizer PFE 186.96
11. AT&T T 177.81
12. Coke KO 169.70
13. Bank of America BAC 154.06
14. Merck MRK 138.89
15. Verizon VZ 135.27
16. Cisco CSCO 129.18
17. Intel INTC 110.45
18. Disney DIS 109.22
19. Home Depot HD 107.70
20. McDonald's MCD 95.08
21. United Technologies UTX 93.31
22. American Express AXP 80.05
23. Boeing BA 78.39
24. 3M MMM 77.52
25. UnitedHealth UNH 73.05
26. Caterpillar CAT 53.71
27. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 48.95
28. DuPont DD 52.77
29. Travelers TRV 29.66
30. Alcoa AA 8.39
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Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 8/21/13:
Symbol & Co. Name/Date of Filing/Form Filed/ Comments
AT&T T: 8/2/13 10Q & 7/24/13 8K & 7/23/13 8K re: results for quarter ended 6/30/13
7/25/13 8K re: retirement from Board of Dr. Gilbert F. Amelia
7/12/13 8K re: AT&T agreeing to buy Leap Wireless
6/28/13 8K re: election of Cynthia B. Taylor as a Director & increase # of dirs. 14 from 13
5/24/13 8K re: redemption of debentures
5/15/13 8K re: closing of sale of Global Notes due '43
5/3/13 10Q & 2 8Ks 4/23/13 re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31/13 results
Alcoa AA: 8/19/13 8K re: closing of smelting capacity in US & Brazil
7/25/13 10Q for Qtr ended 6/30/13
7/11/13 & 7/9 8Ks re: 2Q earnings results
7/1/13 8K re: closing the Fusina, Italy aluminum smelter
5/30/13 8K re: Moody's downgrade of debt rating from Baa3 to Ba1 & from negative to stable
5/24/13 8K re: redemption of 65 Notes due 7/15/13
5/20/13 8K re: shut down of 2 smelters in Quebec
5/9/13 8K re: Sustainability Highlights Report
5/8/13 8K re: approval of Stock Incentive Plan
American Express AXP: 8/15/13 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats for 3 mos. ended 7/31/13
7/29/13 10Q & 7/17/13 8K re: 2Q results ended 6/30/13
7/25/13 8K re: amdmt to sr. Exec. Severance Plan
7/15/13 8K re: delinq. & write-off statgs for 3 mos. ended 6/30/13
6/21/13 8K re: selection of Jeffrey Campbell CFO
6/17/13 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats for 3 months thru 5/31/13
5/22/13 & 5/17/13 8Ks re: issuance of $1.85 bil of notes
5/15/13 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats for 3 months through 4/30/13
5/7/13 8K re: retirement of CFO Daniel T. Henry
5/2/13 8K re: voting results of 4/29 Sahreholder Meeting
Bank of Am BAC: 8/1/13 10Q & 7/17/13 8K re: 2Q ended 6/30/13 results
7/24/13 8K re: election to Board of Clayton S. Rose & Pierre de Weck
7/2/13 8K re: redemption of securities
5/29/13 8K re: issuance of 40,000 shaes of Series U Preferred Stock
5/28/13 8K re: redemption of Perpetual Preferred Stock
5/8/13 8K re: voting results from 5/8 Stockholders Meeting
5/7/13 10Q & 4/17/13 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31 results
5/6/13 8K re: settlement of lawsuit with MBIA
Boeing BA: 7/24/13 10Q & 8K re: results for qtr. ended 6/30/13
5/3/13 8K re: issuance of floating rate senior notes due '14
4/30/13 8K re: voting results of 4/29 shareholders meeting held 4/29
4/24/13 10Q & 4/24/13 8K re: 1 Qtr. ended 3/31 results
4/22/13, 4/16 & 3/15/13 Proxy materials re: 4/29/13 annual mtg of shareholders at Field Museum, Chicago
Caterpillar CAT: 8/20/13 8K re: dealer stats for July '13
8/2/13 10Q & 7/24/13 8K re: 2Q ended 6/30/13 results
7/23/13 8K re: June '13 dealer stats
6/20/13 8K re: 3 month dealer stats thru 3/13
6/17/13 8K re: voting results of annual shareholderss mtg on 6/12
6/12/13 8K re: 15% increase in dividend from 8 cents to 60 cents payable 8/20 to record holders 7/22
5/20/13 8K re: 3 months dealer stats Feb through April 2013
