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Post No. 1,655 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 May 16 and recent Dow 30 components' SEC filings as of May 16.

A read of the print editions of  Monday's Barron's and Investor's Business Daily, the combined Sat/Sun issue of Wall St. Journal &amp &  Financial Times, New York Times, Saturday's  The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press and the Kalamazoo Gazette yielded the following stories about Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 component companies and the Dow with stories about the Dow aggregated first and then items about Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 companies presented alphabetically, followed by a separate table of Dow component's symbol and Friday's stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.

Dow Jones AverageThe Dow Jones Industrial Average closed  Friday at 12,118.57 down 274.88 or 2.22% from Thursday's close of 12,393.45.  For the week the Dow is down 336.26 points or  2.71% from last Friday's close of 12,454.83.  For the year the Dow is down 0.81%. Of the 30 Dow components all 30 declined.  The biggest decliner dollar-wise  was IBM and percentage-wise was  Hewlett-Pakcard.

WSJ pB1 "Dow tumbles into red for the year"  by Jon Cheng says the Dow sank into the red for the year after a dismal US jobs report ent investors fleeing  stocks and into  the  safety of bonds.

Sat NYT pB1 "Wall St tumbles 2% on jobs data" by Christine Hausser says in their worst daily performance this year stocks dropped mroe than 2% on Wall St Fri & US gov bond yields fell to record lows as  investors sought refuge amid new signs of trouble in the global economy.

Inv. Bus. Daily pB6 "Stocks slammed hard as top issues lead way down" by Paul Whitfield says stock indexes on Fri undercut recent lows & several indexes pierced their 200 day moving averages fo the first time in months.  Friday's action was indexes lunge in mixed volume.  The current outlook  is the market is in a correction.

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 0.132129493. Saturday's trailing P/E ratio is 13.35 down from Friday's trailing P/E ratio of 13.66 (year ago it was 13.93);  Saturday's P/E estimate is 11.78 up from Friday's P/E estimate of 11.75 (year ago it was 12.54) and Saturday's dividend yield is 2.77 up from Friday's dividend yield of 2.66 (last year it was 2.43). 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 1,601.22 down 36.32 from Thursday's closing numerator of 1,637.54. 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 (0.132129493) you get the decrease in today's Dow. A $1 change in the price of any DJIA stock = a 7.57 change in the average.

The average closing price (the closing numerator divided by 30) of  Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $53.37 down  $1.21 from Thursday's average closing price of $54.58. The median closing price of Friday's Dow Jones Industrial Average was $47.96 (HD/DD)  down 0.83 from Thursday's median closing price of $48.80. The lowest volume was 3M and the highest volume again was Bank of America.

If Friday morning before the market opened you had purchased 100 shares of each of the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 shares (assuming you could buy fractional shares  and assuming no transaction costs) and sold at the close you would have lost  $3,632 ($163,754 - $160,122).

