Financial news on September 1st, 2006
Business and Financial news
Canadian Gold Companies Merge Into Giant
Goldcorp and Glamis Gold agreed to a friendly merger worth about $21.3 billion. Read more..
For New Lawyers, the Going Rate Has Gone Up
The going rate for a first-year associate in New York is now $145,000, and that news has traveled fast. Read more..
If Boomers Have It All, What’s Left?
Baby boomers may be known as the generation that took it all, leaving their successors to take on the risks they did not have to accept for themselves. Read more..
Panel Plans to Make Cities Reveal More on Pensions
The project is aimed at improving cities’ disclosure of information about pension funds for municipal employees. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
| Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
| Intel | INTC | 19.90 | 19.95 | 19.55 | 19.88 | 68.3M |
| Cisco Systems | CSCO | 22.05 | 22.35 | 21.85 | 22.27 | 67.3M |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 22.88 | 23.06 | 22.60 | 22.95 | 31.6M |
| Microsoft | MSFT | 25.89 | 25.97 | 25.64 | 25.84 | 31.6M |
| Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 15.80 | 15.83 | 15.45 | 15.50 | 24.6M |
| Pfizer | PFE | 27.79 | 27.97 | 27.58 | 27.96 | 23.5M |
| General Electric | GE | 34.18 | 34.27 | 34.02 | 34.14 | 19.7M |
| ExxonMobil | XOM | 67.85 | 68.44 | 67.37 | 68.10 | 17.6M |
| Apple | AAPL | 68.48 | 68.65 | 67.82 | 68.38 | 14.6M |
| AT&T Inc. | T | 31.33 | 31.82 | 31.25 | 31.61 | 12.1M |
| Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 45.00 | 45.80 | 44.02 | 45.45 | 11.4M |
| Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 48.80 | 48.80 | 48.08 | 48.37 | 9.61M |
| Home Depot | HD | 34.30 | 34.87 | 34.18 | 34.49 | 9.14M |
| Verizon Communications | VZ | 35.43 | 35.75 | 35.33 | 35.57 | 7.85M |
| HP Inc. | HPQ | 36.65 | 36.73 | 36.41 | 36.53 | 7.34M |
| McDonald's | MCD | 36.25 | 36.80 | 36.01 | 36.76 | 6.93M |
| ConocoPhillips | COP | 64.00 | 64.25 | 63.45 | 64.24 | 6.92M |
| JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 45.85 | 45.90 | 45.32 | 45.73 | 6.7M |
| Amazon | AMZN | 30.85 | 31.80 | 30.85 | 31.76 | 6.56M |
| Chevron | CVX | 64.72 | 64.90 | 64.29 | 64.83 | 6.28M |
| Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 34.88 | 34.90 | 34.64 | 34.82 | 6.15M |
| Schlumberger | SLB | 61.70 | 62.00 | 60.86 | 61.84 | 6.06M |
| Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 29.82 | 30.00 | 29.65 | 29.89 | 6.01M |
| Merck | MRK | 40.52 | 41.03 | 40.36 | 40.96 | 5.72M |
| Alphabet | GOOGL | 381.00 | 381.28 | 377.19 | 378.60 | 5.34M |
| Comcast | CMCSA | 35.33 | 35.45 | 34.69 | 35.26 | 5.13M |
| Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 64.87 | 64.89 | 64.58 | 64.72 | 4.69M |
| UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 51.95 | 52.02 | 51.33 | 51.80 | 4.31M |
| Altria | MO | 84.02 | 84.17 | 83.60 | 83.81 | 4.24M |
| Procter & Gamble | PG | 61.99 | 62.09 | 61.75 | 61.91 | 4.13M |
| Coca-Cola | KO | 44.98 | 45.13 | 44.87 | 45.07 | 3.93M |
| Amgen | AMGN | 68.21 | 68.93 | 67.99 | 68.39 | 3.62M |
| International Business Machines | IBM | 81.13 | 81.57 | 80.81 | 81.41 | 3.29M |
| Boeing | BA | 75.00 | 75.91 | 74.46 | 75.43 | 3.28M |
| United Technologies | UTX | 63.00 | 63.48 | 62.69 | 63.26 | 2.8M |
| Pepsico | PEP | 65.72 | 65.75 | 65.19 | 65.41 | 2.73M |
| 3M | MMM | 71.74 | 72.32 | 71.65 | 71.72 | 2.49M |
| Gilead Sciences | GILD | 63.64 | 64.09 | 63.09 | 63.33 | 1.97M |
| Union Pacific | UNP | 80.50 | 80.75 | 79.87 | 80.54 | 1.16M |
| Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 3193.00 | 3200.00 | 3186.00 | 3195.00 | 11.7K |
Exchange Rates of September 1st, 2006
| Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
| US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 117.090 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.009 USD |
| US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.104 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.906 USD |
| US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.230 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.813 USD |
| US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7.953 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.126 USD |
| Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 150.290 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.007 EUR |
| Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.673 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.486 EUR |
| Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.673 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.598 EUR |
| Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.417 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.706 EUR |
| Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.579 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.633 EUR |
| Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.448 GBP | 1 GBP = 2.235 JPY |
| Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.113 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.899 JPY |
| Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.942 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.061 JPY |
| Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.050 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.952 JPY |
| Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.486 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.402 GBP |
| Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.105 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.475 GBP |
| Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2.345 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.426 GBP |
| Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.846 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.181 AUD |
| Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.943 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.060 AUD |
| Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1.114 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.898 CAD |
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