5/17/13 8K re: settlement re: litigation arising from acquisition of ERA Mining (China)
5/2/13 10Q & 4/22/13 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31/13 results
Chevron CVX: 8/7/13 10Q & 8/2/13 8K re: 2Q ended 6/30/13 results
7/10/13 8K re: 2Q interim update
6/24/13 8K re: issuance of notes
6/4/13 8K re: approval by stockholders of Long Term Incentive Plan
5/2/13 10Q; 4/26/13 8K; 4/10/13 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31/13 results
Cisco CSCO: 8/15/13 8K re: firing of 4,000 employees
8/14/13 8K re: FY '13 & 4Q results
6/20/13 8K: re: exec's pre-arranged stock trading plan
6/12/13 8K re: executives' adoption of pre-arranged stock trading plan
6/7/13 8K re: Cisco payment to Tivo of $294 mil to settle patent dispute that includes Google & AARIS Group
5/21/13 10Q for qtr ended 4/27/13
5/15/13 8K re: 3Q ended 4/27 results
Coke KO: 7/25/13 10Q & 7/16/13 8K 2Q ended 6/28/13 results
7/19/13 8K re: election of Ana Botin to Board
5/15/13 8K re: amendment of by-laws to allow calling of special shareholders meeting
4/26/13 10Q & 4/16/13 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/29 results
4/4/13 Proxy re: 4/24 shareholder meeting
Disney DIS: 8/6/13 10Q & 8/6/13 8K re: 3Q ended 6/29/13 results
7/1/13 8K re: extension of CEO Robert A. Iger's employment contract to 6/30/16
5/7/13 10Q & 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/30 results
3/20/13 8K re: $1.5 bil 364 day credit agreement
3/8/13 8K re: change to exec bonus plan
DuPont DD: 8/13/13 8K re: adoption of Sr. Exec. Severance Plan
7/23/13 10Q & 8K re: 2Q ended 6/31/13 results
4/29/13 8K re: voting results of 4/24 stockholders meeting
4/23/13 10Q & 8K re: quarter ended 3/31 results
4/4 proxy materials
3/26/13 8K re: settlement with Monsanto of patent litigation
3/15/13 Proxy re: 4/24 Stockholders Meeting at DuPont Theatre, Wilmington, DE
ExxonMobil XOM: 8/6/13 10Q & 8/1/13 8K re: 2Q ended 6/30/13 results
6/3/13 8K re: voting results of 5/29/13 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
5/13/13; 5/10; 4/12 Proxy materials
5/2/13 10Q & 4/25/13 8K re: 1 Qtr. ended 3/31 results
3/26/13 8K re: financial presentation
3/12/13 8K re: analyst meeting
GE: 7/26/13 10Q & 7/19/13 8K re: 2Q ended 6/30/13 results
6/14/13 8K re: election of Keith S. Sherlin, CEO GE Capital
5/8/13 10Q & 4/19/13 8K re: 1 Qtr. ended 3/31 results
4/26/13 8K re: voting results of 4/24 shareholders meeting
4/8/13 Proxy materials for shareholders meetings
Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 7/15/13 8K re: election to Board of Robert F. Bennett, Raymond E. Ozzie & James A. Skinner & increase # of dirs. from 9 to 12
6/18/13 8K re: change of duties of EVP R. Todd Bradley
6/6/13 10Q & 5/22/13 8K re: qtr ended 4/30/13
5/29/13 8K re: resignation of John H. Mammergren & G. Kennedy Thompson from BoD and temporary reduction of Board members from 11 to 9
4/4/13 8K re: resignations of directors John H. Hammergren & G. Kennedy Thompson
Home Depot HD: 8/20/13 8K re: 2Q results
5/29/13 8K re: shareholder approval of Amended Restated '05 Stock Incentive Plan
5/29/13 10Q & 5/21/13 8K re: qtr ended 5/5/13
4/8/13 Proxy materials for 5/23 shareholders meeting at Cobb Galleria, Atlanta
4/5/13 8K re: issuance of 2.7% Sr. Notes due '23 & '43
Intel INTC: 7/29/13 & 7/18/13 & 7/17/13 8K re: results for qtr ended 6/29/13
5/21/13 8K re: Brian M. Krzanich became CEO on 5/16
5/8/13 Proxy materials
5/2/13 8K re: election of Brian M. Krzanich as CEO Z& Renee J. James as pres. effective 5/16
4/29/13 10Q & 4/17 8K & 4/16 8K re: results of 1st quarter ended 3/30
4/3/13 Proxy materials for 5/16 stockholders meeting at Santa Clara, Cal.
