Financial news on December 12, 2007
Business and Financial news
The agreement came on a day when Chinese and American representatives exchanged heated words over recent trade disputes, according to American officials. Read more..
The home of the New England Patriots will soon include a vast real estate development on about 350 acres in Foxborough, Mass. Read more..
Although Rupert Murdoch just completed his purchase of Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, on Thursday, his influence is already apparent. Read more..
The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to delay for another year the requirement that small companies report on the state of their internal financial controls. Read more..
Stocks fell sharply and investors rushed to the safety of Treasuries after the Fed announced that it had made only a quarter-point cut in the rate that financial firms pay to borrow from the central bank. Read more..
The small business lobbying group that had a big part in derailing Hillary Clinton’s effort to overhaul health care in the early 1990’s has staked out its position for the 2008 political season. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 28,92 | 29,44 | 28,37 | 28,80 | 86.7M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 18,10 | 18,11 | 17,37 | 17,63 | 79.3M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 34,61 | 35,09 | 33,93 | 34,47 | 63.3M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 41,00 | 42,00 | 40,76 | 41,71 | 62.2M |
Intel | INTC | 27,43 | 27,72 | 26,89 | 27,28 | 56.6M |
General Electric | GE | 37,99 | 38,14 | 36,85 | 37,25 | 51.4M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 47,35 | 47,79 | 45,18 | 46,15 | 44.4M |
Apple | AAPL | 193,44 | 194,48 | 185,76 | 190,86 | 43.8M |
Pfizer | PFE | 24,10 | 24,20 | 23,56 | 23,81 | 43.4M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 31,41 | 31,88 | 29,83 | 30,67 | 41.2M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 21,41 | 21,81 | 21,06 | 21,37 | 39.8M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 91,77 | 93,09 | 90,87 | 91,92 | 25.7M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 49,62 | 49,64 | 47,61 | 48,23 | 23.9M |
Merck | MRK | 61,00 | 61,62 | 59,08 | 59,72 | 21.5M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 45,05 | 45,71 | 44,25 | 44,94 | 20.5M |
Home Depot | HD | 29,00 | 29,28 | 28,00 | 28,49 | 20.1M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 58,50 | 59,48 | 57,50 | 58,11 | 19.9M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 68,00 | 68,40 | 67,02 | 67,70 | 19.3M |
Boeing | BA | 88,15 | 89,53 | 85,55 | 86,92 | 18.7M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 29,01 | 29,30 | 28,61 | 28,89 | 16.2M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 83,30 | 84,70 | 82,42 | 83,37 | 15.7M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 51,93 | 52,20 | 51,11 | 51,53 | 14.5M |
Altria | MO | 77,89 | 78,42 | 76,98 | 77,71 | 14.2M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 74,65 | 75,18 | 74,23 | 74,67 | 13.6M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 57,48 | 58,34 | 57,26 | 57,47 | 13.5M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 714,00 | 714,32 | 688,50 | 699,35 | 12.3M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 63,23 | 64,05 | 62,95 | 63,77 | 11.6M |
Chevron | CVX | 91,91 | 92,97 | 90,93 | 91,78 | 10.8M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 32,34 | 32,70 | 31,97 | 32,28 | 10.6M |
McDonald's | MCD | 63,60 | 63,69 | 61,10 | 61,66 | 10.2M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 97,71 | 99,58 | 96,22 | 97,65 | 9.78M |
Amgen | AMGN | 50,32 | 50,76 | 49,52 | 49,99 | 9.22M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 46,79 | 47,60 | 46,05 | 46,85 | 8.89M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 108,95 | 110,20 | 107,38 | 108,47 | 7.88M |
Pepsico | PEP | 78,04 | 78,57 | 77,20 | 78,09 | 7.47M |
3M | MMM | 88,10 | 88,70 | 85,97 | 86,66 | 7.25M |
Amazon | AMZN | 92,84 | 93,75 | 89,32 | 91,28 | 7.23M |
United Technologies | UTX | 78,26 | 78,26 | 75,80 | 76,78 | 5.22M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 134,60 | 137,56 | 130,28 | 132,57 | 3.02M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 5020,00 | 5020,00 | 4670,00 | 4809,00 | 33.5K |
Exchange Rates of December 12, 2007
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 112,220 JPY | 1 JPY = 0,009 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1,012 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,988 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1,135 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,881 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7,374 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,136 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 165,050 JPY | 1 JPY = 0,006 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0,718 GBP | 1 GBP = 1,392 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1,665 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,601 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1,488 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,672 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1,669 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,599 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0,435 GBP | 1 GBP = 2,299 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1,008 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,992 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0,902 CAD | 1 CAD = 1,109 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1,011 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,989 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2,318 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,431 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2,072 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,483 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2,322 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,431 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0,893 CAD | 1 CAD = 1,119 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 1,002 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,998 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1,121 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,892 CAD |
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