Financial news on February 20, 2007
Business and Financial news
With the growth of small-business and independent employee travel, booking sites are scrambling to serve this market. Read more..
Saving a knife collection and surviving a behind-the-scenes tour of a Chinese airport. Read more..
Bank of America is backing away from “Higher Standards” — at least in its new national advertising campaign. Read more..
Pop stars, chief executives and politicians vaunt how they offset carbon emissions by planting trees or investing in renewable energy projects. Read more..
Italy’s infrastructure minister indicated Monday that he would not block Spanish acquisition of a large stake in Telecom Italia. Read more..
ONLINE MARKET HEATS UP The big three third-party online travel-booking sites, Expedia, Orbitz and Travelocity, dropped slightly over all in customer-satisfaction ratings last year. The reason is that individual airline and hotel online sites, and ... Read more..
The planned $13 billion merger of the nation’s two satellite radio services, Sirius and XM, is sure to raise antitrust issues. Read more..
Developing some fluency in foreign languages is getting to be as important as taking along a laptop on an overseas trip. Read more..
World stock markets ended higher Monday, as merger and acquisition talk bolstered shares in Europe and Japan. Read more..
Robert Adler was a physicist and prolific inventor best known as the co-inventor of the television remote control device. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Microsoft | MSFT | 28.63 | 28.86 | 28.47 | 28.83 | 54M |
Intel | INTC | 21.06 | 21.32 | 20.90 | 21.18 | 47.9M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 27.56 | 28.00 | 27.28 | 27.66 | 40.8M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 49.86 | 50.29 | 49.41 | 50.26 | 36.5M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 16.69 | 16.98 | 16.57 | 16.98 | 31.9M |
Pfizer | PFE | 26.19 | 26.36 | 26.11 | 26.30 | 26.2M |
General Electric | GE | 35.78 | 36.13 | 35.75 | 36.11 | 23.5M |
Apple | AAPL | 84.65 | 86.16 | 84.16 | 85.90 | 22.1M |
Home Depot | HD | 40.75 | 41.80 | 40.70 | 41.34 | 17.9M |
Amgen | AMGN | 66.65 | 67.18 | 66.25 | 66.35 | 17.5M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 42.67 | 43.24 | 42.50 | 43.13 | 17.2M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 37.60 | 37.75 | 37.35 | 37.36 | 17M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 75.05 | 75.05 | 74.29 | 74.87 | 15.8M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 41.39 | 41.56 | 41.06 | 41.45 | 10.7M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 65.53 | 65.65 | 65.02 | 65.58 | 9.52M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 52.49 | 52.67 | 52.28 | 52.58 | 9.51M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 65.26 | 65.83 | 65.26 | 65.46 | 9.38M |
Chevron | CVX | 70.65 | 70.65 | 70.02 | 70.12 | 9.35M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 64.75 | 65.07 | 64.36 | 64.88 | 9.2M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 61.81 | 62.66 | 61.80 | 62.34 | 9.2M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 51.15 | 51.75 | 51.12 | 51.63 | 9.17M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 47.52 | 47.88 | 47.50 | 47.78 | 8.91M |
Amazon | AMZN | 40.13 | 41.74 | 40.00 | 41.51 | 8.9M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 34.82 | 35.13 | 34.67 | 35.05 | 8.82M |
Merck | MRK | 44.39 | 44.70 | 44.21 | 44.50 | 8.4M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 468.47 | 472.75 | 464.71 | 472.10 | 8.13M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 35.84 | 35.97 | 35.60 | 35.94 | 7.99M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 38.55 | 38.60 | 38.05 | 38.26 | 7.88M |
Altria | MO | 86.50 | 86.75 | 85.50 | 85.95 | 7.84M |
McDonald's | MCD | 45.70 | 45.90 | 45.05 | 45.80 | 7.02M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 27.58 | 27.76 | 27.35 | 27.42 | 6.68M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 54.55 | 54.95 | 53.61 | 53.82 | 6.24M |
United Technologies | UTX | 68.84 | 69.00 | 67.98 | 68.13 | 6.11M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 98.66 | 99.46 | 98.55 | 99.35 | 4.12M |
Pepsico | PEP | 64.42 | 64.76 | 64.23 | 64.61 | 3.99M |
3M | MMM | 76.50 | 76.75 | 75.94 | 76.10 | 3.96M |
Boeing | BA | 91.50 | 91.69 | 89.84 | 91.03 | 3.94M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 72.73 | 72.96 | 71.58 | 72.69 | 3.57M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 101.50 | 102.95 | 101.10 | 102.70 | 1.7M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 3620.00 | 3647.50 | 3610.00 | 3633.00 | 9.5K |
Exchange Rates of February 20, 2007
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 120.010 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.008 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.170 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.855 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.237 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.809 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7.750 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.129 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 157.660 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.006 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.672 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.489 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.670 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.599 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.537 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.651 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.624 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.616 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.426 GBP | 1 GBP = 2.348 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.059 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.944 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.975 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.026 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.030 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.971 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.486 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.402 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.288 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.437 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2.417 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.414 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.920 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.087 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.972 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.029 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1.057 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.946 CAD |
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