In This Issue:

•Post-Record Performances: The S&P 500 is on the verge of a new closing high. Then what?

•Intelligencer: Headlines, Highlights, and What's on Our Minds

•The Observatory: Selected actions for May 14 through May 18.

•A New Man At Number 10

•Industrious Industrials

•Small/Mid-Cap Growth Portfolio Changes: S&P added Choice Hotels, Cytyc, and Lincoln Electric to the portfolio, and removed Movado, Nucor, and Varian.

•High-Quality Capital Appreciation: Corporations, flush with cash, should drive sales at General Dynamics' Gulfstream business.

•S&P's Platinum Portfolio: This portfolio offers the best of both worlds: S&P's STARS ranking system, based on fundamental analysis, and Fair Value, S&P's proprietary quantitative model.

Some of the Companies Featured:

Abercrombie & Fitch
Best Buy
CVS
Capital One Financial
Chubb
Cisco Systems
EMC
Franklin Resources
Goldman Sachs
Home Depot
NDS Group
PMI Group
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Western Digital
Zimmer Holdings

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