MarketWatch  Friday 3:23 by Laura Mandaro says U.S. stocksfell more than 2% Friday, turning the Dow industrials negative for the year and pushing the S&P 500 into correction territory, after a U.S. jobs report showed slim growth last month.The report, following downbeat data from China and Europe, raised serious concerns about the health of the global economy and sent investors running into the dollar, Treasurys and gold.The Dow Jones Industrial Average  DJIA -2.22% fell 267 points, or 2%, to 12,126. The index is now down 2.6% for the week and 0.7% for the year.
The S&P 500 Index  SPX -2.46% dropped 31.11 points, or 2.4%, to 1,279.31, undercutting what some analysts see as support at 1,280.The index is 10% off an intraday, 52-week high of 1,422.38, reached on April 2.This 10% pullback, which is often termed a technical correction, “doesn’t mean we’re in a bear market. But it does mean you have to recalibrate for a world where the U.S. is going to barely grow 2%, Europe is a chronic source of stress, and emerging markets, at least for now, are not contributing much,” said Russ Koesterich, global chief investment strategist at BlackRock iShares.The Nasdaq Composite Index  COMP -2.83% declined 73.04 points, or 2.6%, to 2,754.96. It had already entered correction mode prior to Friday’s retreat, as investors dumped what had been the best performing assets to start the year.The S&P 500 remains up 1.8% for the year, while the Nasdaq is 5.8% higher, largely due to strong gains in the first quarter. Gold futures rallied as investors sought a safe haven and the dollar fell on speculation that the weak data could trigger more quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve.The August gold contract  GCQ2 +3.80%  surged $57.90, or 3.7%, to $1,622.10 an ounce, its best day since August. Yields on 10-year Treasury notes  10_YEAR -6.66% hit a fresh low of 1.44% and recently traded down 10 basis points at 1.46%. “People are fearing the modest growth we were expecting for the U.S. may fade,” said Scott Wren, senior equity strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors in St. Louis.“In addition to the European sovereign-debt scenario, which I think won’t go away anytime soon, and fears China is slowing down, over the last couple months we’ve had some deterioration in U.S. data,” he added.
The losses for stocks came after the Labor Department reported Friday that the U.S. economy added only 69,000 jobs in May, while economists polled by MarketWatch expected an increase of 165,000. The unemployment rate edged up to 8.2% from 8.1% as more people entered the workforce. Adding to the gloom, manufacturing data from Europe and China also pointed to deteriorating economic conditions.In the U.S., the Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index fell to 53.5% in May from 54.8% in April. Economists polled by MarketWatch had forecast a slide to 54%. Readings above 50 indicate the sector is still expanding. Stocks on Thursday ended with losses of 6% or more for the month of May, hammered by concerns that Greece might exit the euro zone, Spain would need an international bailout and Chinese growth was cooling. It was the worst month since May 2010 for the Dow and the Nasdaq. The year “2012 is beginning to look horribly like 2011 — initial high hopes that the recovery was kicking into high gear, subsequently dashed,” wrote Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight, in an emailed report. “There’s clearly less momentum than Fed participants had anticipated. For that reason, we expect the Fed will probably try to keep pumping in stimulus in some form in the second half of the year,” he said.All 30 Dow components were lower Friday, led by a 6.1% loss in Hewlett-Packard Co.  HPQ -6.31%  shares and a 4.6% drop in Bank of America Corp. / BAC -4.49% .
A third straight disappointing monthly U.S. jobs report sends stocks tumbling and turns the Dow Jones Industrial Average red for the year.On the S&P 500, PulteGroup / PHM -11.75% , D.R. Horton Inc.  DHI -8.37%   and Lennar Corp. /quotes/zigman/232035/quotes/nls/len LEN -8.32%  shares sank 8% to 11% each as the home builders came under fire following the jobs data.
On the upside, Newmont Mining Corp.  NEM +6.66%  rallied 6.6%, the best on the S&P 500. The gold-mining company has promised shareholders to increase its quarterly dividend based on the averaged realized gold price for the preceding quarter.Nasdaq component Groupon Inc.  GRPN -8.93%  dropped 9.4% to $9.65 after hitting a record low of $9.53. On Friday, restrictions expired on insiders from selling shares after its initial public offering last year.

Saturday's Dow news followed by Friday's Dow Closing Numbers:

AT&T:

Alcoa:

American Express:

Bank of America:  WSJ pB5 "BofA? yes, you hear right!" by Steve Russolillo says if you stip out Bank of America from the S&P 500 index earnings estimates, instead of an expectation of 4.3% gain, the growth rate for earnings estimates falls to a minus 0.5%.

Boeing:

Caterpillar:

Chevron:

Cisco:

Coke:
WSJ pB3 "At Walmart, maturity means fat dividends" by Shelly Banjo, Sat NYT pB3 "The annual shareholders' meeting for Walmart, like its stock, is buoyant" by Stephanie Clifford say 14,000 employees and investors attended the annual meeting of Walmart at the Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Ark.  Walmart's dividend yield of 2.4%, according to WSJ, is in the top half of dividend paying stocks in the S&P 500 placing it on the index's "dividend aristocrat" list along with Exxon and Coke.
Disney:

DuPont:

Exxon:
WSJ pB3 "At Walmart, maturity means fat dividends" by Shelly Banjo, Sat NYT pB3 "The annual shareholders' meeting for Walmart, like its stock, is buoyant" by Stephanie Clifford say 14,000 employees and investors attended the annual meeting of Walmart at the Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Ark.  Walmart's dividend yield of 2.4%, according to WSJ, is in the top half of dividend paying stocks in the S&P 500 placing it on the index's "dividend aristocrat" list along with Exxon and Coke.
GE:

