Financial news on April 01, 2010
Business and Financial news
After double-digit declines in 2008 and 2009, the business jet industry is seeing a few signs of recovery. Read more..
A woman’s right insole will be affixed to ads in several women’s magazines after a successful test last June. Read more..
Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms are increasingly concerned over their public image, how it effects their treatment by regulators as well as their bottom line. Read more..
The $1.25 trillion Federal Reserve program has been credited with keeping interest rates low and slowing the fall in home prices that threatened to send the economy into an extended slump. Read more..
Toyota’s display at the New York Auto Show was a vision of normalcy as the automaker was back to its business-as-usual approach. Read more..
France’s economy minister gave the proposal, which would raise more than $1.3 billion a year, a cautious thumbs-up. Read more..
Funds of hedge funds have performed less well than the average hedge fund in all but two of the last 20 years. Read more..
Macarthur Coal said Wednesday that the offer from the U.S. company did not fully value the Australian coal miner's significant growth prospects. Read more..
President Obama set out to attract bipartisan support and increase oil production, but the plan may not do either. Read more..
Thinking about how people get fooled on April 1 is a good way to prepare for the year-round attempts by swindlers. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Microsoft | MSFT | 29.35 | 29.54 | 28.62 | 29.16 | 74.8M |
Pfizer | PFE | 17.21 | 17.28 | 16.99 | 17.08 | 69.1M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 26.20 | 26.30 | 25.66 | 25.83 | 56.2M |
Intel | INTC | 22.40 | 22.64 | 22.20 | 22.39 | 45.5M |
General Electric | GE | 18.27 | 18.40 | 18.18 | 18.33 | 45.5M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 31.40 | 31.60 | 31.13 | 31.37 | 33M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 25.78 | 25.95 | 25.20 | 25.46 | 26.6M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 45.03 | 45.31 | 44.99 | 45.18 | 23.9M |
Apple | AAPL | 237.49 | 238.73 | 232.75 | 235.97 | 21.5M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 26.05 | 26.21 | 25.91 | 26.11 | 20.6M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 67.27 | 67.80 | 67.19 | 67.61 | 19.6M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 18.82 | 19.04 | 18.62 | 18.86 | 19.4M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 31.25 | 31.44 | 31.13 | 31.28 | 18.4M |
Altria | MO | 20.54 | 20.84 | 20.54 | 20.83 | 16.3M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 35.07 | 35.59 | 35.01 | 35.55 | 14.6M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 52.80 | 52.97 | 52.58 | 52.96 | 12.9M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 51.60 | 52.09 | 51.50 | 52.02 | 11.9M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 55.75 | 55.85 | 55.17 | 55.49 | 11.8M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 26.77 | 27.01 | 26.77 | 26.95 | 11.5M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 64.24 | 64.87 | 63.97 | 64.57 | 11.2M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 53.39 | 53.75 | 52.93 | 53.24 | 10.7M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 65.37 | 65.77 | 65.24 | 65.77 | 10.6M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 63.47 | 63.70 | 63.20 | 63.36 | 10.6M |
Merck | MRK | 37.64 | 37.88 | 37.50 | 37.71 | 10.1M |
Home Depot | HD | 32.41 | 32.63 | 32.16 | 32.38 | 9.43M |
Amazon | AMZN | 135.80 | 136.51 | 131.18 | 131.81 | 8.79M |
Chevron | CVX | 76.40 | 77.13 | 76.34 | 76.69 | 7.86M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 55.36 | 55.43 | 55.13 | 55.30 | 7.17M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 32.80 | 32.99 | 32.52 | 32.99 | 6.71M |
Amgen | AMGN | 59.95 | 60.94 | 59.95 | 60.80 | 5.92M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 45.52 | 46.02 | 45.28 | 45.64 | 5.59M |
McDonald's | MCD | 67.06 | 67.71 | 67.06 | 67.58 | 5.47M |
Pepsico | PEP | 66.32 | 66.68 | 66.25 | 66.68 | 5.07M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 128.95 | 129.31 | 127.55 | 128.25 | 4.98M |
Boeing | BA | 73.24 | 73.51 | 72.30 | 72.99 | 4.41M |
Visa | V | 91.68 | 92.58 | 91.31 | 92.55 | 4.37M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 571.35 | 573.45 | 565.55 | 568.80 | 4.2M |
United Technologies | UTX | 73.87 | 74.48 | 73.54 | 74.13 | 3.46M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 81.60 | 81.95 | 81.03 | 81.65 | 3.21M |
3M | MMM | 83.87 | 84.23 | 83.40 | 83.85 | 2.97M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 73.65 | 74.23 | 73.04 | 73.65 | 2.59M |
Exchange Rates of April 01, 2010
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 93.870 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.011 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.009 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.991 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.056 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.947 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 6.827 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.146 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 127.360 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.008 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.888 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.126 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.474 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.678 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.369 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.731 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.432 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.698 EUR |
Euro | Chinese Yuan | 1 EUR = 9.261 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.108 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.696 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.436 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.157 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.865 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.074 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.931 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.123 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.891 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.660 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.602 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.541 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.649 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 1.612 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.620 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Chinese Yuan | 1 GBP = 10.417 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.096 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.928 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.077 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.971 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.030 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 AUD = 6.285 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.159 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1.046 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.956 CAD |
Canadian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 CAD = 6.768 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.148 CAD |
Swiss Franc | Chinese Yuan | 1 CHF = 6.467 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.155 CHF |
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