Financial news on July 10, 2007
Business and Financial news
Limited Brands said that it had agreed to sell 75 percent of its namesake clothing chain to a buyout firm, Sun Capital Partners. Read more..
Groupe Danone, the world’s largest yogurt products company, said it planned to buy Royal Numico for 12.3 billion euros ($16.8 billion). Read more..
The Delphi Corporation said that it had terminated a $3.4 billion financing plan to bring the company out of bankruptcy protection but that it expects to sign a new deal this month. Read more..
The Delphi Corporation said that it had terminated a $3.4 billion financing plan to bring the company out of bankruptcy protection but that it expects to sign a new deal this month. Read more..
The announcement by Nielsen/NetRatings to emphasize ranking Web sites by the time users spend may prompt a change in ad deals that may ultimately make for better Web sites. But it doesn’t mean that Google is down and AOL is up, as some have said. Read more..
A new report says that pressures on fuel supplies are growing, in part, because booming Asian economies are using more fuel to power their manufacturing industries. Read more..
Aleksandr I. Medvedev, the deputy director of Gazprom, has floated the idea of allowing foreign energy companies to take an equity stake in an operating company that will develop a large offshore natural gas field in the Russian Arctic. Mr. Medved... Read more..
Royal Dutch Shell and Rosneft, the Russian state oil company, agreed to explore possibilities to work together to develop oil fields and market gasoline and other petroleum products worldwide. The deal was presented as a framework to discuss futur... Read more..
Tens of thousands of tubes of potentially toxic toothpaste from China have been seized in Spain and Italy, the European Commission said. The Italian health ministry has seized 20,000 tubes of toothpaste identified as counterfeit and is testing sam... Read more..
Microsoft reverses its slide in search share by offering a contest. The second notable development in the Web measuring front is an announcement by Nielsen/NetRatings that it will put more emphasis on reporting the time users spend on each page, rather than counting page views Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Microsoft | MSFT | 29.70 | 29.99 | 29.18 | 29.33 | 66M |
Intel | INTC | 24.78 | 25.18 | 24.75 | 24.97 | 64.9M |
Apple | AAPL | 128.88 | 134.50 | 128.81 | 132.35 | 44.8M |
Pfizer | PFE | 25.77 | 25.89 | 25.53 | 25.58 | 43.5M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 28.18 | 28.48 | 28.10 | 28.31 | 39.6M |
General Electric | GE | 38.45 | 38.49 | 37.89 | 37.90 | 39.5M |
Home Depot | HD | 40.42 | 40.83 | 40.18 | 40.25 | 34.9M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 83.85 | 86.87 | 83.35 | 84.12 | 29.5M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 20.01 | 20.15 | 19.70 | 19.72 | 29.3M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 40.33 | 40.40 | 39.48 | 39.50 | 27.4M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 86.95 | 87.97 | 86.32 | 86.50 | 26M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 28.02 | 28.08 | 27.59 | 27.60 | 22.9M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 48.30 | 48.57 | 47.46 | 47.51 | 21.9M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 35.00 | 35.00 | 34.33 | 34.44 | 21.2M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 41.75 | 41.78 | 40.46 | 40.52 | 16.8M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 48.39 | 48.39 | 47.49 | 47.58 | 16.7M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 62.72 | 62.85 | 62.12 | 62.20 | 14.3M |
Amgen | AMGN | 54.50 | 54.89 | 54.29 | 54.29 | 14.2M |
Chevron | CVX | 89.00 | 90.21 | 87.81 | 89.00 | 13.9M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 53.38 | 53.99 | 52.79 | 52.92 | 13.5M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 61.54 | 61.70 | 61.01 | 61.03 | 12.7M |
Merck | MRK | 49.02 | 49.53 | 48.60 | 48.66 | 12.3M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 45.30 | 45.56 | 44.90 | 44.94 | 12.2M |
Altria | MO | 71.56 | 71.81 | 70.39 | 70.43 | 11.5M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 34.17 | 34.59 | 33.85 | 33.89 | 11.1M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 31.41 | 31.41 | 30.89 | 30.93 | 10.5M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 87.95 | 88.57 | 86.85 | 87.27 | 9.35M |
Amazon | AMZN | 71.65 | 71.94 | 70.07 | 70.28 | 8.89M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 543.79 | 547.00 | 541.65 | 543.34 | 7.7M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 39.50 | 40.09 | 39.38 | 39.86 | 7.48M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 52.94 | 52.94 | 52.07 | 52.10 | 7.25M |
Pepsico | PEP | 66.05 | 66.55 | 65.84 | 65.87 | 7.15M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 51.75 | 52.48 | 51.47 | 51.55 | 7M |
Boeing | BA | 100.60 | 100.66 | 99.63 | 100.25 | 6.68M |
McDonald's | MCD | 50.88 | 51.11 | 50.25 | 50.34 | 6.51M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 108.55 | 109.15 | 108.25 | 108.63 | 6.21M |
United Technologies | UTX | 71.88 | 72.45 | 71.69 | 72.07 | 5.34M |
3M | MMM | 87.94 | 88.36 | 87.17 | 87.22 | 3.43M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 116.46 | 116.46 | 114.84 | 115.07 | 2.18M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 3719.00 | 3723.00 | 3693.00 | 3704.00 | 9.9K |
Exchange Rates of July 10, 2007
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 121.720 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.008 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.054 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.949 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.202 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.832 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7.581 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.132 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 167.330 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.006 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.678 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.476 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.594 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.627 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.448 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.690 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.652 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.605 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.405 GBP | 1 GBP = 2.470 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.952 AUD | 1 AUD = 1.050 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.865 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.156 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 0.987 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.013 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.352 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.425 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.137 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.468 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2.437 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.410 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.908 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.101 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 1.036 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.965 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1.140 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.877 CAD |
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