Hewlett-Packard:

Home Depot:

Intel

IBM:

Johnson & Johnson:

JPMorgan:

Kraft:

McDonald's:

Merck:  WSJ ppA3 "New cancer drugs use body's owndefenses" by Ron Winslow, Sat NYT pB3 "Drug helps defense system fight cancer" by Andrew Pollack say there is great hope that PD-1 inhibitors that block a protein called PD-1 could fight cancer.  Merck is one of several firms that is pursuing drugs that block the action of PD-1 to shrink tumors.

Microsoft:  IBD pA2 "Apple rated top Internet firm" says  Apple's profit for the qarter ended March was $11.6 bil a 94% jump from a year ago.  Microsoft fell 2.4% to $5.1 bil.  Apple's op rev soared 59% to $39.2 bil vs. a 6% climb for Microsoft to $17.4 bil.

IBD pA2 "Windows 8 upgrade offering" says Microsoft gave more details about its new op system and said it will make the "do not track" ption the default setting on its latest version of Internet Explorer, IE10.

IBD pA5 "Game makers seek spark from Microsoft, Nintendo" by Pat Seitz says Microsoft kicked off the current generation of machines with the Xbox 360 in Nov '05.  Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii followed a year later.

Pfizer:

Procter & Gamble:

3M:

Travelers:

United Technologies:

Verizon:  IBD pA2 "Verizon" says the No. 1 US wireless service provider said it wold buy Hughes telematics for $12 a share or $612 mil.  Hughes is a provider of real time voice and data services and apps used in vehicles. 

Walmart: WSJ pB3 "At Walmart, maturity means fat dividends" by Shelly Banjo, Sat NYT pB3 "The annual shareholders' meeting for Walmart, like its stock, is buoyant" by Stephanie Clifford say 14,000 employees and investors attended the annual meeting of Walmart at the Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Ark.  Walmart's dividend yield of 2.4%, according to WSJ, is in the top half of dividend paying stocks in the S&P 500 placing it on the index's "dividend aristocrat" list along with Exxon and Coke.

Friday's Dow Closing Numbers:

Symbol Last Sale Change % Change Share Volume Market
TNYSE
AANYSE
AXPNYSE
BACNYSE
BANYSE
CATNYSE
CSCONASDAQ-GS
KONYSE
DISNYSE
DDNYSE
XOMNYSE
GENYSE
HPQNYSE
HDNYSE
INTCNASDAQ-GS
IBMNYSE
JPMNYSE
JNJNYSE
KFTNYSE
MCDNYSE
MRKNYSE
MSFTNASDAQ-GS
PFENYSE
PGNYSE
MMMNYSE
TRVNYSE
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)

Kraft KFT Irene Rosenfeld (Northfield, Ill.)

McDonald's MCD Jim Skinner to be replaced July 1 by Don Thompson (Oak Brook, Ill)

Merck MRK Kenneth Frazer (Whitehouse Station, N.J.)

Microsoft MSFT Steve Ballmer (Redmond, WA)

Pfizer PFE Ian Read (NY, NY)

Procter & Gamble PG Bob McDonald (Cincinnati, OH)

3M MMM Inge Thulin (St. Paul, MN)

Travelers TRV Jay S. Fishman (NY, NY)

United Technologies UTX Louis Chenevert (Hartford, CT)

Verizon VZ Lowell McAdam (NY, NY)

Wal-Mart WMT Mike Duke (Bentonville, ARK)

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Here are the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 as of 5/16/12 ranked in order of market capitalization rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion followed by number of shares outstanding rounded to the nearest 1/2 billion:


1. Exxon Mobil XOM $382.5 [4.5]

2. Microsoft MSFT 253.5 [8.5]

3. IBM 229.5 [1]

4. WalMart WMT 202 [3.5]

5. Chevron CVX 200 [2]

6. AT&T T 195.5 [6]

7. GE 195 [10.5]

8.Procter & Gamble PG 174.5 [3]


