Financial news on December 6th, 2007
Business and Financial news
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The reaction against the wealth created by private equity funds has become part of a populist movement. Read more..
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of the social networking site Facebook, apologized to the site’s users about the way it introduced a controversial new advertising feature last month. Read more..
The iControl is a watch and receiver combination that connects to almost any iPod and the iPhone. Read more..
Muhtar Kent, Coke’s president and chief operating officer, will take over as chief executive on July 1, the company said today. He will succeed E. Neville Isdell, who will remain chairman. Read more..
A competition among journalism students for seed money shows that Web services like AdSense, Facebook and Ning may make it much easier to start a publication than ever before. Read more..
After a one-day meeting in Abu Dhabi, OPEC cemented the impression that it wanted to keep oil prices at levels that would have been unthinkable a few years ago, leaving its output goal unchanged. Read more..
A research note issued by Citigroup on Tuesday said 70 percent of Netflix’s return mailers must be sorted by hand. Read more..
A promising employment report lifted stocks Wednesday, with the main indexes erasing two days of declines on renewed optimism about the outlook for the economy. Read more..
A study concluded that dyslexics were more likely than nondyslexics to excel in oral communication and problem solving and to own two or more businesses. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Intel | INTC | 27,22 | 27,99 | 27,17 | 27,98 | 60.5M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 18,22 | 18,55 | 18,04 | 18,30 | 54.9M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 27,65 | 27,95 | 27,50 | 27,79 | 53.1M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 34,26 | 34,61 | 33,87 | 34,55 | 49.2M |
General Electric | GE | 36,55 | 37,29 | 36,54 | 37,26 | 35.6M |
Apple | AAPL | 186,19 | 190,10 | 186,12 | 189,95 | 32.1M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 21,10 | 21,45 | 20,94 | 21,42 | 29.5M |
Pfizer | PFE | 23,95 | 24,20 | 23,82 | 24,17 | 28.7M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 31,91 | 33,43 | 31,53 | 32,59 | 25.3M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 38,41 | 38,86 | 37,90 | 38,82 | 22.5M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 90,65 | 91,67 | 89,51 | 91,44 | 21.1M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 48,16 | 49,41 | 48,00 | 49,27 | 20.3M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 44,62 | 46,25 | 44,53 | 46,21 | 19.1M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 44,50 | 44,52 | 43,80 | 44,42 | 14.8M |
Home Depot | HD | 28,84 | 29,66 | 28,58 | 29,49 | 11.6M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 81,20 | 83,66 | 81,20 | 83,30 | 11.5M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 29,17 | 29,25 | 28,56 | 29,08 | 11.1M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 51,52 | 52,24 | 51,18 | 52,21 | 10.4M |
Merck | MRK | 59,85 | 59,95 | 59,01 | 59,50 | 9.98M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 697,80 | 716,56 | 697,01 | 715,26 | 9.81M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 58,14 | 58,30 | 57,53 | 58,15 | 9.75M |
Chevron | CVX | 89,27 | 91,70 | 88,86 | 91,38 | 9.63M |
Altria | MO | 77,54 | 77,85 | 77,27 | 77,80 | 9M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 73,69 | 74,24 | 73,49 | 74,18 | 8.47M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 32,74 | 32,89 | 32,25 | 32,72 | 7.93M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 62,90 | 63,17 | 62,38 | 63,07 | 7.91M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 68,19 | 68,37 | 67,75 | 68,30 | 7.6M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 46,72 | 47,80 | 46,25 | 47,61 | 7.09M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 54,22 | 56,00 | 54,15 | 55,98 | 6.72M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 95,77 | 99,25 | 95,36 | 98,89 | 6.53M |
McDonald's | MCD | 59,51 | 60,39 | 59,08 | 60,28 | 6.43M |
Amgen | AMGN | 54,63 | 55,19 | 53,95 | 55,15 | 6.1M |
Boeing | BA | 91,50 | 92,44 | 90,83 | 91,78 | 5.81M |
Amazon | AMZN | 93,28 | 95,00 | 92,83 | 94,21 | 5.47M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 108,00 | 110,00 | 107,93 | 109,70 | 5.32M |
United Technologies | UTX | 76,82 | 78,04 | 76,22 | 77,99 | 4.55M |
Pepsico | PEP | 76,24 | 77,17 | 76,04 | 77,03 | 3.79M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 129,25 | 134,88 | 128,96 | 134,15 | 3.32M |
3M | MMM | 83,73 | 85,00 | 83,56 | 84,82 | 2.94M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 4930,00 | 4985,00 | 4913,00 | 4951,00 | 23.4K |
Exchange Rates of December 6th, 2007
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 111,280 JPY | 1 JPY = 0,009 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1,008 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,992 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1,130 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,885 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7,414 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,135 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 162,900 JPY | 1 JPY = 0,006 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0,722 GBP | 1 GBP = 1,386 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1,665 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,601 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1,476 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,678 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1,653 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,605 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0,443 GBP | 1 GBP = 2,258 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1,022 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,979 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0,905 CAD | 1 CAD = 1,104 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1,015 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,985 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2,307 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,433 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2,045 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,489 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2,290 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,437 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0,886 CAD | 1 CAD = 1,129 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0,992 CHF | 1 CHF = 1,008 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1,120 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,893 CAD |
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