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May 15th, 2012



Question by roshansherigar2000: What are delivery and non-delivery trades in stock market terminology?
What are delivery and non-delivery trades in stock market terminology?
And how do they affect online trading?

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Answer by Serge M
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Dan Kolber: Stock Market News & Commentary: 5/11/12 Fri pm Dow …

May 11th, 2012
A read of the print editions of Friday’s Wall St. Journal, Financial Times, Investor’s Business Daily, New York Times, USA Today, Atlanta Journal Constitution & Daily Report (Ga. – carries Bloomberg) yielded the following stories about Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 component companies and the Dow with stories about the Dow aggregated first and then items about Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 companies presented alphabetically, followed by a separate table of Dow component’s symbol and Thursday’s stock prices and related data in alphabetical order.
Dow Jones Industrial Average The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Thursday at 12,855.04 up 19.98 or 0.16% from Wednesday’s close of 12,835.06. For the year the Dow is up 5.22 %. Of the 30 Dow components 18 gained and 12 declined. The biggest gainer dollar-wise was Chevron and percentage-wise was Pfizer. The biggest decliner dollar-wise and percentage-wise was Cisco.

WSJ pC4 “Dow gets back into the win column” by Chris Dietrick says the Dow broke a 6 day losing streak as a potential breakthrough by Greek political leaders to form a coalition gov eased concerns about its exit from the eurozone.  Cisco is charted under Bad News as it gave a downbeat outlook for next qtr.

Inv. Bus. Daily pB2 “Stock idnexes mostly up, but not nasdaq; trade off” by Paul Whitfield and  Inv. Bus. Daily pB6 “5 stocks rise despite tough market” by Paul Whitfield says when stocks go south, it’s useful to see what’s going north and one of them was Disney up 4% whose dividend yield is 1.3%.  Stocks checked in Thurs with a mixed performance as volume declined.  The current outlook is the market is still in a correction.  Home Depot bounced off its 50 day line and its bulidng products retailing group is highly rated.

NYT pB7 “Banks suffer after hours on word of Chase losses” by Retuers says stock index futures fell sharply on Thurs evening after JPMorgan stunned investors with news that its chief investment office had incurred significant mark to market losses that could easily get worse.   Cisco lost 10.5% its biggest percentage drop since Feb. ’11 making it the heaviest drag onthe market as it forecast lower profits sparking concerns about tech spending.

USA Today p4B “Unemployment report helps Dow snap losing streak at 6″ by AP says the Dow broke a 6 session losing streak after the gov released better unemployment numbers.

 Fin Times p22 “Cisco hit by setback in confidence as customer orders start to slow” by Arash Massoudi says Cisco became the latest victim of a setback in confidence in European & global growth as it said customer orders had been delayed due to economic uncertainty.  Chevron gained 1.6% on news  that it & Royal Dutch Sell were chosen to explore the Ukraine for natural gas.

MarketWatch Thurs. 4:16 by Laura Mandaro says Blue-chip U.S. stocks and the S&P 500 eked out minor gains Thursday, breaking a streak of losses, but a drop in some big tech names sapped most of the session’s early strength. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA+0.16% rose 19.98 points, or 0.2%, to 12,855.04. Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO-10.49% , down 10% at $16.81, and International Business Machines Corp. IBM-0.31% did the most damage to the price-weighted index. Still, it was the Dow’s first gain since May 1. The S&P 500 SPX+0.25% ended up 3.41 points, or 0.3%, to 1,357.99. Only tech and materials were lower. The Nasdaq Composite COMP-0.04% ended down 1.07 points, or 0.04%, to 2,933.64. “The S&P ignored the selloff [in] the tech sector for the first part of the day but the selling in that sector was just too much for the bulls to handle,” said Elliot Spar, options/market strategist at Stifel Nicolaus.

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

AT&T:   WSJ pB5 “T-Mobile struggles to stem customer losses” by Greg Bensinger says T_Mobile lost more than half a mil of its best customers in 1Q casting doubt on whether it can regain momentum after regulators blocked its sale to AT&T.

