Financial news on February 05, 2007
Business and Financial news
After more than 360 years, Sweden’s Post och Inrikes Tidningar, or PoIT, is going online only. Read more..
Project Panama is Yahoo’s effort to close the wide gap with Google in the race for search advertising dollars. Read more..
Conrad M. Black is scheduled to be in court this spring facing charges of criminal fraud and money laundering while also promoting his new biography on Richard M. Nixon. Read more..
Newsweek says it will provide tobacco ad-free copies of its magazine to any individual subscribers who request them. Read more..
In an experiment, the proportion of subjects choosing an all-in-one product shot up by more than a third when it was priced at a premium. Read more..
A VERY BIG DEAL On Wednesday, shareholders of Equity Office Properties Trust will vote on a takeover offer by Blackstone, which is in a bidding war with Vornado Realty Trust. Whatever deal emerges will most likely be the largest private equity buy... Read more..
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took his message that New York City is losing its edge as a global financial center to London. Read more..
The war in Iraq seemed to linger just below the surface of many of this year’s Super Bowl commercials. Read more..
A year after DreamWorks was sold to Paramount, Steven Spielberg is fighting to retain control of his company’s independence. Read more..
Sprint Nextel has named three agencies — for now — to compete for its creative account in a review that began in early January. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Microsoft | MSFT | 29.97 | 30.02 | 29.41 | 29.61 | 99.1M |
Intel | INTC | 21.22 | 21.41 | 21.17 | 21.28 | 63.4M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 27.42 | 27.67 | 27.23 | 27.51 | 61.1M |
Pfizer | PFE | 26.73 | 27.00 | 26.66 | 26.88 | 38.5M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 17.35 | 17.43 | 17.08 | 17.16 | 28.5M |
General Electric | GE | 36.27 | 36.48 | 36.20 | 36.37 | 26.2M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 38.10 | 38.10 | 37.65 | 37.79 | 26M |
Apple | AAPL | 84.30 | 85.23 | 83.94 | 83.94 | 20.7M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 75.67 | 75.88 | 75.06 | 75.67 | 18.2M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 35.79 | 35.85 | 35.66 | 35.69 | 15.5M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 477.50 | 478.00 | 466.19 | 467.16 | 14.4M |
Merck | MRK | 44.61 | 44.70 | 44.25 | 44.58 | 11.2M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 42.98 | 43.02 | 42.47 | 42.63 | 10.6M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 42.05 | 43.00 | 42.01 | 42.81 | 10M |
Amgen | AMGN | 69.44 | 70.21 | 69.05 | 69.84 | 9.18M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 38.02 | 38.13 | 37.81 | 38.09 | 9.06M |
Home Depot | HD | 40.67 | 41.23 | 40.54 | 41.03 | 9.02M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 35.40 | 35.49 | 35.15 | 35.26 | 9M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 48.50 | 48.90 | 48.42 | 48.52 | 8.68M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 67.20 | 67.77 | 66.88 | 67.04 | 8.59M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 28.53 | 28.79 | 28.43 | 28.73 | 8.44M |
Chevron | CVX | 74.05 | 74.29 | 73.46 | 73.78 | 8.43M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 99.17 | 100.44 | 98.90 | 100.38 | 8.18M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 50.81 | 51.15 | 50.54 | 50.96 | 8.08M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 66.38 | 66.60 | 66.10 | 66.30 | 7.53M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 52.40 | 52.65 | 52.18 | 52.50 | 6.99M |
Altria | MO | 86.42 | 86.99 | 86.36 | 86.88 | 6.64M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 51.95 | 52.83 | 51.86 | 52.33 | 6.47M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 65.12 | 65.42 | 64.93 | 65.15 | 6.37M |
3M | MMM | 74.08 | 74.27 | 73.70 | 73.93 | 6.35M |
Amazon | AMZN | 37.25 | 37.42 | 36.77 | 37.16 | 6.11M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 65.50 | 65.71 | 64.76 | 65.12 | 6.07M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 70.65 | 70.84 | 69.95 | 70.02 | 4.71M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 48.11 | 48.24 | 47.84 | 47.90 | 4.6M |
Pepsico | PEP | 64.88 | 65.00 | 64.44 | 64.83 | 3.65M |
United Technologies | UTX | 67.99 | 68.64 | 67.41 | 67.77 | 3.53M |
McDonald's | MCD | 44.46 | 44.71 | 44.30 | 44.53 | 3.52M |
Boeing | BA | 90.60 | 91.42 | 90.31 | 90.72 | 3.03M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 102.00 | 103.04 | 101.76 | 102.44 | 1.62M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 3641.00 | 3641.00 | 3605.00 | 3624.50 | 11.6K |
Exchange Rates of February 05, 2007
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 120.320 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.008 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.183 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.846 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.249 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.801 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7.759 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.129 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 155.560 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.006 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.659 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.517 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.666 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.600 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.529 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.654 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.614 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.620 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.424 GBP | 1 GBP = 2.361 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.071 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.934 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.982 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.018 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.038 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.964 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.528 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.396 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.318 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.431 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2.447 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.409 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.917 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.091 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.968 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.033 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1.056 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.947 CAD |
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