Tuesday, August 19, 2014

8/19/14 Tues. pm Dow Closes at 16919.59 up 80.85 or 0.48%

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by Dan Kolber

Post No. 2,792 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 a summary of recent Dow 30 components'  SEC filings.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed  Tuesday at 16919.59 up 80.85 or 0.48%  from Monday's close of 16838.74. Of the Dow components  22 gained and  8 declined.  The biggest gainer   dollar-wise was  and percentage-wise was  Home Depot up $4.64 or 5.55%.  The biggest decliner   dollar-wise  was Goldman Sachs down 59 cents and percentage-wise was AT&T down 0.49%.


 As of the open of  the market on  Tuesday the current divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average found at page C5 of  Tuesday's Wall St. Journal is 0.15571590501117.  Tuesday's trailing P/E   ratio is 15.82 down from Monday's   trailing P/E ratio of 15.87  (last year it was 16.37).  Tuesday's P/E estimate is 14.77 unchanged from Monday's P/E estimate of 14.77 (year ago it was 13.66) and Tuesday's dividend yield is 2.22 up  from  Monday's dividend yield of 2.21  (last year it was 2.47). The Dow's all-time high was 17113.54 on July 2,  2014. The 12 year low close for the Dow was on March 9, 2009 when it fell to 6,547.05.

Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average numerator is 2634.65 up 12.60   from  Monday's   numerator of 2622.05.  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 (0.15571590501117) you get the change in today's Dow. A dollar increase or decrease in a Dow stock results in a $6.42 change in the Dow Index.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of  Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $87.82 up 42 cents from Monday's  average closing price of $87.40.  The median closing price of  Tuesday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $85.80  (UNH/AXP) up $2.79 from Monday's median closing price of $83.01 (PG/HD/. The lowest volume was  Travelers and the highest volume was Intel.

If  Tuesday 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 made $1,260  ($263,346  - $262,205).

8/19/14 Tues. 4:06 MarketWatch by Victor Reklaitis & Wallace Witkowski says
U.S. stocks climbed Tuesday after a better-than-expected jump in July housing starts and upbeat earnings reports. Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.04% achieved an all-time split-adjusted closing high, while Home Depot Inc. HD, +5.55%  was the biggest gainer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the wake of quarterly results that topped forecasts. The S&P 500 SPX, +0.50% advanced 9.86 points, or 0.5%, to close at 1,981.60, while the Dow industrials DJIA, +0.48%  rose 80.85 points, or 0.5%, to end at 16,919.59. The S&P 500 stands 0.3% off its July 24 record close at 1,987.98, recovering from its drop in late July and early August. The Nasdaq Composite COMP, +0.43% advanced 19.20 points, or 0.4%, to finish at 4,527.51. The tech-laden index scored its highest close since March 31, 2000, for the second day in a row, and it’s on a five-day winning streak. The Commerce Department on Tuesday said construction on U.S. new homes rose 15.7% in July to an annual rate of 1.09 million, well above forecasts, and the June drop in new construction was revised to a much smaller decline.
“I think investors will be encouraged to an extent by the revisions in the data,” said Andrew Wilkinson, chief market analyst at Interactive Brokers. He also said geopolitical concerns seem to be receding, even though there’s no resolution in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, and that “just gives added impetus to the bulls.” In other economic news, the Labor Department said U.S. consumer prices rose 0.1% in July, matching forecasts and signaling inflation isn’t flaring up.
When Google went public 10 years ago, co-founder Larry Page said he wanted to get his search engine’s users “out of Google and to the right place as fast as possible." Today, Google is often doing the opposite. The rest of the week “is going to be about the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) minutes and Jackson Hole conference,” said Wouter Sturkenboom, strategist at Russell Investments in London, in emailed comments. “On both counts, we and the market expect the prevailing dovish stance to hold, providing upside momentum for markets,” Sturkenboom said. But he added that owing to valuation concerns, his firm remains neutral on U.S. stocks.The FOMC minutes will hit Wednesday, and Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen will speak on Friday at the central bank’s conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Stocks have rallied in recent sessions mostly because investors are no longer frightened about rising interest rates, said Bruce Bittles, chief investment strategist at R.W. Baird. Some soft economic news in the U.S. and overseas, such as for jobless claims and retail sales, indicate the low-rate regime that’s boosted stocks will continue.
“All of a sudden, the theory that we were in a rising interest rate environment in the U.S. turned out to be perhaps premature,” Bittles told MarketWatch. He argued that while geopolitical fears have spiked and then eased, they’re largely background noise.
Movers & shakers: Home Depot shares rose 5.6% to a record close, and home-builder shares staged a rally with D.R Horton Inc. DHI, +3.27% Ryland Group Inc. RYL, +4.62% and Lennar Corp. LEN, +3.33%  shares all advancing at least 3%.