WSJ pB4 “Google preps for possible FTC fight” by Brent Kendall says Google’s fight are reminiscent of the Justice Dept’s recent antitrust challenge to AT&T’s failed bid to acquire T-Mobile USA.

Alcoa:  No mentions found.

American Express:  No mentions found.

Bank of America:  No mentions found.

Boeing:  No mentions found.

Caterpillar:  WSJ pB5 “Caterpillar Platinum Equty to buy stake in Logistics line” by Nikhil Gulati says Caterpillar will sell a 65% stake in its logistics biz to private equity firm Platinum Equity for about $490 mil.

Chevron:  Fin Times p22 “Cisco hit by setback in confidence as customer orders start to slow” by Arash Massoudi says Cisco became the latest victim of a setback in confidence in European & global growth as it said customer orders had been delayed due to economic uncertainty.  Chevron gained 1.6% on news  that it & Royal Dutch Sell were chosen to explore the Ukraine for natural gas.

Cisco:  WSJ pC4 “Dow gets back into the win column” by Chris Dietrick says the Dow broke a 6 day losing streak as a potential breakthrough by Greek political leaders to form a coalition gov eased concerns about its exit from the eurozone.  Cisco is charted under Bad News as it gave a downbeat outlook for next qtr.

WSJ pC10 “Riding into the trough with the Cisco skid” by Rolfe Winkle, Inv. Bus. Daily pA1 “Techs slip on Cisco warning” say Cisco is no longer a tech dynamo but a lumbering tech giant.

 NYT pB7 “Banks suffer after hours on word of Chase losses” by Retuers says stock index futures fell sharply on Thurs evening after JPMorgan stunned investors with news that its chief investment office had incurred significant mark to market losses that could easily get worse.   Cisco lost 10.5% its biggest percentage drop since Feb. ’11 making it the heaviest drag onthe market as it forecast lower profits sparking concerns about tech spending.

Fin Times p22 “Cisco hit by setback in confidence as customer orders start to slow” by Arash Massoudi says Cisco became the latest victim of a setback in confidence in European & global growth as it said customer orders had been delayed due to economic uncertainty.  Chevron gained 1.6% on news  that it & Royal Dutch Sell were chosen to explore the Ukraine for natural gas.

Coke:  No mentions found.

Disney:  Inv. Bus. Daily pB6 “5 stocks rise despite tough market” by Paul Whitfield says when stocks go south, it’s useful to see what’s going north and one of them was Disney up 4% whose dividend yield is 1.3%.

DuPont:  No mentions found.

Exxon:  No mentions found.

GE:  No mentions found.

Hewlett-Packard:  No mentions found.

Home Depot:  No mentions found.

Intel:  Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 “Intel sees ultrabooks hot” says rev from its data center unit may double to $20 bil by ’16 amid growth in cloud computing and mobile devices.

IBM:  Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 “IBM” says it is well positioned to meet its ’15 operating EPS goals of at least $20.

JPMorgan:  WSJ pA1 “JPMorgan’s $2 Billion blunder” by Dan Fitzpatrick, WSJ pC10 “JPMorgan trades in its banking crown” by David Reilly, Inv. Bus. Daily pA1 “JPMorgan admits hefty loss,” AJC pA15 “JPMorgan reveals $2 B portfolio loss” by Daniel Wagner, AP, NYT pB1 “A shock from JPMorgan is new fodder for reformers” by Nelson Schwartz, USA Today p1 B “JPMorgan reveals $2B loss in 6 weeks” by Adam Shell   say a massive trading bet left JPMorgan with $2 bil or more in trading losses due to large positions taken in the London office that bet on an economic recovery with trades tied to corporate bonds that was hit hard recently due to derivative trading losses. 


NYT pB7 “Banks suffer after hours on word of Chase losses” by Retuers says stock index futures fell sharply on Thurs evening after JPMorgan stunned investors with news that its chief investment office had incurred significant mark to market losses that could easily get worse.   Cisco lost 10.5% its biggest percentage drop since Feb. ’11 making it the heaviest drag onthe market as it forecast lower profits sparking concerns about tech spending.

Johnson & Johnson:  No mentions found.

Kraft:  No mentions found.

McDonald’s:  No mentions found.

