Financial news on July 25, 2006
Business and Financial news
Hewlett-Packard will install Internet search software from Baidu.com. on desktop and laptop computers sold in China for one year. Hewlett-Packard’s Pavilion and Presario computers will use Baidu.com as a home page and will include a shortcut key t... Read more..
In a new advertising campaign, Hewlett-Packard aims to imbue its machines with some of the coolness more commonly associated with Apple. Read more..
Nintendo, the world’s biggest maker of hand-held video game players, posted a 10 percent gain in first-quarter profit and raised its annual forecast to 83 billion yen from a previous estimate of 65 billion yen. Net income climbed to 15.6 billion y... Read more..
It was stock options that made Gregory L. Reyes, the former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems, very rich, and now it is abuse of options that may send him to prison. Read more..
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The collapse of negotiations touched off a bitter new round of recriminations between the United States and Europe. Read more..
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Combining A.M.D. with ATI, the leading maker of graphics processors, turns A.M.D. into a $7.3 billion rival to the $38.8 billion Intel. Read more..
To many travelers, those blurry movies that most airlines show on overhead screens the size of a college diploma have become as much of a joke as the food used to be. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
| Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
| Microsoft | MSFT | 24.00 | 24.29 | 23.90 | 24.22 | 60.1M |
| Intel | INTC | 17.48 | 17.77 | 17.31 | 17.54 | 47.4M |
| AT&T Inc. | T | 28.00 | 29.77 | 28.00 | 28.95 | 44.7M |
| Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 14.94 | 15.06 | 14.80 | 14.93 | 36.9M |
| Cisco Systems | CSCO | 17.99 | 18.20 | 17.72 | 18.07 | 33.6M |
| Pfizer | PFE | 24.70 | 25.13 | 24.70 | 24.96 | 29.8M |
| General Electric | GE | 32.80 | 32.81 | 32.45 | 32.70 | 22.1M |
| Apple | AAPL | 61.78 | 62.09 | 60.78 | 61.93 | 21M |
| Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 47.08 | 48.19 | 47.05 | 48.08 | 20.1M |
| 3M | MMM | 71.00 | 71.01 | 67.05 | 68.11 | 18.9M |
| ExxonMobil | XOM | 65.36 | 66.00 | 64.92 | 65.74 | 18.6M |
| Amazon | AMZN | 34.00 | 34.16 | 33.39 | 33.59 | 17.2M |
| HP Inc. | HPQ | 31.15 | 31.57 | 30.90 | 31.33 | 13.4M |
| Verizon Communications | VZ | 32.44 | 33.01 | 32.27 | 32.93 | 13.2M |
| JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 44.15 | 44.86 | 44.01 | 44.63 | 12.5M |
| Merck | MRK | 39.28 | 39.49 | 38.97 | 39.27 | 11.8M |
| Alphabet | GOOGL | 385.02 | 391.31 | 383.80 | 389.36 | 11.5M |
| ConocoPhillips | COP | 66.45 | 67.59 | 66.05 | 67.45 | 11.2M |
| Home Depot | HD | 34.44 | 35.34 | 34.32 | 35.24 | 11M |
| Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 44.21 | 44.80 | 43.94 | 44.67 | 10.7M |
| Altria | MO | 79.65 | 80.40 | 78.85 | 80.05 | 9.49M |
| Amgen | AMGN | 66.60 | 68.00 | 66.50 | 67.83 | 9.38M |
| Comcast | CMCSA | 32.67 | 32.90 | 32.28 | 32.59 | 9.23M |
| Schlumberger | SLB | 65.10 | 65.99 | 64.23 | 65.81 | 9.21M |
| Chevron | CVX | 66.42 | 67.16 | 65.80 | 66.95 | 8.35M |
| McDonald's | MCD | 35.00 | 35.34 | 34.65 | 34.76 | 8.19M |
| Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 29.20 | 29.62 | 28.96 | 29.48 | 8.08M |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 25.95 | 26.14 | 25.76 | 25.89 | 6.81M |
| Procter & Gamble | PG | 56.60 | 57.25 | 56.22 | 56.88 | 6.7M |
| Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 61.50 | 62.00 | 61.49 | 61.90 | 6.3M |
| UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 50.81 | 51.67 | 50.48 | 51.49 | 5.76M |
| International Business Machines | IBM | 75.99 | 76.41 | 75.31 | 75.89 | 5.58M |
| Coca-Cola | KO | 43.87 | 44.39 | 43.72 | 44.25 | 5.49M |
| Pepsico | PEP | 63.13 | 63.54 | 62.54 | 62.72 | 5.03M |
| Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 70.52 | 70.90 | 70.19 | 70.70 | 4.57M |
| Boeing | BA | 80.75 | 84.06 | 80.70 | 83.75 | 4.56M |
| United Technologies | UTX | 61.35 | 62.24 | 60.96 | 62.03 | 4.42M |
| Gilead Sciences | GILD | 60.20 | 62.09 | 60.14 | 61.89 | 3.82M |
| Union Pacific | UNP | 85.42 | 85.42 | 82.49 | 84.24 | 3.23M |
| Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 3028.00 | 3037.50 | 3025.00 | 3025.00 | 5.7K |
Exchange Rates of July 25, 2006
| Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
| US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 117.160 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.009 USD |
| US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.142 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.876 USD |
| US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.253 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.798 USD |
| US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7.985 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.125 USD |
| Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 147.380 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.007 EUR |
| Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.684 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.463 EUR |
| Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.671 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.599 EUR |
| Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.436 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.696 EUR |
| Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.577 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.634 EUR |
| Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.443 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.409 GBP |
| Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.100 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.476 GBP |
| Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2.306 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.434 GBP |
| Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.859 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.164 AUD |
| Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.943 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.060 AUD |
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