Financial news on February 07, 2007
Business and Financial news
Prosecutors want to know whether the business development company obtained the phone records of a critic through impersonation. Read more..
The companies will allow TiVo owners who shop on Amazon’s digital download store to send films and TV shows to their broadband-connected TiVo machines. Read more..
Steven P. Jobs says that dropping digital anti-piracy protection would benefit record labels and customers. Read more..
The chief financial officer of Nortel Networks, Peter Currie, who rejoined the company in 2005 to help it recover from accounting problems, will step down on April 30. Nortel, the maker of phone equipment, said it had begun seeking a successor. Mr... Read more..
The ruling was a big setback to Wal-Mart’s efforts to block the nation’s largest sex discrimination lawsuit. Read more..
The heads of the major movie studios visited Congress to press their agenda of fighting piracy, obtaining new tax advantages and reining in movie and television production from going abroad. Read more..
Apple’s chief said record companies should allow songs to be sold online without anticopying software, in part because the technology does not stop piracy. Read more..
Toyota’s ads for its new full-size Tundra pickup emphasize horsepower and don’t mention the auto maker’s famous fuel economy or hybrid technology. Read more..
As India and the United States gradually relax policies on military collaboration between the two countries, American companies hope to compete for contracts worth billions of dollars. Read more..
Two fierce rivals will stand together in Washington and agree on a series of goals for achieving universal health coverage, according to people briefed on the matter. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 28.62 | 28.85 | 28.08 | 28.09 | 128M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 29.64 | 29.70 | 29.25 | 29.37 | 65.1M |
Intel | INTC | 21.38 | 21.67 | 21.24 | 21.51 | 57.6M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 17.11 | 17.12 | 16.85 | 16.91 | 45.2M |
Apple | AAPL | 84.48 | 86.38 | 83.55 | 86.15 | 38.1M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 37.44 | 37.61 | 36.88 | 37.16 | 34.8M |
Pfizer | PFE | 26.54 | 26.68 | 26.31 | 26.52 | 26.9M |
General Electric | GE | 36.32 | 36.35 | 36.06 | 36.10 | 21.4M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 75.40 | 75.88 | 74.53 | 74.79 | 18.1M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 66.81 | 66.94 | 65.77 | 66.23 | 13.1M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 35.35 | 35.59 | 35.20 | 35.48 | 12.2M |
Amazon | AMZN | 38.49 | 39.52 | 38.40 | 38.98 | 10.5M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 28.70 | 29.00 | 28.63 | 28.86 | 10.3M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 42.47 | 43.00 | 42.18 | 42.55 | 10.2M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 48.38 | 48.75 | 48.28 | 48.58 | 10.1M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 42.00 | 42.69 | 42.00 | 42.30 | 9.81M |
Chevron | CVX | 73.70 | 74.09 | 72.54 | 72.64 | 9.57M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 35.91 | 36.04 | 35.76 | 35.88 | 9.41M |
Merck | MRK | 44.88 | 44.89 | 43.97 | 44.26 | 8.65M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 38.08 | 38.39 | 37.95 | 38.09 | 8.5M |
Home Depot | HD | 41.20 | 41.46 | 41.02 | 41.36 | 8.35M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 473.82 | 474.35 | 468.78 | 470.01 | 8.23M |
Amgen | AMGN | 69.30 | 70.25 | 69.30 | 70.00 | 7.88M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 71.12 | 73.25 | 70.93 | 72.24 | 7.83M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 66.00 | 66.10 | 65.65 | 65.80 | 7.8M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 99.80 | 100.36 | 99.12 | 99.54 | 7.7M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 50.84 | 51.22 | 50.80 | 51.21 | 7.54M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 52.50 | 52.63 | 52.17 | 52.45 | 7.34M |
Altria | MO | 86.20 | 86.38 | 85.70 | 85.98 | 7.12M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 64.82 | 64.95 | 64.35 | 64.48 | 6.75M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 65.05 | 65.79 | 63.90 | 64.45 | 6.59M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 51.39 | 51.39 | 50.99 | 51.25 | 5.17M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 48.03 | 48.13 | 47.86 | 48.03 | 4.62M |
Pepsico | PEP | 64.40 | 64.70 | 64.22 | 64.50 | 4.32M |
3M | MMM | 74.30 | 74.99 | 74.28 | 74.65 | 4.05M |
McDonald's | MCD | 44.75 | 44.88 | 44.46 | 44.72 | 3.36M |
United Technologies | UTX | 68.41 | 68.75 | 68.08 | 68.51 | 2.88M |
Boeing | BA | 90.59 | 91.20 | 89.70 | 90.35 | 2.81M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 100.35 | 102.19 | 99.93 | 100.15 | 2.05M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 3618.00 | 3633.00 | 3614.00 | 3624.00 | 14.7K |
Exchange Rates of February 07, 2007
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 120.680 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.008 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.184 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.844 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.241 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.806 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7.748 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.129 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 157.030 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.006 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.660 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.515 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.671 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.599 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.541 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.649 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.615 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.619 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.420 GBP | 1 GBP = 2.380 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.063 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.940 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.981 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.019 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.028 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.972 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.531 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.395 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.334 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.428 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2.446 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.409 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.922 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.085 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.966 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.035 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1.048 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.954 CAD |
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