Merck:  No mentions found.

Microsoft:  NYT pB1 “a revamping of Bing in the battle for search engine supremacy” by Nick WingfieldInv. Bus. Daily pA2 “Microsoft’s Bing goes social” says it will add features including tie ins with Facebook and Twitter.

Pfizer:  AJC pA16 “FDA allows new drug for rhematoid arthritis” says Pfizer’s pill tofacitnib was found safe by a panel of arthritis experts.

Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 “Pfizer may fight ruling on unit” says it may challenge an April appeals court ruling that it isn’t entitled to protection from some asbestos claims from its bankrupt Quiqley unit which it bought in ’68 and made asbestos containing products.

Procter & Gamble:  WSJ pB1 “P&G unit bids goodbye to Cincinnati, hello to Asia” by Emily Glazer says the top execs of its global skin, cosmetics & personal care unit are moving from Cincinnati to Singapore to reflect the importance of Asia’s fast growing beauty market.

3M:  No mentions found.

Travelers:  No mentions found.

United Technologies:  No mentions found.

Verizon:  No mentions found.

Walmart:  WSJ pB5 “Toys R Us, Walmart recall pool slides” by Kristin Jones says they are inflatble Banzai slides due to the ’06 death of a woman and injuries to 2 other people.

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May 8th, 2012







The annual National Basketball Association All-Star Game isn’t taken too seriously by basketball fans. It’s best appreciated as the culmination of a weekend of parties attended by athletes and their celebrity friends. Before the most recent competition on Feb. 26 at the Amway Center in Orlando, the players mingle beside the court with director Spike Lee and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson. Rapper-turned-actor Common visits Cee Lo Green. Their younger peers, Lil Wayne and his protégé, Drake, make faces for TNT’s cameras.

In the midst of this revelry, Al Palagonia, a fast-talking private jet broker with a thick Queens accent, is hustling. “Hey, Deron,” he calls out to New Jersey Nets point guard Deron Williams, who stops shooting baskets and trots over to discuss his flight home to the Garden State after the game. Palagonia speaks to Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant about the food on his post-game jet. And he huddles with Philadelphia 76ers forward Andre Iguodala. “I got his new phone number,” Palagonia says afterward. “These guys are always changing their phone numbers.”

Apollo Jets books about 4,000 flights a yearPhotograph by Andrew HetheringtonApollo Jets books about 4,000 flights a year

A convicted stock swindler, Palagonia, 45, helped found Apollo Jets, which has become one of the industry’s fastest-growing jet brokers, due largely to Palagonia’s approach: He uses jocks to lure suits. “My entire business model revolves around sports,” he explains. “I do business with a lot of athletes. Then you have the big wealthy business guy, spending half a million a year on front row seats. He doesn’t have any access to the players. But I do.”

Apollo’s clients pay dearly for these privileges. A one-way trip from New York to Los Angeles costs anywhere from $ 18,000 to $ 25,000 depending on the size of the plane. Palagonia says the privately held company books about 4,000 flights a year. He also gets his clients choice seats at games and arranges for his nonathlete customers to spend quality time with his friends and clients from the sports world, including Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard, and retired NBA all-star Shaquille O’Neal. “He has an affinity for professional athletes,” O’Neal says of Palagonia. “He loves sports, and he speaks their language.” Palagonia says he sometimes flies O’Neal for free or offers him discounts for referring his former teammates.

Private jet charter brokers have been around for several decades. They don’t own any jets themselves. Rather, they book flights on other people’s airplanes when their owners aren’t using them. Brokers say this enables them to charge much less than a company such as NetJets that offers fractional ownership of private jets. Using a charter broker, says David McCown, “is the most cost-effective way to fly private.” McCown is chairman of the Air Charter Association of North America and senior vice president of Air Partner, a private jet brokerage headquartered in Florida. “It’s pay as you go.” McCown says there are about 30 full-time charter brokers in the U.S., but that doesn’t count the concierges and limo companies that also offer the service.