9. Johnson & Johnson JNJ 174.5 [3]

10. Coke KO 173 [2]

11. Pfizer PFE 167 [7.5]

12. JPMorgan Chase JPM 138 [4]

13. Intel INTC 134 [5]

14. Verizon VZ 116.5 [3]

15. Merck MRK 115 [3]

16. McDonald's MCD 92.5 [1]

17. Cisco CSCO 89 [5.5]

18. Disney DIS 80.5 [2]

19. Bank of America BAC 78.5 [10.5]

20. Home Depot HD 74 [1.5]

21. United Technologies UTX 69.5 [1]

22. Kraft KFT 69 [2]

23. American Express AXP 67 [1]

24. Caterpillar CAT 60.5 [.5]

25. 3M MMM 59.5 [.5]

26. Boeing BA 54.5 [1]

27. DuPont DD 47 [1]

28. Hewlett-Packard HPQ 44 [2]

29. Travelers TRV 25 [.5]

30. Alcoa AA 9 [1]


Here are the latest 8K, 10Q & 10K & Proxy & certain other SEC filings as of 5/16/12:



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



AT&T T: 5/4/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31

5/2/12 8K re: Results of Annual Stockholders Meeting

4/24/12 2 8Ks re: 1 Qtr results

3/12/12 Proxy Materials re: Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on 4/27/12 at 9 a.m. at Grand American Hotel, Salt lake City, Utah

Alcoa AA: 5/10/12 8K re: Results of Annual Shareholders Meeting

5/8/12 8K re: Sustainability Highlights Report

4/16/12 8K re: 1Q Earnings call transcript

4/11/12 8K re: 1Q results

3/12/12 & 3/1/12 Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 5/4/12 9:30 am, Fairmont Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA


American Express AXP: 5/15/12 8K re: delinquency & write-off stats thru 4/30

5/3/12 8K re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders results

5/1/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31

4/18/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

4/16/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats thru 3/31

3/26/12 8K re: dividend of 20 cents a share payable 5/10 to holders at 4/5 & stock buyback plan of up to 150 mil shares

3/20 & 3/2/12 Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 4/30/12 9 am American Express HQ, NYC

3/15/12 8K re: delinq. & write-off stats thru 2/29

3/13/12 8K re: Comprehensive Capital Plan




Bank of Am BAC: 5/9/12 8K re: results of Annual Shareholders meeting

5/4/12 8K re: change of presentation of fin'l info

5/3/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31

4/23/12 Proxy material for 5/9 Annual Meeting

4/19/12 8K 1Q results

4/11/12 8K re: reclassification of business segments

3/16/12 8K re: sale of preferred stock




Boeing BA: 5/3/12 8K re: amendment to bylaws reducing number of directors from 12 to 11

4/25/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/25/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

3/16/12 Proxy materials re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 4/30/12 10 am Field Museum, Chicago




Caterpillar CAT: 5/7/12 10Q for 1 Qtr ended 3/31

4/25 8K re: 3/12 dealer stats

4/25/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

4/23/12 Proxy re: 6/13/12 Annual Stockholders Meeting at San Antonio, Tx

4/12/12 8K re: election of fromer Utah Gov. and Ambassador Jon Huntsman to Board of Dirs.

4/11/12 Proxy materials re: Annual Meeting of Stockholders on 6/13/12 at 8 am, Marriott Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas

3/20/12 8K re: dealer stats thru 2/12




Chevron CVX: 5/3/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

5/3/12 Proxy material re: voting recommendations

4/27/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

4/12/12 & 3/29/12 Proxy material re: Annual Meeting og stockholders on 4/4/12 9:30 am HQ, San Ramon, CA

4/10/12 8K re: 1Q update

3/29/12 8K & Proxy materials re: amendment of bylaws re: litigation in Delaware courts, raise of CEO and other execs' salaries and election of Charles "Wick" Moorman to Board of Dirs.



