Financial news on April 12, 2010
Business and Financial news
Client assignments, executive appointments and other developments in the advertising business. Read more..
DynCorp International, the private military contractor, said on Monday it has agreed to sell itself to Cerberus Capital Management for $1.5 billion, as the private equity industry continues to return to its core business of deal-making. Read more..
The Federal Reserve Board on Monday named William B. English as director of its division of monetary affairs, one of the most powerful staff positions at the central bank. Read more..
The site, which allows children to play elaborate online games, has taken two years to develop and is centered on the movie “Kung Fu Panda.” Read more..
MasterCard said on Monday that it has named Ajay Banga as its next chief executive and a new board member, effective July 1. Read more..
James P. Gorman says he is not satisfied with the firm’s financial results for last year, which included a loss of 93 cents a share. Read more..
A pre-emptive look at the debt and deficit situation of the United States. Read more..
About half of newspaper and broadcast news editors believe that their employers will go out of business if they do not find new sources of revenue, according to a survey. Read more..
Peter J. Henning of White Collar Watch looks at the 50-year jail term given to a white-collar defendant convicted of a $3.7 billion fraud and finds that such harsh sentences are becoming the norm. Read more..
The Tribune Company filed its bankruptcy reorganization plan on Monday, setting the newspaper publisher up for a showdown with a large group of lenders that called the terms unfair and demanded the right to propose a rival plan. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
General Electric | GE | 18.56 | 18.98 | 18.54 | 18.71 | 71.7M |
Intel | INTC | 22.69 | 22.73 | 22.44 | 22.54 | 49.4M |
Pfizer | PFE | 17.32 | 17.33 | 17.19 | 17.29 | 49.2M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 30.25 | 30.49 | 30.21 | 30.32 | 37.1M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 26.57 | 26.74 | 26.49 | 26.53 | 28.4M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 32.40 | 32.70 | 32.27 | 32.42 | 25.1M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 26.06 | 26.28 | 25.85 | 26.20 | 24.8M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 46.03 | 46.47 | 45.90 | 46.14 | 24.6M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 26.57 | 26.67 | 26.34 | 26.38 | 22.9M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 30.05 | 30.20 | 29.90 | 29.94 | 19.6M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 55.41 | 56.17 | 55.26 | 55.96 | 18.6M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 68.80 | 69.05 | 68.58 | 68.71 | 18.2M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 52.73 | 52.73 | 52.73 | 52.73 | 13.5M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 18.51 | 18.72 | 18.45 | 18.63 | 12.5M |
Home Depot | HD | 33.22 | 33.57 | 33.14 | 33.48 | 12.3M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 55.02 | 55.10 | 54.58 | 55.02 | 12M |
Apple | AAPL | 242.20 | 243.07 | 241.81 | 242.29 | 11.9M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 26.25 | 26.40 | 26.15 | 26.29 | 10.9M |
Merck | MRK | 36.96 | 37.09 | 36.80 | 36.85 | 10.7M |
Altria | MO | 20.96 | 21.20 | 20.94 | 21.10 | 10.6M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 36.14 | 36.33 | 35.80 | 35.89 | 10.4M |
Chevron | CVX | 79.50 | 80.80 | 79.37 | 80.43 | 10M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 62.45 | 62.98 | 62.41 | 62.70 | 9.16M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 32.18 | 32.38 | 32.01 | 32.26 | 8.76M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 65.11 | 65.21 | 64.93 | 65.11 | 8.69M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 54.65 | 54.86 | 54.51 | 54.76 | 8.47M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 53.79 | 54.00 | 53.77 | 53.88 | 8.45M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 45.81 | 46.11 | 45.70 | 45.87 | 6.4M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 66.20 | 66.84 | 66.15 | 66.31 | 5.93M |
Amgen | AMGN | 60.66 | 60.90 | 60.17 | 60.37 | 5.59M |
Amazon | AMZN | 140.00 | 142.92 | 139.68 | 141.20 | 5.45M |
Pepsico | PEP | 66.35 | 66.67 | 66.26 | 66.32 | 5.07M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 567.35 | 574.00 | 566.22 | 572.73 | 4.7M |
McDonald's | MCD | 68.77 | 68.85 | 68.37 | 68.53 | 4.02M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 128.57 | 128.96 | 128.24 | 128.36 | 3.99M |
United Technologies | UTX | 74.36 | 74.36 | 73.59 | 73.76 | 3.79M |
Boeing | BA | 72.15 | 72.57 | 71.80 | 71.92 | 3.67M |
3M | MMM | 83.76 | 83.76 | 83.09 | 83.28 | 2.63M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 80.80 | 81.09 | 80.13 | 80.48 | 2.34M |
Visa | V | 93.05 | 93.49 | 92.50 | 93.19 | 2.33M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 75.81 | 75.88 | 74.53 | 75.38 | 2.31M |
Exchange Rates of April 12, 2010
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 93.190 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.011 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.003 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.997 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.060 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.944 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 6.825 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.147 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 126.620 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.008 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.885 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.131 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.470 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.680 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.362 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.734 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.440 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.694 EUR |
Euro | Chinese Yuan | 1 EUR = 9.277 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.108 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.698 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.432 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.161 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.862 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.076 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.930 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.137 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.879 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.662 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.602 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.540 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.649 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 1.628 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.614 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Chinese Yuan | 1 GBP = 10.476 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.095 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.926 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.079 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.979 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.021 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 AUD = 6.318 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.158 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1.057 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.947 CAD |
Canadian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 CAD = 6.807 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.147 CAD |
Swiss Franc | Chinese Yuan | 1 CHF = 6.442 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.155 CHF |
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