People who use private jet brokers do so at their own risk. The business is largely unregulated. “All you need is a computer and a cell phone to become a private jet charter broker,” says James Wynbrandt, who covers the industry for Business Jet Traveler magazine. In the last decade it’s been inundated by former investment bankers, venture capitalists, and even a Manhattan steakhouse owner. Palagonia warns customers: “There are a lot of people with checkered pasts in this business—like me.”

The son of a sanitation worker, Palagonia grew up in the Ozone Park section of Queens. His uncle drove a limo for I.W. Burnham, a founder of Drexel Burnham Lambert, junk-bond king Michael Milken’s old firm. It was through this connection in 1984 that Palagonia landed his first financial industry job, cold-calling potential customers at the investment bank. Six years later he joined D.H. Blair, a boiler room notorious for peddling initial public offering shares in sketchy little companies. He became one of the firm’s top producers, making $ 1 million a month in commissions. “He is one of the most talented retail stockbrokers who has ever wielded a telephone handset,” author Joshua Brown writes in Backstage Wall Street, an exposé of the brokerage industry published in March. “Some say he had a shower and a bed installed in his office so that while he was putting away shares in hot deals, he’d never have to leave his phone.” Palagonia says the accounts are exaggerated: “I wanted to, but they wouldn’t let me. … I worked harder than anybody else. That’s what I do. I used to come into the office at 5 a.m. and I’d stay until 10, 11 almost every night.”

With his new Wall Street wealth, Palagonia indulged his passion for basketball. He followed his beloved New York Knicks around the country and befriended team mascot Spike Lee at a game in Chicago in 1992. “He had better seats than me,” Lee recalls. “He gave me his card and said, ‘I’ll get you better seats.’?” Lee was so taken with Palagonia that he cast him in his 1998 film He Got Game as a sports agent who dangles a platinum Rolex under the nose of high school basketball prospect, Jesus Shuttlesworth (played by real-life NBA star Ray Allen). “A lot of NBA players recognize me from that,” Palagonia says proudly. He has appeared in seven other Spike Lee movies.

In 2000, Palagonia was indicted for taking part in a pump-and-dump scheme along with members of New York’s Gambino and Colombo families (whom he says he never met until they shared a holding cell). He pleaded guilty to securities fraud and enterprise corruption and spent 24 months in prison. Palagonia makes no excuses. “What I did, I did,” he says. “But that’s something I’d rather not rehash.”

A lot of friends disappeared while he was behind bars. Lee was one of the few who stood by him. “Everybody makes mistakes,” the director says. “Al’s my man. I wouldn’t just desert him.” With the help of a former D.H. Blair colleague, Palagonia became a private jet broker. He spent a year at Halcyon Jets before departing to form his own company in 2008. He tells customers up front that he is an ex-con.

Palagonia spends much of NBA All-Star Weekend in Orlando with his headset on, coordinating flights on his BlackBerry. When he isn’t on the phone, he’s shepherding his clients and their families to various NBA-related events. On Friday night he arrives early at his luxury box at the Amway Center to greet his clients. There is an affordable housing developer from Long Island who is reluctant to be named. They’re joined by sports agent Roger Montgomery, who represents New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin. The jet broker is eager to get to know the agent. “Six months from now it will be like I’ve known him for 10 years,” Palagonia confides.

The next morning, Palagonia plays a surprisingly aggressive game of pickup ball at the hotel with sons of his clients, shoving them and accusing them of committing numerous fouls. After breakfast, he takes a larger group of customers to visit O’Neal at his palatial Orlando home. The sports legend signs jerseys and poses for pictures. Palagonia entertains everybody with a story about the difficulty he has getting small planes for the 7-foot-1 O’Neal.

On Sunday evening, he takes in the All-Star game courtside with Lee. Afterward he hurries to one of Orlando’s small airports, where a dozen jets await to transport his clients home. One by one, Palagonia sees them off. Steven Jomides, the owner of a large New Jersey landscaping company, is one of the last to depart. He’s happy to wait. The broker has arranged for Jomides and his family to share a jet with Jeremy Lin and his Knicks co-star Carmelo Anthony. “I’m still sleep-deprived,” Jomides says a week later. “We didn’t get home until 4 a.m. You can’t put a price tag on something like that.”

