Financial news on April 16, 2012
Business and Financial news
Steven Amato, chief content officer at Omelet, Los Angeles, was named president, a new post, and chief content officer of a new division, Omelet Studio. Read more..
A pro bono public service campaign on behalf of Reading Is Fundamental is aimed at women with children under the age of 15. Read more..
Weighing an economic slowdown in China and commodities traders boycott an exchange over regulatory dispute. Read more..
New Internal Revenue Service form requires American taxpayers abroad to provide detailed information on their overseas financial accounts, including income derived from them; penalties for failing to file start at $10,000, and filers are subject to major fines for underreporting, even when innocent errors are made. Read more..
Research by Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, two French economists known simply as Piketty-Saez in Washington, has provided the subtext to the battle over tax fairness. Read more..
Trial for George Zimmerman, charged with second degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, will most likely not start for months, if ever, but some in the news media are already predicting blanket coverage; media has seized on the story with a ferocity that has drawn comparisons to the Casey Anthony trial and that of O J Simpson. Read more..
An investigation into Google’s Street View project was left unresolved because the engineer in charge declined to talk, according to an interim report. Read more..
Gloom over Europe had seemed to be lifting, with the conclusion of Greece's second bailout and the calming effect of cheap loans from the European Central Bank; but jump in borrowing costs for Spain and Italy signal clearly that the euro's problems are far from solved. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 43.38 | 43.80 | 42.84 | 43.33 | 40.4M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 30.99 | 31.19 | 30.77 | 31.08 | 38.1M |
Pfizer | PFE | 21.84 | 22.06 | 21.77 | 21.98 | 38M |
Apple | AAPL | 610.06 | 610.28 | 578.25 | 580.13 | 37.5M |
Intel | INTC | 28.26 | 28.55 | 28.14 | 28.41 | 37.5M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 19.92 | 19.96 | 19.57 | 19.73 | 35.3M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 66.01 | 67.10 | 65.88 | 66.78 | 32.8M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 33.18 | 33.45 | 32.67 | 33.15 | 30.1M |
General Electric | GE | 18.98 | 19.13 | 18.85 | 18.90 | 30.1M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 28.58 | 28.77 | 28.31 | 28.64 | 21.5M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 83.24 | 84.39 | 83.13 | 84.01 | 17.5M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 73.81 | 74.52 | 73.62 | 73.83 | 16.8M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 24.78 | 24.82 | 24.17 | 24.31 | 15.1M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 30.56 | 30.72 | 30.50 | 30.61 | 14.7M |
Merck | MRK | 37.88 | 38.06 | 37.88 | 37.95 | 13.9M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 59.72 | 60.14 | 59.69 | 59.85 | 12M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 623.00 | 623.81 | 601.66 | 606.07 | 11.4M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 63.72 | 64.16 | 63.67 | 63.98 | 10.5M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 32.62 | 33.00 | 32.59 | 32.93 | 10.4M |
Home Depot | HD | 51.44 | 51.85 | 50.94 | 51.69 | 10.2M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 29.58 | 29.84 | 29.49 | 29.77 | 9.15M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 37.33 | 37.55 | 37.21 | 37.43 | 8.04M |
Pepsico | PEP | 65.13 | 66.39 | 65.13 | 65.99 | 7.86M |
General Motors | GM | 23.78 | 23.93 | 23.36 | 23.42 | 7.53M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 72.22 | 72.79 | 72.14 | 72.44 | 7.07M |
Altria | MO | 31.55 | 31.64 | 31.35 | 31.38 | 6.87M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 68.75 | 69.08 | 67.36 | 67.44 | 6.85M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 59.94 | 60.81 | 59.87 | 60.58 | 6.84M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 58.35 | 58.35 | 57.36 | 57.36 | 6.63M |
McDonald's | MCD | 97.09 | 97.90 | 96.32 | 96.58 | 6.24M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 42.06 | 42.13 | 41.54 | 41.66 | 6.11M |
Chevron | CVX | 101.62 | 102.24 | 101.17 | 101.51 | 6.07M |
Boeing | BA | 72.98 | 73.19 | 72.30 | 72.68 | 4.8M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 45.55 | 46.00 | 45.39 | 45.86 | 4.7M |
Visa | V | 123.04 | 123.05 | 120.04 | 120.83 | 4.58M |
Amazon | AMZN | 189.01 | 189.47 | 183.65 | 185.50 | 4.04M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 204.74 | 205.97 | 202.72 | 202.72 | 3.83M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 79.48 | 79.94 | 79.08 | 79.67 | 3.77M |
United Technologies | UTX | 80.13 | 80.96 | 79.61 | 79.88 | 3.18M |
3M | MMM | 86.04 | 86.93 | 85.92 | 86.40 | 3.06M |
Amgen | AMGN | 65.59 | 66.33 | 65.37 | 66.26 | 3.03M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 108.34 | 109.50 | 107.94 | 108.09 | 2.35M |
Exchange Rates of April 16, 2012
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 80.420 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.012 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.000 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.000 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 0.915 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.093 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 6.316 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.158 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 105.630 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.009 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.826 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.211 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.268 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.789 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.313 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.762 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.202 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.832 EUR |
Euro | Chinese Yuan | 1 EUR = 8.295 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.121 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.782 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.279 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.200 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.833 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.243 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.805 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.138 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.879 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.535 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.652 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.589 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.629 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 1.455 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.687 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Chinese Yuan | 1 GBP = 10.040 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.100 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 1.035 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.966 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.948 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.055 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 AUD = 6.540 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.153 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 0.915 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.093 CAD |
Canadian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 CAD = 6.317 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.158 CAD |
Swiss Franc | Chinese Yuan | 1 CHF = 6.901 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.145 CHF |
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