Financial news on October 07, 2010
Business and Financial news
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The actor Larry Hagman, who played J.R. Ewing in the 1980s hit series “Dallas,” has been awarded $11.6 million in a securities arbitration case against Citigroup Global Markets. Read more..
Mauricio Cohen Assor and Leon Cohen Levy were found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and filing false tax returns. Read more..
ABC News and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have entered into an unusual financial agreement to back a yearlong project investigating global health problems and their potential solutions. Read more..
Lehman Brothers faces two problems in its case that Barclays reaped undue rewards from its deal to buy up much of the failing bank when no one else would, a Bloomberg News columnist argues. Read more..
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Now, with the glitter gone, many who bought into Dubai real estate are finding it hard to get out. The collapse in property values was one cause of the recent crisis of Kabul Bank. Read more..
Getting back lost changes in a Word document, and reading the Web offline. Read more..
The Treasury Department’s program to soak up toxic mortgage assets may have unnecessarily excluded smaller, well-qualified fund managers to the detriment of taxpayers, a U.S. bailout watchdog said on Thursday. Read more..
Emerging economies should consider steps to contain fund flows that could cause currency rallies and asset bubbles, the World Bank chief was quoted as saying, but the International Monetary Fund called such actions “undesirable.” Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
General Electric | GE | 17.00 | 17.12 | 16.85 | 17.05 | 58.6M |
Intel | INTC | 19.37 | 19.54 | 19.21 | 19.40 | 51.8M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 24.62 | 24.75 | 24.28 | 24.53 | 50.1M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 27.63 | 27.89 | 27.54 | 27.69 | 40.6M |
Pfizer | PFE | 17.38 | 17.51 | 17.32 | 17.38 | 38.6M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 22.47 | 22.50 | 22.11 | 22.39 | 37.8M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 53.19 | 53.23 | 52.44 | 52.58 | 33.6M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 28.65 | 28.73 | 28.02 | 28.25 | 31.8M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 26.47 | 26.58 | 25.84 | 26.00 | 27.3M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 40.11 | 40.32 | 39.20 | 39.52 | 26.9M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 60.99 | 61.14 | 60.75 | 60.80 | 23.3M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 33.57 | 33.57 | 32.86 | 32.93 | 22.6M |
Pepsico | PEP | 66.60 | 66.70 | 65.18 | 66.10 | 20M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 63.96 | 64.00 | 63.37 | 63.85 | 19.5M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 17.85 | 18.03 | 16.91 | 17.89 | 19.4M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 40.88 | 40.98 | 40.46 | 40.81 | 19M |
Apple | AAPL | 290.34 | 290.48 | 286.91 | 289.22 | 14.6M |
Home Depot | HD | 31.84 | 32.11 | 31.59 | 31.74 | 13.2M |
Altria | MO | 24.54 | 24.70 | 24.50 | 24.57 | 12.7M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 59.99 | 60.00 | 59.15 | 59.71 | 11.2M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 63.29 | 63.50 | 63.00 | 63.22 | 9.83M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 33.78 | 33.98 | 33.68 | 33.91 | 9.03M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 63.68 | 63.68 | 62.42 | 62.99 | 7.83M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 54.66 | 54.82 | 54.04 | 54.36 | 7.77M |
Chevron | CVX | 84.42 | 84.50 | 82.94 | 83.52 | 7.71M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 59.67 | 59.68 | 59.20 | 59.44 | 7.48M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 34.39 | 34.59 | 34.11 | 34.34 | 6.88M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 137.92 | 138.88 | 137.52 | 138.72 | 6.44M |
Amgen | AMGN | 55.97 | 56.27 | 54.16 | 55.96 | 5.91M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 35.85 | 36.30 | 35.72 | 36.26 | 5.86M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 27.34 | 27.40 | 27.22 | 27.30 | 5.76M |
Boeing | BA | 68.97 | 69.14 | 67.80 | 68.46 | 5.5M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 536.21 | 537.20 | 529.14 | 530.01 | 4.79M |
Amazon | AMZN | 156.51 | 157.40 | 153.39 | 156.27 | 4.62M |
McDonald's | MCD | 75.51 | 75.99 | 75.51 | 75.86 | 4.48M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 83.83 | 83.85 | 82.58 | 83.17 | 3.37M |
3M | MMM | 89.86 | 89.92 | 88.44 | 88.90 | 3.32M |
United Technologies | UTX | 72.82 | 73.05 | 72.41 | 72.78 | 3.02M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 83.69 | 83.89 | 82.83 | 83.63 | 2.83M |
Merck | MRK | 37.29 | 37.39 | 36.64 | 36.71 | 2.79M |
Visa | V | 74.28 | 74.79 | 73.54 | 73.61 | 2.49M |
Exchange Rates of October 07, 2010
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 82.320 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.012 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.018 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.983 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 0.966 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.035 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 6.691 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.149 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 114.560 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.009 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.877 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.141 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.418 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.705 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.417 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.706 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.345 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.743 EUR |
Euro | Chinese Yuan | 1 EUR = 9.324 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.107 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.765 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.307 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.237 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.809 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.236 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.809 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.174 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.852 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.616 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.619 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.616 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.619 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 1.534 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.652 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Chinese Yuan | 1 GBP = 10.617 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.094 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.999 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.001 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.948 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.054 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 AUD = 6.577 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.152 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 0.949 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.054 CAD |
Canadian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 CAD = 6.581 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.152 CAD |
Swiss Franc | Chinese Yuan | 1 CHF = 6.929 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.144 CHF |
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