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Dan Kolber: Stock Market News & Commentary: 5/8/12 Tues pm …

May 8th, 2012
A day after voting in Greece and France, the head of the International
Monetary Fund spoke in favor of gradual moves to reduce budget deficits
to avoid inflicting more damage on struggling economies. IMF head
Christine Lagarde made her comments in an address in Zurich, but did not
refer to any individual countries.Last week, U.S. equities suffered their biggest declines this year after
a report had American corporations hiring fewer workers than forecast.

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

AT&T:  Inv.
Bus. Daily pA2 “Mobile phone sales lagging” says Droid Razr saw
improvement via a price cut at Verizon and AT&T and Verizon may
have had it harder than Motorola and Sprint re April handset sales in N.
America.

Fin Times p22 “AIG falls after Treasury announces part sale of its stake
at a discount” by Arash massoudi says US equities edged higher as
market watchers said investors had already priced in expectations that
pro austerity leaders in Europe would be defeated over the weekend. 
AT&T said it would enter the fast growing home automation markets
with a portfolio fo new services including remote energy and water
controls.  Verizon did the same in Oct.  Caterpillar lost 1.3%.

Alcoa:  No mentions found.

American Express:  No mentions found.

Bank of America:  WSJ pC1 “Stocks dismiss Europe’s rewind” by E.S. Browning says US &
European stocks proved resilient despite worries about electoral defeats
for gov leaders in France & Greece.   Fin’ls led the gainers with Bank of America up 2.8%.

Boeing
WSJ pB6 “Airlines fight FAA rule” by Andy Pasztor says US airlines want
the FAA to extend its deadline for modifying fuel tanks of Boeing 737
jets due to risk of explosion.

Caterpillar:  Fin Times p22 “AIG falls after Treasury announces part sale of its stake
at a discount” by Arash massoudi says US equities edged higher as
market watchers said investors had already priced in expectations that
pro austerity leaders in Europe would be defeated over the weekend. 
AT&T said it would enter the fast growing home automation markets
with a portfolio fo new services including remote energy and water
controls.  Verizon did the same in Oct.  Caterpillar lost 1.3%.

Chevron:  No mentions found.

Cisco:  No mentions found.

Disney
WSJ pC1 “Avengers adds magic to Disney’s kingdom” by Spencer Jakab
says  the Avengers comes too late to boost what looks to be a weak
quarter for Disney partially due because of the flop John Carter.  
Disney is expected to report earnings today of 56 cents per share for
2Q.

Fin Times p19 “ABC and Univision eye English
speaking Hispanics” by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, NYT pB4 “Univision and
ABC to start an English channel to reach Hispanics” by Brian Stelter,
Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 “Disney”, WSJ pB1 “Univision, ABC to start news
channel in English” by Chris Stewart say they will create a 24 hour
cables news channel that will target Hispanics in the US.

DuPont:

Exxon:

GE
Fin Times p15 “GE strengthens int’l push in tie up with XD electric of
China” by Ed Crooks says GE has linked up with Shanghai listed XD
electric in another alliance with a Chinese firm.  GE will pay $535 mil
for a 15% stake in the power transmitter.

Hewlett-Packard:  No mentions found.

Home Depot:  No mentions found.

Intel:  No mentions found.

IBM:  No mentions found.

JPMorgan:  No mentions found.

Johnson & Johnson:  No mentions found.

Kraft:  No mentions found.

McDonald’s:  No mentions found.

Merck:  WSJ pB3 “Roche drug to raise good cholesterol fails” by Jeanne Whalen says
Pfizer’s Torcetrapib failed in ’06 to raise HDL cholesterol.  Merck is
involved in late stage development of HDL raising compounds called CETP
inhibitors.

Microsoft:  Fin Times p16 “Microsoft adopts
internal carbon offset system” by Pilita Clark says this will help
drive greener biz decisions across its dlboal operations.

Pfizer:  
NYT pB2 “FDA staff raises concerns about arthritis drug, AJC pA12
“Arthritis drug draws concerns from FDA” say tofacitinib has serious
safety concerns and is linked to risk of lymphoma.  It is being
developed to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

WSJ pB3
“Roche drug to raise good cholesterol fails” by Jeanne Whalen says
Pfizer’s Torcetrapib failed in ’06 to raise HDL cholesterol.  Merck is
involved in late stage development of HDL raising compounds called CETP
inhibitors.

