Financial news on November 17th, 2010
Business and Financial news
Auditors from the Government Accountability Office said the Treasury sometimes worked with incorrect numbers or failed to document the value of assets in financial statements, Mary Williams Walsh reports in The New York Times. Read more..
With the acquisition, valued at $48 a share, Allegheny Technologies will be able to expand its specialized metals business. Read more..
General Motors is the not the only I.P.O. this week. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding, the government consulting firm owned by Carlyle Group, priced its shares at the low end of an expected range on Tuesday night Read more..
Britain said it could offer assistance as the prospects for a European bailout increased at a meeting of finance ministers. Read more..
Shaken by the real estate crash, the Bryant Park office submarket has attracted buyers looking for real estate bargains. Read more..
Two bakery chains, Lagkagehuset and Emmerys, have grown rapidly in these hard economic times. Read more..
Nearly five years they bought the company, Bain Capital, the Carlyle Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners are adding onto its debt. Read more..
The noted architect owns a 5 percent stake in the Inland Steel Building in Chicago. A new developer took over renovations that will turn Inland into a Class A office building. Read more..
Mr. Calello helped the bank weather the financial crisis after he took over the investment banking unit in 2007. Read more..
Recent discoveries of oil and natural gas fields and new mining technology have combined to help increase the world’s supply of energy for decades to come. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 19.62 | 19.68 | 19.39 | 19.41 | 112M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 25.90 | 25.91 | 25.55 | 25.57 | 58.3M |
Intel | INTC | 21.02 | 21.22 | 20.93 | 21.08 | 44.3M |
Pfizer | PFE | 16.50 | 16.66 | 16.47 | 16.48 | 37.8M |
General Electric | GE | 15.87 | 15.92 | 15.76 | 15.81 | 36.3M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 39.58 | 39.68 | 38.98 | 39.18 | 32M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 27.18 | 27.43 | 26.76 | 26.86 | 32M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 41.78 | 42.12 | 40.77 | 40.97 | 28.7M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 27.51 | 28.11 | 27.49 | 27.91 | 24.6M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 28.18 | 28.24 | 27.93 | 27.96 | 24.3M |
Merck | MRK | 34.81 | 35.65 | 34.45 | 34.47 | 20M |
Home Depot | HD | 31.66 | 31.71 | 30.67 | 30.83 | 19.4M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 68.84 | 69.38 | 68.56 | 69.01 | 17.5M |
Apple | AAPL | 301.20 | 303.99 | 297.76 | 300.50 | 17.1M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 47.83 | 48.11 | 47.71 | 47.80 | 15.3M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 54.35 | 54.44 | 53.56 | 53.77 | 14.5M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 32.25 | 32.52 | 31.95 | 32.34 | 13.2M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 20.24 | 20.49 | 20.12 | 20.39 | 11.7M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 36.80 | 37.32 | 36.70 | 37.22 | 10.6M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 37.90 | 37.99 | 37.45 | 37.70 | 9.88M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 72.74 | 74.77 | 72.58 | 74.40 | 9.64M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 35.09 | 35.34 | 34.58 | 35.33 | 9.58M |
Altria | MO | 24.34 | 24.60 | 24.29 | 24.46 | 9.21M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 60.95 | 61.44 | 60.65 | 60.81 | 9.16M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 62.14 | 62.72 | 62.10 | 62.52 | 8.37M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 26.17 | 26.22 | 25.80 | 25.96 | 8.29M |
Boeing | BA | 62.67 | 63.02 | 62.17 | 62.50 | 8.17M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 63.39 | 63.50 | 63.14 | 63.27 | 7.94M |
Chevron | CVX | 82.41 | 83.13 | 82.10 | 82.46 | 7.85M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 63.13 | 63.29 | 62.92 | 63.06 | 7.42M |
Amgen | AMGN | 53.75 | 54.06 | 53.44 | 53.87 | 5.87M |
McDonald's | MCD | 77.43 | 78.52 | 77.43 | 78.37 | 5.27M |
Pepsico | PEP | 64.12 | 64.24 | 63.72 | 63.94 | 5.02M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 585.00 | 589.50 | 581.37 | 583.55 | 4.88M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 142.49 | 142.49 | 141.39 | 141.95 | 4.79M |
Amazon | AMZN | 157.84 | 160.85 | 157.55 | 158.35 | 4.52M |
United Technologies | UTX | 73.73 | 74.07 | 73.43 | 73.64 | 3.9M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 80.13 | 80.33 | 79.52 | 79.53 | 3.75M |
Visa | V | 74.90 | 76.35 | 74.86 | 75.73 | 3.72M |
3M | MMM | 84.08 | 84.52 | 83.52 | 83.95 | 3.13M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 89.71 | 90.03 | 89.29 | 89.91 | 2.12M |
Exchange Rates of November 17th, 2010
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 83.190 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.012 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.025 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.976 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 0.991 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.009 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 6.643 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.151 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 112.530 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.009 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.850 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.176 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.381 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.724 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.386 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.721 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.341 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.745 EUR |
Euro | Chinese Yuan | 1 EUR = 8.989 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.111 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.755 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.324 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.226 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.816 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.231 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.812 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.192 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.839 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.623 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.616 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.630 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.614 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 1.577 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.634 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Chinese Yuan | 1 GBP = 10.558 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.095 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 1.004 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.996 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.971 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.030 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 AUD = 6.511 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.154 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 0.967 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.034 CAD |
Canadian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 CAD = 6.486 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.154 CAD |
Swiss Franc | Chinese Yuan | 1 CHF = 6.700 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.149 CHF |
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