IBM: 7/31/13 8K re: underwriting contracts for notes5/6/13 8K re: issuance of notes
7/31/13 10Q & 7/18/13 8K & 7/17/13 8K re: 2Q ended 6/30/13 results
5/3/13 8K re: retirement of SVP HR J. Randall MacDonald
4/30/13 10Q & 4/19/13 & 4/18/13 8Ks re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31 results
4/3/13 Proxy materials
3/11/13 Proxy re 4.30/13 annual meeting of stockholders at Von Braun Ctr., Huntsville, Al
JPMorganChase JPM: 8/21/13 8K re: sale of subordinated Notes
8/7/13 10Q re: 6/30/13 results
8/1/13 8K re: redemption of Non0cumulative Pref. Stock, Series J
7/29/13 8K re: issuance of Non0cumulative Pref. Stock, Series R
7/29/13 8K re: possible sale of commodities business
7/19/13 8K re: retirement from Board of David Cote & Ellen Futter
7/12/13 2 8Ks re: 2Q results
6/10/13 8K re: amendment to Cert. of Incorp. to allow shareholder action by written consent
6/4/13 8K re: Reg FD disclosure re: investor conference presentation
5/23/13 8K re: results of 5/21/13 Annual Shareholders Meeting
5/16/13 Proxy materials for 5/21 shareholders meeting
5/15/13 8K re: sale of 1.6% notes due '18
5/8/13 10Q & 4/12 8K re: 1Q ended 3/31 results
Johnson & Johnson JNJ: 8/20/13 8K re: closing of purchase of Aragon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
8/1/13 10Q & 7/16/13 8K re: 2Q ended 6/30/13 results
6/20/13 8K re: agreement to buy Aragon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for its late state prostate drugs
5/3/13 10Q & 4/16 8K reL: 1 Qtr ended 3/31 results
4/26/13 8K re: voting results of 4/25 shareholders meeting
3/13/13 Proxy re: 4/25/13 Shareholder mtg at Hyatt New Brunswick, NJ
McDonald's MCD: 7/31/13 10Q & 7/22/13 8K re: 2Q ended 6/30/13 results
7/19/13 8K re: dividend of 77 cents pe share payable 9/17/13 to record holders on 9/3/13
6/10/13 8K re: Reg. FD disclosure re: Investor Release
5/28/13 8K re: voting results of 5/23/13 Annual Shareholders Meeting
5/8/13 8K re: April sales
5/6/13 8K re: issuance of notes
5/3/13 8K re: adjustment to sales results
Merck MRK: 8/7/13 10Q & 7/30/13 8K re: results as of 6/30/13
5/30/13 8K re: voting results of 5/28/13 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
5/22/13 8K re: accelerated stock repurchase agreement with Goldman Sachs
5/20/13 8K re: issuance of $6 bil of notes
Microsoft MSFT: 7/30/13 10K & 7/18/13 8K re: results for year ended 6/30/13
7/11/13 8K re: resignation of Pres. of Office Div. Kurt DelBene
7/3/13 8K re: retirement of Steve Sinofsky from Windows Div.