Procter & Gamble:  No mentions found.

3M:  No mentions found.

Travelers:  No mentions found.

United Technologies
WSJ pB5 “Watchdog challenged over pay benchmarks” says ISS is being
criticized on how they rate pper benchmarks.  United Technologies is one
of 25 firms that ISS says don’t have enough industry peers.  UTX says
GE, AT&T, Pfizer & Procter & Gamble are peers as
they compete for the same execs.  ISS says Exxon and Microsoft should
be peers for United Tech.

Verizon:    Inv. Bus. Daily pA2 “Mobile phone sales lagging” says Droid
Razr saw improvement via a price cut at Verizon and AT&T and Verizon
may have had it harder than Motorola and Sprint re April handset sales
in N. America.

 Fin Times p22 “AIG falls after Treasury announces part sale of its stake
at a discount” by Arash massoudi says US equities edged higher as
market watchers said investors had already priced in expectations that
pro austerity leaders in Europe would be defeated over the weekend. 
AT&T said it would enter the fast growing home automation markets
with a portfolio fo new services including remote energy and water
controls.  Verizon did the same in Oct.  Caterpillar lost 1.3%.

Walmart:  No mentions found.

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Dan Kolber: Stock Market News & Commentary: 5/5/12 Sat

May 5th, 2012
Post No. 1,609 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 and Dow 30 components’ SEC filings as of April 15, 2012.

Dow Jones Industrial AverageThe Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 13,038.27 down 168.32 or 1.27% from Thursday’s close of 13,206.59. For the week the Dow was down 190.04 or 1.44% from last Friday’s close of 13,228.31 . For the year the Dow is up 6.72%. Of the 30 Dow components all 30 declined. The biggest decliner dollar-wise was Chevron and percentage-wise was Bank of America.

Sat. WSJ pB1 “Stocks end week with thud” by Jonathan Cheng says weak jobs data roiled fin’l markets send the Dow to its biggest drop in a month & helping drag crude oil below $100 a barrel for the first time since Feb.  The morning jobs report, showing lackluster US hiring, reinforced concerns taht the US economic recovery is stalling.  Still, some worry that the economy isn’t weak enough to garner any add’l help from the Fed. Res.  Many stock inverters are concerned that elections over the weekend in Greece & France could generate more upheaval int he region.

Sat NYT pB3 “A down week, worsened by a wak jobs report” by Christine Hauser says stocks sank on Fri with the boader amrket posting its biggest weekly decline this year after a disappointing report on jobs in the US.

Inv. Bus. Daily pB6 “Market back in correction; some leaders clobbered” by Paul Whitfield says stocks careened lower Fri as the market made it clear it has gone into a correction.  Friday’s action say sharp losses in mixed trade.   The Labor Dept’s jobs data came in at 115,000 jobs below expectations for 165,000 and near the bottom of the estimate range.

MarketWatch Fri. 4:16 by Laura Mandaro says US stock closed sharply lower Friday, sending the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite to their worst weeks of the year, after lighter-than-forecast jobs growth and unease over the outcome of upcoming French and Greek elections prompted a broad selloff. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA-1.27% lost 168.32 points, or 1.3%, to 13,038.27 and sank 1.4% for the week. The S&P 500 SPX-1.61% lost 22.47 points, or 1.6%, to 1,369.10, led by tech and energy stocks. Only utilities were higher. For the week, the index lost 2.4%. The Nasdaq Composite COMP-2.25% fell 67.96 points, or 2.3%, to 2,956.34, its worst day of the year. It lost 3.7% for the week. Heavyweight Apple Inc. AAPL-2.85% fell 6.3% for the week.

Saturday’s News followed by Friday’s closing Dow numbers: :

AT&T:

Alcoa:

American Express:    Barron’s Cover Story pS3 “Barron’s 500 America’s best companies” by Jacqueline Doherty rates Intel No. 6
saying as the economy improves, firms are starting to buy PCs. 
Hewlett-Packard is the only Dow component listed on a separate list of
firms on the main list with low P/Es at 6.1 (HPQ is ranked 185. Travelers is the lowest Dow firm listed at 476. In the top 100 are IBM at 27; DuPont at 33, American Express at 52; Kraft at 72.

