Financial news on December 17, 2007
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Lenny Dykstra, a former baseball star, is launching The Players Club, a magazine aimed at helping players manage their millions. Read more..
Ideeli, a new e-commerce Web site, will offer members a chance to buy heavily discounted luxury items — as long as they are quick enough. Read more..
Media consumers have been watching the writers’ strike from the sidelines, but they might take notice if the awards season is replaced by marches and pickets. Read more..
The new Facebook application for the Rhapsody music service shows some of the advantages of integrating powerful applications into Facebook’s environment. Read more..
Newer computer chips with multiple processors require dauntingly complex software and programmers are having a hard time keeping up. Read more..
A broad coalition of groups is expected to file a petition asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to expand its investigation into the marketing of power. Read more..
Ingersoll Rand, the industrial conglomerate, said Monday it would buy Trane, the air conditioning company that is the successor to American Standard, for $10.1 billion in cash and stock. Read more..
Key milestones expected in the week ahead. Read more..
A startup takes an entire telephone company switchboard and makes it available over the Internet. This allows programmers to develop applications that combine telephone calls and other data. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Intel | INTC | 26.23 | 26.28 | 25.38 | 25.72 | 64.8M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 35.03 | 35.13 | 34.36 | 34.39 | 58.1M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 28.59 | 28.65 | 27.92 | 27.95 | 44M |
Pfizer | PFE | 23.01 | 23.33 | 22.92 | 22.97 | 43.9M |
General Electric | GE | 36.89 | 36.90 | 36.28 | 36.48 | 40.4M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 21.15 | 21.16 | 20.82 | 20.94 | 37M |
Apple | AAPL | 190.72 | 192.65 | 182.98 | 184.40 | 36.6M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 18.01 | 18.15 | 18.00 | 18.10 | 31M |
Home Depot | HD | 26.53 | 26.73 | 25.84 | 25.94 | 25.2M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 40.80 | 41.14 | 40.44 | 40.50 | 23.5M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 90.76 | 90.90 | 89.40 | 89.89 | 22.7M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 29.91 | 30.88 | 29.50 | 30.07 | 21.8M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 44.51 | 45.50 | 44.36 | 44.53 | 20M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 47.37 | 48.16 | 47.26 | 47.83 | 16.5M |
Amgen | AMGN | 48.02 | 48.13 | 46.71 | 46.78 | 15M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 73.68 | 73.94 | 73.09 | 73.24 | 13.3M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 44.01 | 44.10 | 43.00 | 43.10 | 12.6M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 93.08 | 93.75 | 88.30 | 90.28 | 12.6M |
Merck | MRK | 60.18 | 60.59 | 59.42 | 59.49 | 12.6M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 83.01 | 83.16 | 81.57 | 81.91 | 12.5M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 27.98 | 28.25 | 27.75 | 27.81 | 12.5M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 67.55 | 67.76 | 67.21 | 67.55 | 12.4M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 32.97 | 33.25 | 32.69 | 32.99 | 12M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 63.90 | 64.15 | 62.28 | 62.47 | 11.9M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 51.81 | 52.05 | 50.79 | 50.93 | 11.2M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 688.00 | 695.42 | 663.67 | 669.23 | 11M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 57.25 | 57.94 | 56.56 | 56.77 | 10.4M |
Altria | MO | 76.14 | 76.97 | 75.93 | 76.02 | 10.4M |
Chevron | CVX | 91.42 | 91.76 | 89.58 | 89.98 | 8.21M |
Amazon | AMZN | 89.01 | 89.06 | 84.99 | 85.09 | 7.7M |
McDonald's | MCD | 61.00 | 61.00 | 59.71 | 59.76 | 7.29M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 105.37 | 105.99 | 104.00 | 104.53 | 7.13M |
Pepsico | PEP | 78.46 | 78.89 | 77.20 | 77.37 | 5.97M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 56.60 | 57.20 | 56.37 | 56.59 | 5.75M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 45.50 | 46.19 | 45.32 | 45.44 | 5.5M |
Boeing | BA | 88.10 | 88.90 | 87.20 | 87.40 | 4.95M |
United Technologies | UTX | 76.45 | 76.65 | 74.83 | 75.04 | 4.47M |
3M | MMM | 85.88 | 86.70 | 85.39 | 85.78 | 3.73M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 130.23 | 130.84 | 128.77 | 128.96 | 1.88M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 4655.00 | 4655.00 | 4460.00 | 4525.00 | 39.5K |
Exchange Rates of December 17, 2007
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 112.910 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.009 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.005 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.995 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.149 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.870 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7.380 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.136 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 162.630 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.006 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.713 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.404 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.680 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.595 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.448 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.691 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.655 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.604 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.438 GBP | 1 GBP = 2.284 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.032 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.969 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.890 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.124 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.017 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.983 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.357 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.424 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.032 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.492 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2.321 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.431 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.861 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.161 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.984 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.016 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1.142 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.875 CAD |
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