Financial news on September 7th, 2006
Business and Financial news
The Kellogg Company said that it would cut about 220 jobs at its factory in Manchester, England, to counter rising expenses for fuel and commodities. Eliminating the hourly and salaried positions will cost $60 million, the company said in a filing... Read more..
The Creative Zen Vision W's screen is big enough to share movies and photos with your subway seatmates. Read more..
The BlackBerry Pearl is a do-everything device that comes closer to the perfect cellphone than anything before it. Read more..
A new report suggested that the threat of higher inflation had not diminished and that it may take more monetary restraint to hold prices down. Read more..
A new initiative will deliver magazine subscriptions to college students via e-mail as a way to introduce them to a digital format that might stand up to print. Read more..
An investigator hired by the company’s board found that Merck took “reasonable steps” to research Vioxx’s health risks. Read more..
Home Depot said that federal prosecutors had requested information regarding its stock options practices. Read more..
Bertelsmann agreed to sell its music publishing business to a French rival, Vivendi, but an association of independent competitors immediately promised to challenge the deal. Read more..
Why is it that my Windows computer sometimes will not let me unplug my U.S.B. flash drive? Read more..
Legislators, regulators and the phone industry are all considering ways to clamp down on unauthorized releases of phone records like those in the Hewlett-Packard case. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 15,64 | 16,20 | 15,58 | 16,01 | 77.4M |
Intel | INTC | 19,23 | 19,50 | 19,06 | 19,22 | 76.8M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 21,53 | 21,80 | 21,18 | 21,54 | 56.1M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 25,48 | 25,70 | 25,39 | 25,43 | 51.3M |
Apple | AAPL | 70,60 | 73,48 | 70,25 | 72,80 | 45.3M |
General Electric | GE | 33,85 | 34,15 | 33,83 | 34,04 | 29.8M |
Pfizer | PFE | 27,65 | 27,70 | 27,32 | 27,45 | 26.3M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 67,00 | 68,04 | 66,85 | 67,69 | 24.4M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 45,40 | 46,04 | 45,30 | 45,54 | 16M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 61,61 | 62,15 | 60,82 | 61,52 | 14.9M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 22,64 | 22,88 | 22,60 | 22,71 | 14.3M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 35,45 | 35,75 | 35,21 | 35,42 | 12.1M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 47,70 | 47,92 | 47,50 | 47,90 | 11.8M |
Home Depot | HD | 33,90 | 34,62 | 33,75 | 34,34 | 11.6M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 58,84 | 59,13 | 57,82 | 58,50 | 11.3M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 31,57 | 31,60 | 31,13 | 31,28 | 10.4M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 35,25 | 35,44 | 35,08 | 35,31 | 9.61M |
Altria | MO | 82,75 | 82,96 | 81,86 | 82,12 | 9.18M |
Amazon | AMZN | 30,57 | 30,64 | 29,68 | 29,73 | 8.9M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 34,58 | 35,42 | 34,58 | 34,96 | 8.74M |
Chevron | CVX | 65,00 | 66,45 | 64,99 | 65,40 | 8M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 379,39 | 381,75 | 377,40 | 378,49 | 7.68M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 63,51 | 63,70 | 63,25 | 63,46 | 7.41M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 44,65 | 44,70 | 44,37 | 44,49 | 7.39M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 45,89 | 45,91 | 45,13 | 45,20 | 7.28M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 61,80 | 62,03 | 61,34 | 61,53 | 7.17M |
Merck | MRK | 41,40 | 41,45 | 40,50 | 40,64 | 6.93M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 35,04 | 35,14 | 34,57 | 34,67 | 6.72M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 29,42 | 29,69 | 29,30 | 29,49 | 6.72M |
Amgen | AMGN | 68,65 | 68,71 | 67,90 | 68,33 | 6.02M |
Boeing | BA | 74,44 | 74,44 | 72,76 | 72,87 | 4.27M |
McDonald's | MCD | 36,12 | 36,61 | 36,05 | 36,52 | 4.13M |
Pepsico | PEP | 64,31 | 64,63 | 64,10 | 64,22 | 3.96M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 79,90 | 80,38 | 79,31 | 79,40 | 3.91M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 61,73 | 62,40 | 61,43 | 61,82 | 3.73M |
3M | MMM | 71,50 | 71,70 | 70,59 | 70,59 | 3.28M |
United Technologies | UTX | 62,91 | 63,27 | 62,21 | 62,77 | 2.58M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 50,50 | 50,82 | 49,97 | 50,21 | 2.41M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 79,97 | 80,12 | 79,35 | 79,88 | 1.47M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 3195,00 | 3203,50 | 3188,00 | 3200,50 | 5.5K |
Exchange Rates of September 7th, 2006
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 116,450 JPY | 1 JPY = 0,009 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1,110 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,901 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1,243 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,805 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7,947 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,126 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 148,270 JPY | 1 JPY = 0,007 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0,679 GBP | 1 GBP = 1,474 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1,676 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,597 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1,413 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,708 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1,582 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,632 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0,458 GBP | 1 GBP = 2,186 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1,130 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,885 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0,953 CAD | 1 CAD = 1,050 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1,067 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,937 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2,470 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,405 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2,082 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,480 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2,331 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,429 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0,843 CAD | 1 CAD = 1,187 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0,943 CHF | 1 CHF = 1,060 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1,119 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,894 CAD |
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