Financial news on October 11th, 2007
Business and Financial news
Google’s billionaire founders, owners of a Boeing 767 that has been the talk of Silicon Valley, are apparently adding another unusually large private jet to their fleet: a Boeing 757. Read more..
The rise of open-source cellphone software will challenge wireless handset makers and carriers. Read more..
Murchison Metals bid as much as 986 million Australian dollars ($882 million) in stock for the Midwest Corporation to secure the right to build a port needed for its iron ore mine. The bid values Midwest at 4.70 Australian dollars a share, 34 perc... Read more..
How hard is it to get the Opera browser on my Treo? Is it worth it? Read more..
Palm creates a new smartphone by shaving a few doodads off the Treo. Read more..
The suit asserts that the company breached its duty to shareholders by mishandling product safety procedures responsible for three toy recalls during the summer. Read more..
When the Australian government wanted to create a six-star system to rate the energy efficiency of television sets, it found that most of the big plasma sets wouldn’t meet its minimum requirements. Read more..
Retailers appear to be in for a rough fall, as big chain stores today reported bleak September same-store sales. Read more..
The S.E.C. has been asked to investigate stock sales by Angelo R. Mozilo, Countrywide’s chief executive, before its shares plummeted amid the deepening mortgage crisis. Read more..
David Pogue reviews his own cellphone, the LG8700, offered by Verizon. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Intel | INTC | 25.90 | 26.18 | 25.16 | 25.43 | 91.3M |
Apple | AAPL | 169.49 | 171.88 | 153.21 | 162.23 | 58.7M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 30.31 | 30.63 | 29.79 | 29.91 | 50.8M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 33.38 | 33.60 | 32.60 | 32.80 | 45.2M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 47.35 | 47.70 | 46.72 | 46.90 | 41.1M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 22.95 | 23.00 | 22.39 | 22.46 | 35.1M |
Pfizer | PFE | 25.57 | 25.64 | 25.35 | 25.45 | 31.4M |
General Electric | GE | 41.95 | 42.09 | 41.37 | 41.60 | 29.7M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 47.01 | 47.62 | 46.53 | 46.66 | 27.9M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 53.30 | 53.62 | 52.44 | 53.36 | 23.6M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 633.64 | 641.41 | 609.00 | 622.00 | 23.6M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 93.60 | 95.07 | 91.87 | 92.66 | 20.9M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 42.00 | 42.57 | 41.50 | 41.61 | 20.5M |
Home Depot | HD | 33.70 | 34.25 | 33.22 | 33.43 | 17.1M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 36.66 | 37.00 | 35.98 | 36.32 | 16.3M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 87.08 | 87.77 | 85.00 | 85.72 | 15.2M |
Boeing | BA | 99.50 | 99.58 | 94.96 | 96.26 | 13.2M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 45.63 | 46.24 | 45.44 | 45.68 | 13.2M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 118.99 | 121.46 | 117.37 | 118.05 | 13M |
Pepsico | PEP | 73.80 | 74.10 | 70.82 | 71.77 | 12.4M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 52.48 | 52.64 | 51.16 | 51.61 | 11M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 109.10 | 111.24 | 106.66 | 108.58 | 10.5M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 65.98 | 66.23 | 65.83 | 65.95 | 10.4M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 49.54 | 49.60 | 49.20 | 49.34 | 10.1M |
Amazon | AMZN | 95.33 | 95.74 | 88.13 | 89.34 | 9.82M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 23.72 | 24.01 | 23.50 | 23.68 | 9.67M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 71.65 | 71.98 | 71.41 | 71.77 | 9.2M |
Chevron | CVX | 92.52 | 92.82 | 90.16 | 91.00 | 9.18M |
Amgen | AMGN | 57.84 | 58.31 | 57.63 | 57.83 | 8.96M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 29.91 | 29.97 | 29.39 | 29.50 | 8.46M |
McDonald's | MCD | 57.31 | 57.42 | 55.95 | 56.25 | 7.97M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 43.25 | 43.53 | 42.14 | 42.32 | 7.86M |
Altria | MO | 70.00 | 70.04 | 69.41 | 69.95 | 7.49M |
Merck | MRK | 53.08 | 53.69 | 52.78 | 53.04 | 7.45M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 58.00 | 58.18 | 56.92 | 57.19 | 6.48M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 35.50 | 35.63 | 34.90 | 35.01 | 6.11M |
United Technologies | UTX | 80.86 | 81.20 | 78.64 | 79.25 | 4.73M |
3M | MMM | 96.10 | 96.49 | 93.92 | 94.36 | 3.68M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 118.18 | 119.46 | 116.00 | 118.40 | 2.16M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 4160.00 | 4210.00 | 4154.00 | 4195.00 | 12.9K |
Exchange Rates of October 11th, 2007
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 117.300 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.009 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 0.976 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.025 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.181 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.846 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7.505 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.133 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 166.590 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.006 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.698 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.432 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.576 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.635 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.385 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.722 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.678 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.596 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.419 GBP | 1 GBP = 2.387 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.946 AUD | 1 AUD = 1.058 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.831 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.203 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.007 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.993 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.257 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.443 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.984 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.504 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2.402 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.416 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.879 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.138 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 1.064 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.940 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1.211 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.826 CAD |
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