Financial news on November 20th, 2008
Business and Financial news
For gaming enthusiasts, the Wii Everlast Boxing Gloves fulfill the promise that the Power Glove for Nintendo offered in 1989. Read more..
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Tiny Summit Entertainment finds itself sitting atop one of the biggest pop-culture phenomena of recent years. Read more..
A new digital library, called Europeana, intends to showcase Europe’s history, literature, arts and science. Read more..
Pure Digital has added high definition to its Flip Mino, which is already called the least-expensive, smallest and fastest camcorder on the market. Read more..
The Dow fell below 8,000 as concern spread that the economy might be facing a chronic and debilitating decline in prices. Read more..
If Roy Schoenberg, the start-up’s co-founder and chief executive, has his way, patients will no longer have to wait a month to see a doctor for an urgent sore throat, wait all day for a doctor to return their call or leave work midday and drive a long distance for a routine appointment. Instead, patients will log on to their computers and find themselves face-to-face with physicians over Webcam. Read more..
When all your friends are starting applications on their fancy new phones with a flick of the finger, you can’t help feeling old-fashioned. Read more..
I get a pop-up above the computer’s system tray that says: “Updates are ready for your computer. Click here to install these updates.” Who is providing these updates? Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
General Electric | GE | 14.10 | 14.45 | 12.58 | 12.84 | 235M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 27.74 | 28.71 | 22.32 | 23.38 | 161M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 18.12 | 18.84 | 17.50 | 17.53 | 140M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 15.00 | 16.23 | 14.43 | 14.47 | 119M |
Intel | INTC | 12.28 | 13.15 | 12.17 | 12.23 | 114M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 23.88 | 25.44 | 22.00 | 22.53 | 111M |
Pfizer | PFE | 15.49 | 16.03 | 14.26 | 14.45 | 91.1M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 71.84 | 75.42 | 68.30 | 68.51 | 76.9M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 16.02 | 16.76 | 15.32 | 15.40 | 67.2M |
Apple | AAPL | 85.24 | 86.45 | 80.00 | 80.49 | 61.3M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 24.91 | 26.68 | 24.15 | 24.51 | 57.1M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 13.97 | 14.56 | 12.80 | 13.30 | 41M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 50.61 | 53.50 | 50.36 | 50.66 | 40.8M |
Altria | MO | 16.26 | 16.40 | 14.34 | 14.45 | 40.8M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 32.77 | 34.45 | 31.43 | 31.83 | 40.5M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 54.26 | 54.41 | 49.50 | 50.35 | 35.7M |
Chevron | CVX | 69.13 | 71.25 | 64.27 | 64.40 | 34.2M |
Home Depot | HD | 19.44 | 20.29 | 18.31 | 18.52 | 32.8M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 26.54 | 28.82 | 26.27 | 26.50 | 32.2M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 61.67 | 63.42 | 59.00 | 59.33 | 31.3M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 45.19 | 46.93 | 41.27 | 41.80 | 31.3M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 58.00 | 58.55 | 55.00 | 55.81 | 31M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 45.98 | 46.47 | 39.00 | 39.60 | 27.1M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 19.59 | 20.15 | 18.60 | 18.73 | 26.9M |
Merck | MRK | 25.18 | 26.60 | 23.18 | 23.56 | 23.2M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 20.17 | 20.78 | 18.98 | 19.28 | 22.8M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 42.00 | 43.76 | 41.00 | 41.07 | 21.1M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 274.89 | 282.94 | 259.04 | 259.56 | 19.5M |
Amazon | AMZN | 35.29 | 39.72 | 34.68 | 35.03 | 18.4M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 75.00 | 78.39 | 70.51 | 71.74 | 17.6M |
United Technologies | UTX | 45.30 | 46.39 | 42.76 | 43.22 | 16.5M |
McDonald's | MCD | 54.73 | 56.30 | 52.58 | 52.91 | 15.9M |
Amgen | AMGN | 53.63 | 54.73 | 50.09 | 50.13 | 14.2M |
Pepsico | PEP | 51.59 | 53.95 | 50.00 | 50.29 | 13.5M |
Boeing | BA | 36.98 | 39.74 | 36.72 | 37.11 | 13.4M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 17.60 | 18.65 | 15.93 | 16.30 | 13.1M |
Visa | V | 50.21 | 51.30 | 48.00 | 48.14 | 12.7M |
3M | MMM | 58.25 | 61.06 | 56.25 | 56.79 | 11.5M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 42.64 | 43.99 | 41.29 | 41.53 | 11M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 50.18 | 53.14 | 47.36 | 49.12 | 10.7M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 2700.00 | 2797.00 | 2451.00 | 2620.00 | 183K |
Exchange Rates of November 20th, 2008
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 93.710 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.011 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.296 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.772 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.223 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.817 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 6.834 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.146 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 116.670 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.009 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.845 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.183 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 2.039 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.490 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.613 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.620 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.525 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.656 EUR |
Euro | Chinese Yuan | 1 EUR = 8.503 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.118 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.724 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.381 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.747 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.573 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.382 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.723 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.306 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.765 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.411 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.415 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.908 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.524 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 1.804 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.554 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Chinese Yuan | 1 GBP = 10.046 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.100 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.791 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.265 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.747 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.338 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 AUD = 4.169 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.240 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 0.945 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.059 CAD |
Canadian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 CAD = 5.271 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.190 CAD |
Swiss Franc | Chinese Yuan | 1 CHF = 5.580 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.179 CHF |
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