Tuesday's Closing Dow Numbers:
Symbol Last Sale Change % Change Share Volume Market
T▼ NYSE
AXP▲ NYSE
BA▲ NYSE
CAT▲ NYSE
CVX▲ NYSE
CSCO▲ NASDAQ-GS
KO▼ NYSE
DIS▲ NYSE
DD▲ NYSE
XOM▼ NYSE
GE▼ NYSE
GS▼ NYSE
HD▲ NYSE
INTC▼ NASDAQ-GS
IBM▲ NYSE
JPM▲ NYSE
JNJ▲ NYSE
MCD▲ NYSE
MRK▲ NYSE
MSFT▲ NASDAQ-GS
NKE▼ NYSE
PFE▲ NYSE
PG▲ NYSE
MMM▲ NYSE
TRV▼ NYSE
UTX▲ NYSE
UNH▲ NYSE
VZ▼ DualListed
V▲ NYSE
WMT▲ NYSE


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The following are excerpts from Tuesday morning's Blog:

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

The Dow Jones Industrial Average:  The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed  Monday at 16838.74 up 175.83 or 1.06%  from Friday's close of 16713.58.  For the year the Dow is up 1.6%. Of the Dow components 4  gained and 26  declined.  The biggest gainer   dollar-wise was Verizon up $4.13 and percentage-wise was  United Technologies up 2.33%.  The biggest decliner   dollar-wise  and percentage-wise was  Merck down 19 cents or 0.32 %.


 Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average numerator is 2622.05 up 27.27   from  Friday's   numerator of 2594.68.  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 (0.15571590501117) you get the change in today's Dow. A dollar increase or decrease in a Dow stock results in a $6.42 change in the Dow Index.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of  Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $87.40 up 91 cents from Friday's  average closing price of $86.49.  The median closing price of  Monday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $83.01  (PG/HD) up 27  cents from Friday's median closing price of $82.74 (PG/HD/. The lowest volume was  Travelers and the highest volume was Intel.

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 made $2,727  ($262,205 - $259,468).

8/18/14 Mon. 4:37 MarketWatch by Victor Reklaitis & Barbara Kollmeyer says U.S. stocks finished with strong gains Monday, helped by deal news and easing Ukraine-Russia tensions.
A better-than-expected reading on the housing market also boosted sentiment and kicked off a big week for economic data.
        
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.06% jumped 175.83 points, or 1.1%, to finish at 16,838.74. The blue-chip barometer achieved its biggest point gain since Aug. 8.
The Nasdaq Composite COMP, +0.97%  climbed 43.39 points, or 1%, to 4,508.31, scoring its highest close since March 2000. Yahoo Inc. YHOO, +2.50%  and Google Inc. GOOGL, +1.54% GOOG, +1.51%  rose 2.5% and 1.5%, respectively, as tech stocks enjoyed broad gains.
“The political concerns that whipped markets around on Friday subsided over the weekend with Ukraine and Russia apparently talking and making some progress,” said Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CMC Markets, in emailed comments. He also emphasized encouraging news from Iraq, noting that “Kurdish forces regained control of the key Mosul Dam from ISIS.”
Alastair McCaig, market analyst at IG, pointed out the Dow might regain a big round number.
“Wall Street is once again coming up to tackle technical resistance, but with the momentum built up over the last week, conversations are likely to turn towards when, not if, it can tackle the 17,000 level again,” McCaig said in a note.
Helping out, he said, was the bounce off session lows seen Friday, when the Dow recovered from a triple-digit fall. Also read: Where Soros and other big investors are putting their money right now
Foreign ministers from Ukraine and Russia met over the weekend, and an agreement was reached over a convoy of what Russia says is humanitarian aid. The news pushed the Europe Stoxx 600 SXXP, +1.18%  to its highest close so far this month.
In U.S. economic news, the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index for August came in at 55, its highest level in seven months. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected a reading of 53. U.S. stocks strengthened further after the housing report.
This week also should bring data on housing starts and consumer prices on Tuesday, as well as minutes from the last Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday.
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen will give a speech Friday at the annual Fed summit in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Yellen is expected to say there’s still slack in the job market, and she isn’t likely to change the Fed’s easy-money stance, said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, in an interview with MarketWatch.
Shares of Dollar General Corp. DG, +11.63%  rose 12%, faring best in the S&P 500, after offering to buy rival Family Dollar Stores Inc. FDO, +4.93%   in an all-cash deal worth $78.50 a share. That’s higher than Dollar Tree Inc.’s DLTR, -2.42%  cash-and-stock bid in July of $74.50 a share. Family Dollar jumped 4.9% for the second-best gain in the S&P 500.
In commodity markets, oil prices CLU4, +0.29% fell after Iraqi Kurds recaptured a large chunk of the biggest dam in the country from Islamist militants, with help from U.S. air power.