Cisco CSCO : 5/9/12 8K re: 3 Qtr results

3/27/12 8K re: execs' pre-arranged stock trading plans

3/15/12 8K re: acquisition of NDS Group Ltd, a provider of video software for $5 bil




Coke KO: 5/15/12 Proxy re: special meeting of stockholders to approve stock split to be held at Atlanta on 7/10/12 to get invited email: shareownerservices@na.ko.com by 5/21

3/14/12 8K re: closing of sale of over $1 bil of notes

3/8/12 Proxy materials re Annual meeting of shareowners 4/15/12 9:30 am Cobb Galeria, Atlanta




Disney DIS: 5/8/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

5/8/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

3/16/12 8K re: amendment to 2011 Stock Incentive Plan




DuPont DD: 5/1/12 8K re: Annual meeting of stockholders results

4/24/12 10Q re: quarter ended 3/31

4/19/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

4/17/12 Proxy re: voting recommendations

4/3/12 & 3/16/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of stockholders 4/25/12 10:30 am HQ Wilmington, Del

3/15/12 8K re: retirement of William K. Reilly from Board of Dirs.




ExxonMobil XOM: 5/11/12 proxy re: voting recommendations

5/3/12 10Q ended 3/31

4/26/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

4/12/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders 5/30/12 9 am Meyerson Center, Dallas

3/28/12 8K re: Fin'l Operations review info on website

3/14/12 8K re: transcript of 3/8 analysts meeting




GE: 5/16/12 8K re: dividend of $475 mil & increase of stock buyback program

5/9/12 10Q/A & 5/4/12 10Q for Qtr ended 3/31

4/30/12 8K amending emmployee incentive plan

4/20/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results


4/9/12 & 3/9/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 4/25/12 10 am Detroit Marriott

4/6/12 8K re: downgrade of GE senior unsecured debt rating by Moodys from Aa2 to aa3 and other downgrade

3/16/12 8K re: GE Capital segment fin'l info as of 12/31/11




Hewlett-Packard HPQ: 3/23/12 8K re: exec changes and amendment to bylaws decreasing Board of Dirs from 14 to 11

3/12/12 10Q for Qtr ended 1/31/12

3/12/12 8K re: underwriting of $2 bil of Global Notes




Home Depot HD: 5/15/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

4/2/12 Proxy material and 10K for year ended 1/29/12 and material re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 5/17 at 9 am at Cobb Galeria, Atlanta



Intel INTC: 5/11/12 8K re: Reg FD disclosure of webcast

5/7/12 8K re: 90 cents a share dividend

5/4/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/18/12 & 4/17/12 8Ks re: 1 Qtr results

4/4/12 Proxy material re: annual stockhodles meeting 5/17/12 8:30 am HQ, Santa Clara, CA

2/28/12 8K re: expansion of JV with Micron Tech for flash memory




IBM: 5/10/12 8K re: underwriting of notes

5/9/12 8K re: investor briefing materials

4/26/12 8K re: Annual stockholders meeting results

4/24/12 10Q re: Qtr ended 3/31

4/18/12 8K re: sale of IBM's Retail Store Solutions Business to Toshiba TEC

4/18/12 & 4/17/12 8Ks re: 1 Qtr results

3/22/12 & 3/12/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of stockholders on 4/24/12 10 am Charleston Convention Center, S.C.





JPMorganChase JPM: 5/15/12 8K re: retirement of Chief Inv. Office Ina Drew succeeded by Matthew E. Zames

5/10/12 10Q re: qtr ende 3/31

4/13/12 2 8Ks re: fin'l info on website & 1Q results

4/4/12 Proxy material re: annual meeting of shareholders 5/15/12 at JPM campus in Tampa, Fl

4/4/12 8K re: annual report on website

3/29/12 8K re: Reg. statement re: Global Med. Term Notes'

3/27/12 8K re: changes to Board of Dirs: election of Tim Flynn and retirement of William Gray & David Novak

3/14/12 8K re: dividend of 30 cents payable 4/30 to record holders as of 4/5 and $15 bil share buyback program

3/1/12 8K re: 2/28/12 Investor Day Presentation




Johnson & Johnson JNJ : 5/8/12 8K re: sale of DePuy Orthopaedics to Biomet

5/7/12 10Q re: qtr ended 4/1

4/27/12 8K re: results of annual meeting of stockholders

4/20/12 add'l proxy material
4/19/12 8K re: amendment to bylaws splitting the offices of Chairman & CEO

4/17/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

4/9/12 8K re: resignation of Vice Chair of Board, Sheri S. McCoy to join Avon as CEO

4/3/12 & 3/14/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of Shareholders on 4/26/12 10 am Grand Hyatt New Brunswick, NJ

3/28/12 8K re: new format for sales results





Kraft KFT: 5/14/12 proxy material re Annual meeting

5/4/12 10Q for qtr ended 3/31

5/3/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

4/2/12 & 3/23/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 5/23/12 at North Shore Performing Arts Center in Skokie, Ill.

