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

1. BCE, Inc. (NYSE:BCE): Down 0.03% to $37.09. BCE Inc., provides a full range of communication services to residential and business customers in Canada. The Company’s services includes local, long distance and wireless phone services, high speed and wireless Internet access, IP-broadband services, value-added business solutions and direct-to-home satellite and VDSL television services.
2. The Travelers Companies, Inc. (NYSE:TRV): Up 1.41% to $60.42. The Travelers Companies, Inc. provides commercial property casualty insurance and asset management services to businesses, government units, associations and individuals. The Company underwrites homeowners and auto insurance through independent agents.
3. Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE:TWC): Down 0.07% to $72.80. Time Warner Cable Inc. offers cable television subscription services. The Company also offers Internet access and voice over Internet protocol telephone services. Time Warner Starts Media Revolution with This Big Change>>
4. BT Group plc (NYSE:BT): Down 0.19% to $31.37. BT Group plc provides telecommunications services. The Company provides local and long-distance telephone call products and services in the UK, international telephone calls to and from the UK, broadband network solutions and web hosting to corporate customers, network ADSL, ISDN, and IP services to communication companies and narrowband and broadband internet access and related services.
5. Tyco International Ltd. (NYSE:TYC): Up 3.33% to $48.72. Tyco International Ltd. provides security products and services, fire protection and detection products and services, valves and controls, and other industrial products.
6. Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGAA (NYSE:FMS): Up 0.46% to $71.51. 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.
7. Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE:RAI): Up 1.01% to $36.07. Reynolds American Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures tobacco and smokeless tobacco products. The Company’s subsidiary sells its products in the United States and its territories.
8. Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ:BIIB): Up 7.18% to $78.55. Biogen Idec Inc. develops, manufactures, and commercializes therapies, focusing on neurology, oncology, and immunology. The Company’s products addresses diseases such as multiple sclerosis, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, rheumatoid arthritis, crohn’s disease, and psoriasis.
9. The Chubb Corporation (NYSE:CB): Up 0.18% to $62.23. The Chubb Corporation, a holding company, offers property and casualty insurance, which includes personal, standard commercial and specialty commercial insurance. The Company provides insurance coverage principally in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and parts of Latin America and Asia.
10. Shire plc (NASDAQ:SHPGY): Up 1.4% to $90.45. Shire PLC markets, licenses and develops prescription medicines. The Group focuses its operations on attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders, human genetic therapies, gastrointestinal, and renal diseases.
11. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (NYSE:VRX): Down 1.5% to $53.24. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. develops and distributes drugs. The Company develops drugs for unmet medical needs in central nervous system disorders; and distributes generic and branded generic drugs in Latin America and Eastern Europe.
12. Williams Partners L.P. (NYSE:WPZ): Down 0.15% to $52.73. Williams Partners LP is a master limited partnership that owns natural gas gathering, transportation, processing and treating assets.
13. The Kroger Co. (NYSE:KR): Up 0.96% to $24.23. The Kroger Co. operates supermarkets and convenience stores in the United States. The Company also manufactures and processes some of the foods that its supermarkets sell.
14. Lorillard, Inc. (NYSE:LO): Up 0.48% to $96.71. Lorillard, Inc. manufactures and sells cigarettes. The Company produces cigarettes for both the premium and discount segments of the domestic cigarette market for sale to distributors and retailers in the United States.
15. Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo S.A. – TELESP (NYSE:TSP): Up 1.38% to $26.49. 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.
16. Hershey Co. (NYSE:HSY): Up 0.7% to $56.10. The Hershey Company manufactures chocolate and sugar confectionery products. The Company’s principal products include confectionery and snack products; gum and mint refreshment products; and food and beverage enhancers such as baking ingredients, toppings and beverages.
17. iShares Silver Trust (NYSE:SLV): Down 1.63% to $39.21. iShares Silver Trust is a trust formed to invest in silver. The assets of the trust consist primarily of silver held by the custodian on behalf of the trust. The objective of the trust is for the shares to reflect the price of silver owned by the trust, less the trust’s expenses and liabilities.
18. Limited Brands, Inc. (NYSE:LTD): Up 0.75% to $37.45. 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.
19. Braskem S.A. (NYSE:BAK): Up 0.66% to $29.10. Braskem S.A. produces petrochemicals and generates electricity. The Company produces ethylene, propylene, benzene, toluene, xylenes, butadiene, butene, isoprene, dicyclopentediene, MTBE, caprolactam, ammonium sulfate, cyclohexene, polyethylene theraphtalat, polyethylene, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC).
20. TIM Participacoes S.A. (NYSE:TSU): Up 0.02% to $45.99. Tim Participacoes S.A. provides mobile telecommunications services, cellular phone data transmission and mobile internet services through its mobile operators throughout Brazil.

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