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

AT&T:

American Express:

Boeing:

Caterpillar:

Chevron:

Cisco:

Coke:

Disney:

DuPont:

Exxon:

GE:

Goldman Sachs:

Home Depot:

Intel:

IBM:

JPMorgan:

Johnson & Johnson:

McDonald's:

Merck:

Microsoft:

Nike:

Pfizer:

Procter & Gamble:

3M:

Travelers:

United Technologies:

UnitedHealth:

Verizon:

Visa:

Walmart:

Monday's Closing Dow Numbers:

SymbolLast SaleChange% ChangeShare VolumeMarket
T▼ NYSE
AXP▲ NYSE
BA▲ NYSE
CAT▲ NYSE
CVX▲ NYSE
CSCO▲ NASDAQ-GS
KO▲ NYSE
DIS▲ NYSE
DD▲ NYSE
XOM▲ NYSE
GE▲ NYSE
GS▲ NYSE
HD▼ NYSE
INTC▲ NASDAQ-GS
IBM▲ NYSE
JPM▲ NYSE
JNJ▲ NYSE
MCD▲ NYSE
MRK▼ NYSE
MSFT▲ NASDAQ-GS
NKE▲ NYSE
PFE▲ NYSE
PG▲ NYSE
MMM▲ NYSE
TRV▲ NYSE
UTX▲ NYSE
UNH▲ NYSE
VZ▼ DualListed
V▲ NYSE
WMT▲ NYSE

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 Here are the current CEOs of the Dow 30 Companies:

AT&T T Randall L. Stephenson (Dallas, TX)


American Express AXP Kenneth I. Chenault (NY, NY)


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)


Goldman Sachs GS Lloyd Blankfein (NY, NY)


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 Satya Nadella (Redmond, WA)


Nike NK Mark Parker (Beaverton, OR)


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)


Visa V Charles W. Scharf (Foster City, CA)


Wal-Mart WMT Doug McMillon (Bentonville, ARK)


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Here are the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 as of close of business 8/7/14 ranked in order of market capitalization in billions:

1. Exxon Mobil XOM $418.65
2. Microsoft MSFT 356.04
3. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 281.15
4. GE 256.47
5. Chevron CVX 238.71
6. WalMart WMT 237.93
7.  JPMorgan Chase JPM 224.82
8. Procter & Gamble PG 216.42
9.  Verizon VZ 201.40
10.  IBM 183.57
11. Pfizer PFE 178.73
12. AT&T T 178
13. Coke KO 173.68
14. Merck MRK 163.19
15.  Intel INTC 162.39
16. Disney DIS 145.76
17. Visa V 131.49
18. Cisco CSCO 126.87
19. Home Depot HD 110.36
20. United Technologies UTX 95.04
21. McDonald's MCD 99.70 
22. American Express AXP 90.72
23. 3M MMM 90.28
24. Boeing BA 86.34 
25. Goldman Sachs GS 77.51
26. UnitedHealth UNH 77.09
27. Nike NKE 66.49
28. Caterpillar CAT 64.15
29. DuPont DD 59.22
30. Travelers TRV 30.48

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Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of close of business 8/7/14:

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

AT&T T:
8/1/14 10Q & 7/24/14 8K & 7/23/14 8K  re: qtr ended 6/30
7/1/14 S-4 re: purchase of DirecTV
6/30/14 8K re: increase Board of Dirs from 13 to 14 and election of Glenn H., Hutchins to Board
6/27/14 8K re: sale of its shares of America Movil for $5.5 bil
6/27/14 8K re: securitization facility between New Cingular subsidiary & Citibank
6/11/14 8K sale of 2.4% Global Notes due 2024
6/10/14 8K sale of $2 bil of 4.8% Global Notes due 2044
6/3/14 8K re: notice of redemption of 4 classes of notes
6/3/14 8K re: Reg. FD disclosure re: proposed acquisition of DirecTV
6/3/14 8K re: update on network transformation, 2Q trends & full year '14 guidance

American Express AXP:
7/30/14 10Q & 7/29/14 8K re: qtr. ended 6/30/14
7/15/14 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats for 3 months ended 6/30/14
6/30/14 8K re: 50% jv with Certares for global business travel
6/23/14 8K re: appointment of Laureen E. Seeger as general Counsel
6/16/14 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats  for 3 mos ended 5/31/14

Boeing BA:
7/23/14 10Q & 7/23/14 8K re: 2Qtr ended 6/30/14
5/12/14 8K re: amendment of CEO's employment contract
4/30/14 8K re: voting results from annual meeting of shareholders
4/23/14 10Q & 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31/14

Caterpillar CAT:
8/1/14 10Q & 7/24/14 8K re: 2Q ended 6/30/14
7/23/14 8K re: rolling 3 mos. retail sales stats.
6/19/14 8K re: 3 mos. retail sales stats.
6/12/14 8K re: stockholder approval of '14 long term incentive plan & exec. short term incentive plan
6/11 8K re: increase of quarterly dividend by 17% to 70 cents per share payable 8/20 to record holders on 7/21

Chevron CVX:
8/6/14 10Q & 8/1/14 8K & 7/10/14 8K re: 2Q ended 6/30/14
6/3/14 8K re: voting results of annual stockholder meeting
5/2/14 10Q & 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31 results
4/10/14 Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders on 5/28 at Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Midland, Tx at 8 am
4/9/14 8K re: Interim update for 1Q



Cisco CSCO:
7/31/14 8K re: resignation from BoD of Gregory Q. Brown
6/25/14 8K re: adoption of pre-arranged stock trading plan by executive
5/22/14 10Q & 5/14/14 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 4/26 results


Coke KO:
7/30/14 10Q & 7/22/14 8K re: qtr ended 6/27/14
4/30/14 10Q/A & 4/24/14 10Q for 1Qtr ended 3/28 results
4/25/14 8K re: election of Kathy N. Waller as CFO
4/23/14 8K re: approval of Equity Comp. Plan
4/15/14 8K re: 1Q results
4/3/14 & 3/28/14 Proxy material re: issue of exec. comp.


Disney DIS:
8/5/14 & 8/5 8K re: 10Q for 3Qtr ended 6/28/14 
6/27/14 8K re: amendment to By-laws re: calling of shareholder meeting
6/2/14 8K re: sale of global notes
5/6/14 8K & 10Q for 1Qtr ended 3/29 results


DuPont DD:
8/5/14 8K re: election of Ulf M.  Mark Scheider
7/22/14 10Q & 7/22/14 8K re: qtr ended 6/30/14
6/26/14 8K re: lower earnings outlook for 2Q & 2014
4/28/14 8K re: voting results of Stockholders Mtg
4/22/14 10Q & 4/17/14 re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31


ExxonMobil XOM:
8/6/14 10Q & 7/31/14 8K re: 2Qtr ended 6/30/14
8/6/14 8K re: retirement of P.T. Mulva as VP/controller to be replaced by D.S. Rosenthal
6/2/14 8K re: voting results of annual meeting of shareholders
5/14/14 & 4/22/14 Proxy material re: exec comp
5/7/14 10Q & 5/1/14 8K re: 1 Qtr. ended 3/31 results
4/11/14 Proxy re: Shareholder Mtg on 5/28 at Myerson Symphony Ctr, Dallas, Tx at 9:30 am


