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Dear Fellow Shareholders:

2009 was an amazing year for Netflix. During the year, we added more than 2.8 million net new subscribers, continued to experience dramatic expansion and accelerating consumer adoption of our hybrid service combining streaming with DVDs by mail, and achieved strong gains in revenues and GAAP net income.

A Message from the President and CEO:

Ford Motor Company emerged from the challenging business environment of 2009 with the strongest proof yet that our ONE Ford plan is working. We reported full year 2009 net income of $2.7 billion, which was the company’s first full year of positive net income since 2005 and a $17.5 billion improvement over the previous year.

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OVERVIEW
In 2009 we delivered an outstanding performance during a year of unprecedented economic uncertainty. This performance demonstrates the success of our strategy to focus on the most profitable growth opportunities in our chosen markets around the world.

Our European Embedded Value (EEV) operating profit was up 8 per cent to £3,090 million and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) operating profit based on longer-term investment returns was up by 10 per cent to £1,405 million.

To our shareholders:

2009 was a particularly challenging year for Aetna. Like our customers and members, we experienced dynamic market forces brought on by the worst economic recession in 70 years. Driven by changes in customer preferences, employment levels and stakeholder behaviors, our ability to adapt quickly to a new reality was tested.

Fellow Shareholders:

When we reported to you last, the world’s financial system and the global economy remained in the grips of uncertainty. Our industry had been shaken to its foundation in the wake of severe volatility, a sharp deterioration in equity values and extreme illiquidity across most credit markets. Governments, regulators and market participants were forced to confront simultaneously the unwinding of several financial institutions, ensuring short-term market stability, shoring up investor confi dence and enacting measures to secure the long-term viability of the global capital markets.

TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS:

2009 was a year of unprecedented challenges as the global economy faced widespread recession leading to declines in energy investment. Amid this climate of economic uncertainty, Halliburton rose to the challenge and increased the strength of its global franchise.

To our owners

Let’s begin with what’s most important — the value we delivered this year for our customers, our communities, our country and our shareholders. We did this by doing what community-based, relationshiporiented financial providers are supposed to do. We channel the wealth of savers, who deposit their money with us, and then we lend it out to fi nance those who invest in people, businesses and construction for creating and building things that help America’s economy grow and that strengthen neighborhoods and communities.