Here are the top stocks, with a market cap greater than $10 billion, that hit 52-week highs in today’s trading:

1. AT&T, Inc. (NYSE:T): Up 0.23% to $30.54. AT&T Inc. is a communications holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides local and long-distance phone service, wireless and data communications, Internet access and messaging, IP-based and satellite television, security services, telecommunications equipment, and directory advertising and publishing.
2. China Telecom Corp. Ltd. (NYSE:CHA): Down 0.14% to $64.14. China Telecom Corporation Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides wireline telephone, data, and Internet, as well as leased line services in China.
3. United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX): Down 0.35% to $85.36. United Technologies Corporation provides technology products and support services to customers in the aerospace and building industries worldwide. The Company’s products include aircraft engines, elevators and escalators, heating and air conditioning equipment, helicopters, aerospace systems, fuel cell systems, and fire and safety equipment.
4. Westpac Banking Corporation (NYSE:WBK): Down 0.24% to $127.23. Westpac Banking Corporation offers general and savings banking, including lending, deposit taking and payment services. Westpac also provides investment portfolio management and advice, unit trust and superannuation fund management, nominee and custodian facilities, insurance services, consumer finance, leasing, general finance, foreign exchange dealing and money market services.
5. SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE:GLD): Up 0.09% to $142.51. SPDR Gold Trust is an investment fund incorporated in the USA. The investment objective of the Trust is for the Shares to reflect the performance of the price of gold bullion, less the Trust’s expenses. The Trust holds gold and is expected from time to time to issue Baskets in exchange for deposits of gold and to distribute gold in connection with redemptions of Baskets.
6. Unitedhealth Group, Inc. (NYSE:UNH): Down 1.18% to $44.43. UnitedHealth Group Incorporated owns and manages organized health systems in the United States and internationally. The Company provides employers products and resources to plan and administer employee benefit programs. UnitedHealth also serves the health needs of older Americans, provides specialized care services, and provides health care information and research to providers and payers.
7. LM Ericsson Telephone Co. (NASDAQ:ERIC): Up 1% to $13.17. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson develops and manufactures products for wired and mobile communications in public and private networks. The Company produces mobile telephones through its Sony Ericsson joint venture. Ericsson manufactures and installs wired and wireless communications systems, wireless microwave links, call center equipment, microelectronics, and radar systems.
8. Sasol Ltd. (NYSE:SSL): Down 0.88% to $59.66. Sasol is an integrated oil and gas company with substantial chemical interests, with production facilities located in South Africa, Europe, North America and Asia. The Company operates commercial scale facilities to produce fuels and chemicals from coal in South Africa, and is developing ventures internationally to convert natural gas into clean diesel fuel.
9. Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST): Up 3.77% to $77.82. Costco Wholesale Corporation operates wholesale membership warehouses in multiple countries. The Company sells all kinds of food, automotive supplies, toys, hardware, sporting goods, jewelry, electronics, apparel, health and beauty aids, as well as other goods.
10. National Grid plc (NYSE:NGG): Down 0.14% to $48.41. National Grid PLC owns, operates and develops electricity and gas networks. The Group’s electricity transmission and gas distribution networks are located throughout the United Kingdom and in the north-eastern section of the United States. They also own liquefied natural gas storage facilities in Britain and provide infrastructure services to the mobile telecom industry.
11. WisdomTree MidCap Earnings (NYSE:EZM): Down 0.38% to $59.69. WisdomTree MidCap Earnings Fund is an exchange-traded fund incorporated in the USA. The Fund seeks to track the price and yield performance of the WisdomTree MidCap Earnings Index, which tracks earnings-generating companies within the mid-capitalization segment of the U.S. stock market.
12. Southern Company (NYSE:SO): Up 0.1% to $38.71. Southern Company is a public utility holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, generates, wholesales, and retails electricity in the southeastern United States. The Company also offers wireless telecommunications services, and provides businesses with two-way radio, telephone, paging, and Internet access services as well as wholesales fiber optic solutions.
13. Prudential plc (NYSE:PUK): Down 0.66% to $24.00. Prudential plc is an international company which provides a wide assortment of insurance and investment products and services. Insurance products include life, accident and health, property and casualty insurance, as well as fixed and variable annuities. Financial and investment services include personal and group pensions, equity plans, mortgages and deposit accounts.
14. Yanzhou Coal Mining Co. Ltd. (NYSE:YZC): Up 3.41% to $39.13. Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited operates underground mining and coal preparation and operation businesses. Its products are sold in domestic and international markets. The Company also provides railway transportation services.
15. Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADP): Up 0.3% to $52.93. Automatic Data Processing, Inc. is a global provider of business outsourcing solutions. The Company’s services include a wide range of human resource, payroll, tax and benefits administration solutions. Automatic Data also provides solutions to auto, truck, motorcycle, marine and recreational vehicle dealers.
16. Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGAA (NYSE:FMS): Up 0.38% to $70.66. Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA offers kidney dialysis services and manufactures and distributes equipment and products used in the treatment of dialysis patients. The Company also offers clinical laboratory testing and diagnostic testing services and provides home infusion, respiratory therapy, ultrasound, and echo-cardiography. Fresenius operates worldwide.
17. The TJX Companies, Inc. (NYSE:TJX): Down 0.83% to $51.12. The TJX Companies, Inc. is an off-price apparel and home fashion retailer in the United States and worldwide. The Company operates off-price retail concepts in the U.S., Canada and Europe that offer a wide range of brand name and designer merchandise.
18. Aon Corporation (NYSE:AON): Up 0.97% to $54.17. Aon Corporation is an insurance services holding company. The Company is comprised of risk and insurance brokerage consulting. Aon’s services include helping manage risk for clients, negotiating and placing insurance risk with other carriers, and advicing clients related to health and benefits, retirement, compensation, strategic human capital, and human resource outsourcing.
19. Telefonos de Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE:TMX): Down 1.54% to $18.60. Telefonos de Mexico SAB de CV (Telmex) provides local and long-distance telephone services, and Internet and broadband access, throughout Mexico. The Company also offers other telecommunications and related services such as directory assistance, data transmission, and paging.
20. Vivo Participacoes S.A. (NYSE:VIV): Up 3.15% to $40.61. Vivo Participacoes S.A. provides mobile telecommunication services, cellular phone data transmission and mobile internet services throughout Brazil.
21. TELUS Corporation (NYSE:TU): Down 0.12% to $49.65. Telus Corporation is a telecommunications company providing a variety of communications products and services. The Company provides voice, data, Internet, and wireless services to businesses and consumers in Canada.
22. Ingersoll-Rand Plc (NYSE:IR): Up 1.25% to $48.42. Ingersoll-Rand PLC is a diversified, global company that provides a diverse range of products and services for a wide range of industries. The Company’s operations include consist of air conditioning systems and services, climate control technologies, industrial technologies and security technologies.
23. Williams Partners L.P. (NYSE:WPZ): Up 1.34% to $53.00. Williams Partners LP is a master limited partnership that owns natural gas gathering, transportation, processing and treating assets.
24. Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. (NASDAQ:BBBY): Up 10.45% to $54.55. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. operates a nationwide chain of retail stores. The Company, through its retail stores, sells a wide assortment of merchandise principally including domestics merchandise and home furnishings as well as food, giftware, health and beauty care items and infant and toddler merchandise.
25. Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo S.A. – TELESP (NYSE:TSP): Up 2.21% to $26.34. Telesp – Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo S.A. provides local telecommunication services to the Brazilian State of Sao Paulo. The Company provides voice, data and video telecommunication services to consumers, businesses and government entities.
26. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP): Down 0.31% to $51.62. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. develops, markets and supports a range of software and hardware products and services for information technology (NYSE:IT) security and offers its customers a network and gateway security solutions, data and endpoint security solutions and management solutions.
27. Limited Brands, Inc. (NYSE:LTD): Up 1.62% to $35.80. Limited Brands, Inc. owns and operates specialty stores throughout the United States. The Company, through its retail stores, offer a wide range of products, including women’s apparel, women’s lingerie, beauty products and accessories, personal care, and home fragrance products. The Company’s stores also offer products via the Internet.
28. NYSE Euronext, Inc. (NYSE:NYX): Down 0.73% to $39.52. NYSE Euronext operates an international stock exchange. The Company operates a marketplace for equities and derivatives in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Portugal, derivatives in the United Kingdom, and equities and other securities in the United States.
29. Nordstrom Inc. (NYSE:JWN): Up 1.55% to $46.61. Nordstrom, Inc. is a fashion retailer of apparel, shoes, and accessories for men, women, and children. The Company operates through multiple retail channels, discount stores, boutiques, catalogs, and on the Internet. Nordstrom, Inc. also offers, through a subsidiary, private label card credit and debit cards.
30. Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE:FIS): Down 0.03% to $33.19. Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. is a payment services provider. The Company provides credit and debit card processing, electronic banking services, check risk management, check cashing, and merchant card processing services to financial institutions and merchants.

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