GE:
7/31/14 10Q & 7/18/14 8K re: qtr ended 6/30/14
5/12/14 10Q & 4/17/14 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31 results
4/28/14 8K re: voting results from annual shareholders meeting
4/23/14 8K re: election of John J. Brennan to Board of Dirs.
4/17/14 8K re: 1Q results


Goldman Sachs GS:
8/7/14 10Q & 7/15/14 8K re: 2Qtr ended 6/30/14
6/4/14 8K re: sale of $900 mil of floating notes
5/29/14 8K re: tender offer for debt securities.
5/19/14 8K re: shareholder meeting voting results
5/19/14 10Q  re: 1 Qtr results ended 3/31


Home Depot HD:
6/12/14 8K re: completion of offering of senior notes
5/28/14 10Q & 5/20/14 8K re: 1 Qtr results
5/28/14 8K re: voting results from Shareholder Meeting
4/7/14 Proxy re: Shareholder Mtg 5/22 Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta, Ga. at 9:00 am



Intel INTC:
7/25/14 10Q & 7/15/14 8K re: qtr. ended 6/28/14
6/27/14 8K re: executive changes
6/23/14 8K re: election of Aneel Bhusri to Board of Director
6/12/14 8K re: raises of 2Q & full year revenue and gross margin expectations
5/28/14 8K re: voting results from Stockholder Mtg


IBM:
7/29/14 10Q & 7/18/14 8K & 7/17/14 8K re: qtr. ended 6/30/14
7/29/14 8K re: election of CEO of JNJ Alex Gorsky & Peter R. Voser to BoD
6/2/14 8K re: completion of SEC investigation re: reporting of cloud rev with no action taken
5/14/14  2 8Ks re: FD disclosures re: investors' meeting
5/2/14 8K re: voting results from Stockholder Mtg
4/29/14 10Q for 1 Qtr. ended 3/31
4/17/14 & 4/16/14 8K re: 1Q earnings presentation
4/3/14 Proxy re: add't'l info



JPMorganChase JPM:
8/4/14 10Q & 7/15/14 8K & 7/15/14 8K re: qtr. ended 6/30/14
7/2/14 8K re: CEO Jamie Dimon having throat cancer
7/1/14 8K re: reduction of warrant exercise price
6/23/14 & 6/9/14  8Ks (2) re: modification of rights of holders of preferred shares
6/11/14 8K re: Reg FD disclosure re: investor presentation
5/22/14 8K re: Voting results from Shareholder Mtg.
5/13/14 8K re: Offering of notes



Johnson & Johnson JNJ:
8/1/14 10Q & 7/15/14 8K re: Qtr ended 6/29/14
7/21/14 8K re: $5 bil share repurchase program
6/30/14 8K re: complete sale of Ortho-clinical Diagnostics to Carlyle Group
6/19/14 8K re: election of UPS CEO D. Scott Davis to Board of Directors
5/2/14 10Q for 1 Qtr ended 3/30



McDonald's MCD:
8/4/14 & 7/22/14 & 7/18/14 8K re: qtr. ended 6/30/14
6/10/14 8K re: global comparable sales for May
6/9/14 8K re: sale of $500 mil of notes
5/28/14 8K re: Voting results of Shareholder Mtg
5/27/14 8K re: retirement of Timothy Fenton
5/8/14 8K re: April sales
5/6/14 10Q & 4/222/14 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31 results



Merck MRK:
9/29/14 8K re: 2Q results
5/29/14 8K re: voting results of Shareholder Mtg
5/8/14 10Q & 4/29/14 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31
5/6/14 8K re: FD re: Investor briefing


Microsoft MSFT:
7/31/14 10K for year ended 6/30/14
7/31/14 8K re: increased BoD to 11 & election of John W. Stanton
7/22/14 8K re: 4Q results
7/17/14 8K re: restruction & related charges
4/24/14 10Q & 4/24/14 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31 results


Nike NKE:
Sec. 14A Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held 9/18/14 at Tiger Woods Conf. center, Beaverton, Or.
7/25/14 10K for year ended 5/31/14
6/30/14 8K re: Reg. FD disclosure re: 4Q conference call
6/26/14 8K re: 4Q & full year 2014 results
6/23/14 8K re: election of  John Donahoe to Board of Directors
4/7/14 10Q & 3/25/14 & 3/20/14 8Ks re: Year ended 2/28/14