Bank of America:    Barron’s p18 “Week Review” says JPMorgan was at an oversight meeting
with Fed officials last week.  Bank of America said credit downgrades
could trigger demands for $6.2 bil in collateral.  BofA is under review
by Moody’s.

Barron’s p37 “CEO spotlight John Stumpf” by Lawrence Strauss says Wells Fargo is grabbing mortgage market share from Bank of America and Citigroup.  Wells trails JPMorgan, Bank of America & Citigroup in asset volume, it has the highest stock market value of the group at $176 bil.

Boeing:

Caterpillar:

Chevron:  Barron’s p26 “The right spin on Phillips” by Andrew Bary says ConocoPhillips is the US’ third largest integrated energy firm behind Exxon and Chevron.
 
Cisco:  Barron’s p19 “Week preview” says on Wed 5/9 Cisco posts results.  Also on that day an FDA panel will consider Pfizer’s drug to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

Inv. Bus. Daily pA7 “Facebook eyes big possibilities as IPO will triple its war chest” by Brian Deagon says just as IBM dominated the mainframe ear, Microsoft the PC eara, Cisco systems the networking era nd Google in search, Facebook dominates the hottest trend on the Internet but could run into antitrust and privacy issues.

Coke:  Barron’s p32 “Speaking of dividends” by Shrley Lazo says Coke raised its dividend to 51 cents from 47 cents in Feb and in Aug will distribute its first stock split in 16 years, a 2 for 1.  Coke yields 2.6%.

Disney:

DuPont:   Barron’s p26 “The right spin on Phillips” by Andrew Bary says
ConocoPhillips is the US’ third largest integrated energy firm behind
Exxon and Chevron.

Barron’s Cover Story pS3 “Barron’s 500 America’s best companies” by Jacqueline Doherty rates Intel No. 6
saying as the economy improves, firms are starting to buy PCs. 
Hewlett-Packard is the only Dow component listed on a separate list of
firms on the main list with low P/Es at 6.1 (HPQ is ranked 185. Travelers is the lowest Dow firm listed at 476. In the top 100 are IBM at 27; DuPont at 33, American Express at 52; Kraft at 72.

Exxon:   Barron’s p26 “The right spin on Phillips” by Andrew Bary says
ConocoPhillips is the US’ third largest integrated energy firm behind
Exxon and Chevron.

GE:

Hewlett-Packard:   Barron’s Cover Story pS3 “Barron’s 500 America’s best companies” by Jacqueline Doherty rates Intel No. 6
saying as the economy improves, firms are starting to buy PCs. 
Hewlett-Packard is the only Dow component listed on a separate list of
firms on the main list with low P/Es at 6.1 (HPQ is ranked 185. Travelers is the lowest Dow firm listed at 476. In the top 100 are IBM at 27; DuPont at 33, American Express at 52; Kraft at 72.

Home Depot:

Intel:  Barron’s Cover Story pS3 “Barron’s 500 America’s best companies” by Jacqueline Doherty rates Intel No. 6 saying as the economy improves, firms are starting to buy PCs.  Hewlett-Packard is the only Dow component listed on a separate list of firms on the main list with low P/Es at 6.1 (HPQ is ranked 185. Travelers is the lowest Dow firm listed at 476. In the top 100 are IBM at 27; DuPont at 33, American Express at 52; Kraft at 72.

IBM:   Barron’s Cover Story pS3 “Barron’s 500 America’s best companies” by Jacqueline Doherty rates Intel No. 6
saying as the economy improves, firms are starting to buy PCs. 
Hewlett-Packard is the only Dow component listed on a separate list of
firms on the main list with low P/Es at 6.1 (HPQ is ranked 185. Travelers is the lowest Dow firm listed at 476. In the top 100 are IBM at 27; DuPont at 33, American Express at 52; Kraft at 72.