5/20/13 8-K/A approval of CFO Amy Hood's compensation
5/13/13 8K re: election of Amy Hood as CFO
5/1/13 8K re: sale of Euro notes
4/18/13 8K re: resignation of CFO Peter Klein
4/18/13 10Q & 4/18 8K re: results of Qtr ended 3/31
Pfizer PFE: 8/9/13 10Q & 7/30/13 8K re; 2Q ended 6/30/13 results
6/3/13 8K re: issuance of $4 bil of notes
5/29/13 8K re: blackout of insider purchase of shares due to Zoetis exchange offer
5/10/13 10Q & 4/30/13 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31 results
4/29/13 8K re: voting results of 4/25/13 shareholders meeting
4/3/13 Proxy material
Procter & Gamble PG: 8/15/13 8K re: sale of Floating Rate Notes due '63
Pre-14A Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders on 10/8/13 at Aronoff Center in Cincinnati
7/9/13 8K re: declaration of dividend of $0.6015 on Common & Conv. Call A Pref. payable 8/15 to 7/19 record holders
6/12/13 8K re: Reg. FD disclosure re: presentation at Deutsche Bank Global Consumer Conference
6/5/13 8K re: grouping of Global Business Units into 4 industry based sectors
5/24/13 8K re: A.G. Lafley rejoining as CEO replacing Bob McDonald
5/14/13 8K re: Reg. FD disclosure re: Goldman Sachs Consumer Products Symposium
4/24/13 10Q & 4/24 2 8Ks re: 3Q ended 3/31 results
4/15/13 8K re: quarterly dividend of 0.6015 cents per share
3M MMM: 8/13/13 8K re: election to Board of Thomas K. Brown increase from 11 to 12
8/1/13 10Q & 7/25/13 8K re: 2Q ended 6/30/13 results
5/16/13 8K re: amendment to Annual Report re: realignment of business groups and certain accounting revisions
5/15/13 8K re: voting results of 5/14 stockholders meeting
5/7/13 Proxy materials
5/2/13 10Q & 4/25/13 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31 results
Travelers TRV: 8/1/13 8K re: underwriting contracts re: issuance of 4.6% Sr. Notes due '43
7/23/13 10Q & 8K re: 2Q ended 6/30/13 results
6/12/13 8K re: $1 bil revolving bank credit agreement
6/10/13 8K re: purchase of Dominion of Canada General Insurance for $1.1 bil
5/24/13 8K re: voting results of 5/22/13 Annual shareholders meeting
4/23/13 10Q & 4/23/13 8K re: qtr ended 3/31 results
4/9/13 Proxy for 5/22 shareholders meeting at Hartford, Ct.
United Technologies UTX: 7/26/13 10Q & 7/23/13 8K re: 2Q ended 6/30/13 results
6/18/13 8K re: Ohio Fed. Ct. awarding $473 mil to U.S. re: False Claims Act re: overcharging by Pratt & Whitney on F100's
5/24/13 8K re: redemption of $1 bil 1.2% notes due 6/1/13
4/30/13 8K re: results of shareholders meeting
4/26/13 10Q & 4/23/13 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31 results
4/9/13 Proxy materials for 4/29 annual shareholders meeting
UnitedHealth Group UNH: 8/5/13 10Q & 7/18/13 8K re: 2Q ended 6/30/13 results
6/6/13 8K re: Voting results of 6/3/13 Annual Shareholders Mtg
5/29/13 8K re: Reg FD disclosure re: Bernstein 29th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference
5/6/13 10Q & 4/18/13 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31 results
4/24/13 Proxy materials for 6/3 shareholders meeting in Boston
3/11/13 8K re: Barclays Global Healthcare conference presentation
2/28/13 8K re: sale of Notes
2/7/13 10K for year ended 12/31/12
Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 7/25/13 10Q & 7/18/13 8K re: results for qtr ended 6/30/13
6/10/13 8K re: election of Anthony T. Skiadas, 44, Sr. VP & Controller
5/13/13 8K re: distribution of $7 bil to Wireless Comm and Vodafone by Verizon Wireless
5/7/13 8K re: voting results of 5/2 annual mtg of shareholders
4/25/13 10Q & 4/13/13 8K re results of quarter ended 3/31
4/2/13 8K re: rumors of purchase of Vodaphone's interest in Verizon Wireless
4/1/13 & 3/18/13 Proxy re: 5/2/13 Annual Mtg of shareholders, Doubletree, Tulsa, OK
2/26/13 10K for year ended 12/31/12
2/7/13 8K re: election of Gregory D. Wasson, Pres & CEO of Walgreen, as Director
WalMart WMT: 8/15/13 8K re: 2Q ended 7/31/13 results
6/7/13 10Q & 5/16/13 8K re: Qtr. ended 4/30
6/2/13 8K re: Voting results of 6/7 Annual shareholder meeting
4/22/13 Proxy re: 6/7 shareholder meeting at Fayetteville, Ark.
4/10/13 8K re: sale of notes
3/26/13 10K for year ended 1/31/13
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