Financial news on December 07, 2006
Business and Financial news
Why is there a discrepancy between the advertised capacity of an external hard drive and what the computer reports? Read more..
Deutsche Bank opened five mutual funds that comply with Islamic law to tap growing demand for Islamic investment products. DWS Investments, Deutsche Bank’s mutual fund business unit, introduced the five funds, which will not invest in alcohol, gam... Read more..
Home Depot, the home improvement retailer, said yesterday that an internal investigation found that for 19 years the company “routinely” backdated option grants to benefit employees and had unrecorded expenses of about $200 million related to its ... Read more..
The XtremeMac Luna is an iPod dock that doubles as a clock radio. Read more..
The networking company Cisco Systems said it expected to triple its employees in India, from the current 2,000, in three to five years. John Chambers, Cisco’s chief executive, said that half of all future growth in the work force would come from I... Read more..
Susan L. Decker, the new head of Yahoo’s advertiser and publisher group, has been charged with reducing Google’s lead in Internet advertising. Read more..
How much digital camera can you get for $300? A lot more than last year. Read more..
Sales declined 15 percent from a year earlier, to $244.9 million in the period ended Oct. 31, according to the company. Read more..
A government inquiry found pervasive problems in the monitoring of royalties for oil drilling. Read more..
As the year comes to a close, business owners across the country are faced with a similar choice: to give or not give, and if so, to whom? Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 17.62 | 17.70 | 17.32 | 17.50 | 93.1M |
Intel | INTC | 21.01 | 21.25 | 20.64 | 20.65 | 55.8M |
Pfizer | PFE | 24.98 | 24.98 | 24.72 | 24.86 | 50.9M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 28.96 | 29.07 | 28.81 | 28.85 | 46.8M |
Apple | AAPL | 90.03 | 90.50 | 86.90 | 87.04 | 35.9M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 27.20 | 27.30 | 26.88 | 26.88 | 31.4M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 76.27 | 76.70 | 75.28 | 75.71 | 27.8M |
General Electric | GE | 35.16 | 35.39 | 35.09 | 35.16 | 25.6M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 69.20 | 70.25 | 68.59 | 69.69 | 20.5M |
Home Depot | HD | 39.57 | 39.86 | 38.89 | 38.93 | 16.4M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 34.87 | 35.00 | 34.60 | 34.63 | 15.8M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 46.70 | 46.80 | 46.36 | 46.37 | 14.2M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 40.05 | 40.22 | 39.77 | 39.86 | 13.2M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 48.58 | 48.98 | 48.49 | 48.72 | 12.1M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 34.91 | 35.21 | 34.87 | 34.90 | 11.8M |
Merck | MRK | 44.91 | 44.98 | 43.84 | 43.95 | 11M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 66.25 | 66.64 | 65.95 | 66.06 | 10.4M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 49.08 | 50.25 | 49.00 | 49.49 | 10.1M |
Amgen | AMGN | 69.94 | 69.96 | 68.85 | 69.20 | 9.4M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 490.23 | 491.80 | 482.42 | 482.64 | 9.32M |
Altria | MO | 84.50 | 85.55 | 84.27 | 84.96 | 9.29M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 48.32 | 48.51 | 47.97 | 48.04 | 7.46M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 42.08 | 42.36 | 41.72 | 41.74 | 7.45M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 47.08 | 47.08 | 46.56 | 46.63 | 7.39M |
Chevron | CVX | 73.66 | 74.00 | 73.05 | 73.32 | 7.18M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 67.11 | 67.70 | 66.43 | 66.73 | 7.13M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 63.95 | 64.04 | 63.68 | 63.80 | 7M |
Amazon | AMZN | 38.93 | 39.09 | 38.05 | 38.12 | 6.62M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 34.05 | 34.35 | 34.00 | 34.14 | 6.59M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 25.45 | 25.53 | 25.13 | 25.25 | 6.06M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 35.65 | 35.80 | 35.41 | 35.49 | 5.95M |
McDonald's | MCD | 43.00 | 43.43 | 42.96 | 43.28 | 5.78M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 94.00 | 94.43 | 93.55 | 94.23 | 4.31M |
Boeing | BA | 91.30 | 91.65 | 89.75 | 90.01 | 3.78M |
Pepsico | PEP | 63.65 | 63.91 | 63.23 | 63.42 | 3.65M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 68.20 | 68.23 | 66.55 | 66.88 | 3.26M |
United Technologies | UTX | 65.19 | 65.46 | 64.61 | 64.74 | 2.67M |
3M | MMM | 79.77 | 79.97 | 79.18 | 79.56 | 2.52M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 93.78 | 94.15 | 92.88 | 93.18 | 1.34M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 3620.00 | 3633.00 | 3570.00 | 3583.00 | 15.2K |
Exchange Rates of December 07, 2006
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 115.250 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.009 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.150 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.870 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.195 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.837 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7.829 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.128 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 153.140 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.007 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.677 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.478 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.683 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.594 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.527 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.655 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.588 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.630 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.442 GBP | 1 GBP = 2.264 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.099 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.910 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.997 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.003 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.037 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.965 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.488 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.402 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.257 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.443 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2.346 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.426 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.907 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.103 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.943 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.061 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1.039 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.962 CAD |
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