Inv. Bus. Daily pA7 “Facebook eyes big possibilities as IPO will triple
its war chest” by Brian Deagon says just as IBM dominated the mainframe
ear, Microsoft the PC eara, Cisco systems the networking era nd Google
in search, Facebook dominates the hottest trend on the Internet but
could run into antitrust and privacy issues.

JPMorgan:  Barron’s p18 “Week Review” says JPMorgan was at an oversight meeting with Fed officials last week.  Bank of America said credit downgrades could trigger demands for $6.2 bil in collateral.  BofA is under review by Moody’s.

Barron’s p37 “CEO spotlight John Stumpf” by Lawrence Strauss says Wells
Fargo is grabbing mortgage market share from Bank of America and
Citigroup.  Wells trails JPMorgan, Bank of America & Citigroup in
asset volume, it has the highest stock market value of the group at $176
bil.

WSJ pB1 “Facebook revs up Wall St tour” by Anupreeta Das says JPMorgan is getting ready to do the Facebook IPO and will be aong 30 banks that will earn $150 mil in fees.

Johnson & Johnson:  Barron’s p21 “Rosenberg to J&J: Ditch Triple-A” by Andrew Bary says Johnson & Johnson should issue debt and buy back a lot of JNJ’s cheap stock and not worry about maintaining its triple A rating since these rates won’t be this low again.

Barron’s p28 “A drug maker finds a good match” by Johanna Bennett sas
Watson Pharmaceuticals, a global player in the generic drug industry has
benefited from the launch of generic versions of Pfizer’s Lipitor and
Johnson & Johnson’s Concerta.

Kraft:   Barron’s Cover Story pS3 “Barron’s 500 America’s best companies” by Jacqueline Doherty rates Intel No. 6
saying as the economy improves, firms are starting to buy PCs. 
Hewlett-Packard is the only Dow component listed on a separate list of
firms on the main list with low P/Es at 6.1 (HPQ is ranked 185. Travelers is the lowest Dow firm listed at 476. In the top 100 are IBM at 27; DuPont at 33, American Express at 52; Kraft at 72.

McDonald’s:

Merck:

Microsoft:  Barron’s p29 “Extra! Paid content pays off for providers” by Alex eule says Microsoft kicked off the good news Monw iths its $300 mil infusion in Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader biz.

 Inv. Bus. Daily pA7 “Facebook eyes big possibilities as IPO will triple
its war chest” by Brian Deagon says just as IBM dominated the mainframe
ear, Microsoft the PC eara, Cisco systems the networking era nd Google
in search, Facebook dominates the hottest trend on the Internet but
could run into antitrust and privacy issues.


Pfizer:  Sat. AJC pA9 “Pfizer shelves study of top nerve paid drug” says Pfizer halted its study of Lyrica, its 2nd best selling drug, as a possible treatment for nerve pain in HIV patients.

Barron’s p19 “Week preview” says on Wed 5/9 Cisco posts results.  Also
on that day an FDA panel will consider Pfizer’s drug to treat
rheumatoid arthritis.

Barron’s p28 “A drug maker finds a good match” by Johanna Bennett sas Watson Pharmaceuticals, a global player in the generic drug industry has benefited from the launch of generic versions of Pfizer’s Lipitor and Johnson & Johnson’s Concerta.

Procter & Gamble:

3M:

Travelers:   Barron’s Cover Story pS3 “Barron’s 500 America’s best companies” by Jacqueline Doherty rates Intel No. 6
saying as the economy improves, firms are starting to buy PCs. 
Hewlett-Packard is the only Dow component listed on a separate list of
firms on the main list with low P/Es at 6.1 (HPQ is ranked 185. Travelers is the lowest Dow firm listed at 476. In the top 100 are IBM at 27; DuPont at 33, American Express at 52; Kraft at 72.

United Technologies:

Verizon:

Walmart:  Sat. AJC pA8 “Pension plan sues Walmart execs” by Stephanie Clifford, NYT says the Cal. Sate Teaches’ retirement System, that owns 5.5 mil sahres of Walmart worth $300 mil sued Walmart’s board over the Mexican bribery scandal.

Friday’s Closing Dow Numbers:

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