3/20/12 8K re: $2.1 bil of costs and expenses re: spin-off of N. Amer. grocery business

3/15/12 8K re: nominations of Terry Lundgren & Jorge Mesquita to Board of Dirs.

3/14/12 8K re: revolving credit agreement




McDonald's MCD: 5/8/12 8K re: April sales

5/8/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/20/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

4/16/12 8K re: election of Tim Fenton as COO

4/13/12 & 3/7/12 Proxy materials re: annual meeting of shareholders on 5/24/12 at HQ at Oak Brook, Ill.

3/26/12 8K re: retirement of James Skinner as CEO effective 6/30/12 and his replacement as CEO of Donald Thompson

3/8/12 8K re: Feb. '12 sales results

3/7/12 Prelim Proxy re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders 5/24/12 at McDonald's HQ Oak Brook, Ill.




Merck MRK: 4/27/12 10Q re Qr ended 3/31

4/27/12 8K re: 1 Qtr results

4/12/12 Proxy materials re: annual meeting of Shareholders on 5/22/12 8:30 am at Bridgewater Marriott in NJ

3/30/12 8K re: Retirement from Board of Dirs of Steven Goldstone & Harry Jacobson




Microsoft MSFT: 5/3/12 8K re: election of Steve Luczo to Board, he is CEO of Seagate Tech

4/19/12 10Q for qtr ended 3/31

4/19/12 8K re 1 Qtr results



Pfizer PFE: 5/10/12 10Q for quarter ended 4/1

5/1/12 8K re: 1 qtr results

4/27/12 8K re: results of annual meeting of shareholders

4/23/12 8K re: ale of Nutrition business to Nestle for $11.85 bil

44/16/12 add't'l proxy material

3/15/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders 4/26/12 8:30 am Westin Governor Morris, Morristown, NJ




Procter & Gamble PG: 5/4/12 8K e: resentation of info re: Snack Business as a discontinued operation

4/27/12 10Q for qtr ended 3/31

4/27/12 2 8Ks re: 3 qtr results

4/13/12 8K re: dividend of 0.562 cents payable 5/15/12 to record holders at 4/27




3M MMM: 5/10/12 & 5/412 8Ks re: adoption of exec pre-arranged stock trading plans

5/9/12 2 8Ks re: approval of amendments to employee stock purchase plan

5/3/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/24/12 8K re: 1 qtr results

4/17/12 8K re: duties of Lead Inependent Director


3/21/12 Proxy materials re: annual meeting of stockhodlers 5/8/12 10 am River Centre, St. Paul, Minn




Travelers TRV: 4/19/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/19/12 8K re: results of quarter ended 3/31

4/10/12 Proxy materials re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 5/23/12 11 am Hartford, Marriott


United Technologies UTX: 4/30/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/24/12 8K re: 1 qtr results

4/13/12 8K re: retriement of charles Lee from Board of Dirs.

3/22/12 & 2/24/12 Proxy materials re: 4/11/12 Annual Meeting of Shareholders Riviera Theatre Charleston, SC

3/15/12 8K re: structure for proposed Goodrich acquisition




Verizon Communications Inc. VZ: 5/9/12 8K re: results of annual shareholders meeting

4/26/12 10Q for quarter ended 3/31

4/19/12 8K re: 1 qtr results

4/2/12 & 3/19/12 Proxy material re: Annual meeting of shareholders on 5/3/12 at 10:30 at Von Braun Center, Huntsville, Al.




WalMart WMT: 4/16/12 proxy material re: Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held 6/1 at 7 am at U. of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark.

3/27/12 10K for year ended 1/31/12 END

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