Financial news on August 16th, 2010
Business and Financial news
HBO plans to spend more than $10 million on the marketing for “Boardwalk Empire,” a series from Martin Scorsese. Read more..
Agrium on Sunday unveiled a $1.1 billion unsolicited takeover offer for Australia’s AWB, hoping to pre-empt the company’s already-announced merger with GrainCorp. Read more..
The Deal Professor examines the Blackstone Group’s deal for Dynegy and considers how much the terms of transactions have changed since the financial crisis. Read more..
Groups that saw Google as a top ally in the fight for net neutrality see its proposal with Verizon as a retreat. Read more..
Hulu, the rapidly growing hub for online television and movies, aims to go public through an offering that could value the company at more than $2 billion, according to people briefed on the matter. Read more..
“The Expendables,” an ensemble action film starring and directed by Sylvester Stallone, took in an estimated $35 million in ticket sales and beat out “Eat Pray Love.” Read more..
The Finnish company has its work cut out for it in the United States, where Nokia shows little of the swagger of a global powerhouse. Read more..
Chalk it up to a competitive environment among programmers and a viewer appetite for new shows year-round. Read more..
A few days after the Agricultural Bank went public, dozens of former bank employees stealthily gathered outside the headquarters of the country’s central bank. They quickly pulled on red and blue T-shirts that read, “Protect the Rights of Downsized Bank Workers.” Within minutes, a flock of police officers had swept everyone into five waiting public buses. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 21,24 | 22,12 | 21,22 | 21,91 | 88.6M |
General Electric | GE | 15,29 | 15,49 | 15,15 | 15,46 | 56.4M |
Intel | INTC | 19,14 | 19,56 | 19,11 | 19,47 | 48.7M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 24,36 | 24,61 | 24,30 | 24,50 | 40.9M |
Pfizer | PFE | 15,98 | 16,17 | 15,85 | 16,03 | 36.3M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 37,32 | 37,82 | 37,28 | 37,69 | 28.3M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 25,67 | 25,91 | 25,52 | 25,68 | 24.6M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 40,51 | 41,09 | 40,35 | 40,55 | 22.9M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 26,63 | 26,71 | 26,48 | 26,65 | 19.9M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 22,51 | 23,00 | 22,35 | 22,72 | 19.5M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 59,60 | 60,25 | 59,25 | 59,88 | 14.3M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 29,94 | 30,15 | 29,72 | 29,96 | 14.1M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 59,63 | 60,20 | 59,32 | 59,77 | 13.1M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 17,83 | 17,95 | 17,61 | 17,75 | 12.3M |
Home Depot | HD | 27,50 | 28,07 | 27,28 | 27,38 | 12.2M |
Apple | AAPL | 247,58 | 250,01 | 246,62 | 247,64 | 11.4M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 34,26 | 34,34 | 33,70 | 33,86 | 10.7M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 26,24 | 26,34 | 26,04 | 26,28 | 10.4M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 50,05 | 50,43 | 49,77 | 50,34 | 10M |
Altria | MO | 22,34 | 22,60 | 22,15 | 22,60 | 9.92M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 50,17 | 50,57 | 50,06 | 50,41 | 9.65M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 54,80 | 54,97 | 54,30 | 54,93 | 9.42M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 57,99 | 58,11 | 57,47 | 58,01 | 8.75M |
Chevron | CVX | 77,11 | 77,83 | 76,37 | 77,71 | 7.28M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 55,51 | 55,93 | 55,12 | 55,88 | 6.98M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 33,44 | 33,75 | 33,11 | 33,66 | 6.92M |
Merck | MRK | 34,77 | 35,00 | 34,59 | 34,97 | 6.89M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 58,51 | 59,83 | 58,40 | 59,37 | 5.97M |
Amgen | AMGN | 54,38 | 54,60 | 53,57 | 54,08 | 5.64M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 31,85 | 31,99 | 31,37 | 31,90 | 5.23M |
McDonald's | MCD | 71,76 | 72,12 | 71,54 | 71,79 | 4.94M |
Amazon | AMZN | 123,61 | 127,37 | 123,04 | 126,07 | 4.02M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 127,47 | 128,23 | 126,96 | 127,77 | 4.01M |
Pepsico | PEP | 65,30 | 65,50 | 64,80 | 65,43 | 3.56M |
Boeing | BA | 64,27 | 64,93 | 63,65 | 64,40 | 3.03M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 76,50 | 77,25 | 76,04 | 76,84 | 2.95M |
Visa | V | 72,08 | 73,24 | 71,80 | 72,83 | 2.68M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 483,68 | 489,87 | 480,50 | 485,59 | 2.61M |
United Technologies | UTX | 70,20 | 70,78 | 69,50 | 70,35 | 2.59M |
3M | MMM | 83,33 | 83,96 | 82,33 | 83,43 | 2.36M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 72,23 | 73,43 | 72,23 | 73,09 | 2.04M |
Exchange Rates of August 16th, 2010
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 85,310 JPY | 1 JPY = 0,012 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1,043 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,959 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1,039 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,962 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 6,805 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,147 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 109,400 JPY | 1 JPY = 0,009 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0,819 GBP | 1 GBP = 1,221 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1,429 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,700 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1,337 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,748 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1,333 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,750 EUR |
Euro | Chinese Yuan | 1 EUR = 8,724 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,115 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0,748 GBP | 1 GBP = 1,336 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1,305 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,766 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1,222 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,818 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1,218 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,821 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1,745 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,573 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1,633 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,612 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 1,627 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,615 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Chinese Yuan | 1 GBP = 10,642 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,094 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0,936 CAD | 1 CAD = 1,069 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0,932 CHF | 1 CHF = 1,073 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 AUD = 6,105 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,164 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 0,996 CHF | 1 CHF = 1,004 CAD |
Canadian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 CAD = 6,520 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,153 CAD |
Swiss Franc | Chinese Yuan | 1 CHF = 6,544 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,153 CHF |
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