Financial news on February 06, 2012
Business and Financial news
Sun Media Group is joining Harvest Fund Management to create Harvest Seven Stars Media Private Equity, an $800 million fund which will back entertainment ventures in China and abroad. Read more..
Potential support from California and New York would come in exchange for tightening provisions in order to preserve the right to investigate past misdeeds by the banks, and stepping up oversight. Read more..
The cuts are part of new austerity measures that Athens must agree on to secure rescue funds from international lenders. Read more..
Men in suits, recoiling as if punched by unseen fists. It’s part of a campaign for Garp, a nonprofit group that encourages professionals to take the organization’s exams to become certified as financial risk managers. Read more..
NBC is estimated to have spent as much as $25 million promoting Smash, a new series that the network hopes will be the hit it desperately needs; while NBC would welcome much-better-than average ratings, the network has made efforts to tamp down expectations. Read more..
Web sites, newspapers and other news organizations are gearing up to produce hours of video programming, in part to pursue the higher revenues available from video ads; The Wall Street Journal already produces about four hours of live programming each weekday, with plans for more hours in 2012; The New York Times Web site has begun running a morning business newscast, which joins its taped daily show TimesCast. Read more..
Mr. Cohen was president of the Hudson County News Company, a newspaper distributorship, when it went into the retail field in the mid-1970s by taking over a newsstand at the Newark airport. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
General Electric | GE | 18.99 | 19.15 | 18.95 | 19.05 | 42.7M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 20.04 | 20.20 | 19.92 | 20.19 | 37.1M |
Intel | INTC | 26.55 | 26.73 | 26.36 | 26.72 | 36.8M |
Pfizer | PFE | 21.13 | 21.18 | 20.87 | 20.95 | 32.1M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 30.04 | 30.22 | 29.97 | 30.20 | 28M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 29.83 | 29.98 | 29.69 | 29.97 | 23.6M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 30.41 | 30.51 | 30.08 | 30.20 | 23.3M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 38.06 | 38.32 | 37.81 | 38.14 | 23.1M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 54.30 | 56.50 | 54.24 | 56.03 | 18.9M |
General Motors | GM | 26.47 | 26.83 | 25.95 | 26.70 | 17.3M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 54.74 | 55.45 | 54.67 | 55.39 | 16.9M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 29.03 | 29.07 | 28.81 | 29.00 | 16.6M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 84.87 | 85.85 | 84.49 | 85.75 | 15M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 37.82 | 38.19 | 37.82 | 38.14 | 14.9M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 27.09 | 27.18 | 26.94 | 27.09 | 12.9M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 28.98 | 29.11 | 28.74 | 28.76 | 12.8M |
Altria | MO | 28.82 | 28.86 | 28.53 | 28.64 | 12.7M |
Amgen | AMGN | 68.65 | 69.15 | 67.28 | 69.12 | 11.9M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 40.00 | 40.59 | 39.96 | 40.46 | 11.5M |
Merck | MRK | 38.21 | 38.40 | 38.13 | 38.40 | 11M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 62.86 | 63.61 | 62.78 | 63.51 | 9.85M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 65.46 | 65.58 | 65.05 | 65.19 | 9.54M |
Apple | AAPL | 458.38 | 464.98 | 458.20 | 463.97 | 8.91M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 70.24 | 71.36 | 70.20 | 71.32 | 8.89M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 50.98 | 51.40 | 50.68 | 51.29 | 8.58M |
Home Depot | HD | 45.05 | 45.28 | 44.99 | 45.20 | 8.09M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 595.01 | 610.83 | 594.01 | 609.09 | 7.35M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 67.84 | 68.23 | 67.70 | 68.03 | 7.29M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 32.23 | 32.38 | 32.09 | 32.13 | 6.61M |
Chevron | CVX | 104.62 | 106.76 | 104.37 | 106.67 | 6.44M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 61.85 | 61.98 | 61.70 | 61.88 | 5.48M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 78.20 | 79.74 | 77.75 | 79.64 | 5.36M |
Amazon | AMZN | 186.28 | 186.56 | 182.92 | 183.14 | 5.31M |
Pepsico | PEP | 66.42 | 66.76 | 66.13 | 66.52 | 4.92M |
Boeing | BA | 75.26 | 75.55 | 75.16 | 75.46 | 4.16M |
United Technologies | UTX | 80.50 | 80.81 | 80.12 | 80.57 | 3.85M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 192.48 | 193.76 | 192.00 | 192.82 | 3.64M |
McDonald's | MCD | 99.96 | 100.00 | 99.34 | 99.49 | 3.49M |
Visa | V | 106.94 | 108.27 | 106.80 | 107.36 | 3.34M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 79.50 | 79.93 | 79.44 | 79.85 | 3.21M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 115.91 | 116.11 | 114.37 | 115.05 | 2.19M |
3M | MMM | 87.15 | 87.94 | 87.15 | 87.56 | 2.19M |
Exchange Rates of February 06, 2012
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 76.540 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.013 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 0.996 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.004 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 0.919 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.089 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 6.312 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.158 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 100.500 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.010 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.830 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.205 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.224 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.817 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.307 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.765 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.206 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.829 EUR |
Euro | Chinese Yuan | 1 EUR = 8.278 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.121 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.825 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.212 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.217 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.822 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.300 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.769 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.200 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.833 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.475 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.678 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.576 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.635 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 1.453 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.688 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Chinese Yuan | 1 GBP = 9.975 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.100 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 1.068 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.936 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.985 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.015 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 AUD = 6.763 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.148 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 0.922 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.084 CAD |
Canadian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 CAD = 6.332 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.158 CAD |
Swiss Franc | Chinese Yuan | 1 CHF = 6.861 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.146 CHF |
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