Pfizer PFE:
7/29/14 8K re: 2Q results
6/26/14 8K re: election of James C. Smith to Board of Directors
5/27/14; 5/20/14; 5/13/14; 5/2/14  & 4/28/14 8Ks all with respect to bid for and withdrawal of bid for AstraZeneca
5/19/14 8K re: offering of floating rate notes
5/15/14 8K re: public offering of notes
5/8/14 10Q & 5/5/14 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/30 results



Procter & Gamble PG:
8/1/14  2 8Ks re: 4Q results
7/8/14 8K re: quarterly div. of 64 cents per share payable 8/15 to record holders of 7/18
6/25/14 8K re: exec changes
6/11/14 8K re: sale of pet care business
4/23/14 10Q & 2 8Ks re 1 Qtr ended 3/31 results
4/9/14 8K re: sale of Pet Food biz to Mars for $2.9 bil
4/7/14 8K re: dividend of 64 cents  on common & preferred shares


3M MMM:
7/31/14 10Q & 7/24/14 re: qtr. ended 6/30/14
6/9/14 8Ks (2) re: executive changes
6/4/14 8K re: sale of notes
5/16/14 8K re: sale of notes
5/15/14 8K re: transfer of product lines between divisions
5/14/14 8K re: results of votes of Stockholders
5/1/14 10Q & 4/24/14 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31
4/15/14; 3/27/14; & 3/26/14 Proxy re: Stockholder Mtg on 5/13/14 at 10:00 am at Austin Conv. Ctr. at Austin, Tx
4/8/14 8K re: imminent danger order issued and then lifted for Greystone Plant at Wauscu, Wisc.


Travelers TRV:
7/22/14 10Q & 8K re: qtr ended 6/30/14
6/2/14 8K re: approval of 2014 stock incentive plan
4/22/14 10 Q & 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31 results
4/11/14 Proxy re: shareholder Mtg on 5/27 at 1 pm at Hartford Marriott Downtown, Hartford, Ct.



United Technologies UTX:
7/25/14 10Q & 7/22/14 8K for qtr. ended 6/30/14
5/2/14 8K amendment of Long Term Incentive Plan
4/25/14 10Q & 4/22/14 8K re: 1 Qtr ended 3/31 results
4/8/14 Proxy re: add'l info


UnitedHealth Group UNH:
8/4/14 & 8/1/14 8K & 7/17 8K re: qtr. ended 6/30/14
6/6/14 8K re: results of annual meeting of shareholders
5/23/14 8K re: investor presentation
5/6/14 10 Q & 4/17/14 8K re: 1Q ended 3/31results
4/23/14 2 proxy filings for Annual Meeting of Shareholders on 6/2/14 at 10 am at Anthony Marton Aud. in Las Vegas



Verizon Communications Inc. VZ:
8/6/14 2 8Ks re: terms of exchange offer re: Altel
6/26/14; 6/12/14; 6/11/14; & 6/2/14 8Ks (4) results of exchange offer
5/29/14 8K re: exchange offer of notes
5/6/14 8K re: technical amendment to Bylaws
4/29/14 10Q & 4/24/14 8K re: 1 Qtr results ended 3/31
4/11/14 Proxy re: add'l info

Visa V:
7/24/14 10Q & 7/24/14 8K re: qtr ended 6/30/14
7/23/14 8K re: quarterly div. of 40 cents payable 9/3 to record holders as of 8/15.
6/3/14 8K re: retirement of CFO Byron H. Pollitt, Jr.
4/24/14 10Q & 8K re: 2 Qtr ended 3/31/14 results
4/23/14 8K re: quarterly cash dividend of 40 cents per share


WalMart WMT:
7/24/14 8K re: election of Greg Foran as Pres/CEO of Walmart USA  to replace Bill Simon
6/10/14 8K re: results of annual meeting of shareholder
6/6/14 10Q  for quarter ended 4/30/14
5/29/14 & 4 filings  on 4/23/14 Proxy Materials re: 6/6/14 Annual Shareholder Meeting at 7 am at Bud Walton Arena, Fayetteville, Ark
5/15/14 8K re: 1 Qtr results
4/21/14 8K re: sale of notes
4/7 8K re: issuance of euro Notes due '22

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