Financial news on January 26, 2007
Business and Financial news
While it is natural that New York politicians strive to keep taxes and jobs at home, not even the newly enlightened Eliot Spitzer can buck globalization. Read more..
It was the fourth consecutive year of double-digit economic growth and China’s strongest year since 1995. Read more..
The bigger-is-better worldview that has defined Ford is being replaced with a new one: less is more. Read more..
How to justify that $2.6 million Super Bowl commercial? Amortize it across the Internet, in e-mail and over the cellphone. Read more..
The maker of mobile phones said a push into emerging markets drove handset sales to a record. Read more..
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Smithfield Foods said it would phase out confinement of pigs in individual gestation crates over the next decade. Read more..
The Power Corporation of Canada is negotiating to acquire Marsh & McLennan’s Putnam Investments Mutual Fund unit for an estimated $3.9 billion. Read more..
The once booming market for home loans to people with weak credit is now coming under greater pressure. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Microsoft | MSFT | 31.22 | 31.23 | 30.60 | 30.60 | 96.1M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 26.16 | 26.54 | 25.76 | 26.35 | 64.4M |
Intel | INTC | 20.69 | 20.90 | 20.51 | 20.53 | 62.2M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 17.04 | 17.30 | 17.03 | 17.15 | 36M |
Apple | AAPL | 87.12 | 87.37 | 84.99 | 85.38 | 35.2M |
Pfizer | PFE | 26.33 | 26.35 | 26.00 | 26.29 | 33.1M |
Amgen | AMGN | 71.69 | 71.89 | 70.92 | 71.50 | 30.3M |
General Electric | GE | 36.45 | 36.55 | 36.01 | 36.07 | 25.9M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 36.37 | 36.79 | 36.00 | 36.40 | 24.4M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 73.89 | 74.49 | 73.45 | 73.61 | 20.5M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 52.70 | 52.76 | 51.95 | 52.55 | 14.2M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 50.00 | 50.25 | 49.50 | 49.70 | 14M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 64.46 | 65.11 | 64.09 | 64.77 | 11.1M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 48.05 | 48.36 | 47.47 | 47.67 | 11.1M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 490.93 | 497.90 | 487.03 | 495.84 | 11M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 66.68 | 66.87 | 65.99 | 66.07 | 10.8M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 35.00 | 35.07 | 34.47 | 34.55 | 10.5M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 37.50 | 37.83 | 37.10 | 37.83 | 10.5M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 43.54 | 43.97 | 43.10 | 43.30 | 10.5M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 36.13 | 36.23 | 35.83 | 36.03 | 10.1M |
Home Depot | HD | 40.12 | 40.22 | 39.64 | 39.94 | 9.8M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 41.75 | 42.10 | 41.36 | 41.69 | 9.72M |
Pepsico | PEP | 64.45 | 64.81 | 64.40 | 64.45 | 8.57M |
McDonald's | MCD | 43.02 | 43.09 | 42.54 | 42.93 | 8.54M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 26.21 | 26.34 | 25.95 | 26.21 | 7.88M |
Altria | MO | 88.30 | 88.50 | 87.65 | 88.00 | 7.69M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 63.00 | 63.49 | 62.26 | 62.65 | 7.42M |
Chevron | CVX | 71.89 | 72.37 | 71.23 | 71.50 | 7.27M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 48.00 | 48.10 | 47.80 | 47.83 | 7.23M |
Merck | MRK | 45.99 | 46.39 | 45.42 | 45.99 | 7.05M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 65.00 | 65.14 | 64.50 | 64.86 | 6.83M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 97.49 | 97.83 | 96.84 | 97.45 | 5.77M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 63.45 | 63.69 | 62.40 | 62.73 | 5.76M |
Boeing | BA | 86.00 | 86.25 | 84.60 | 85.43 | 5.15M |
United Technologies | UTX | 66.11 | 66.55 | 65.66 | 66.04 | 4.6M |
Amazon | AMZN | 37.26 | 37.26 | 36.30 | 36.85 | 4.14M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 52.06 | 52.14 | 51.28 | 51.54 | 4.1M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 96.74 | 97.01 | 95.04 | 95.43 | 2.03M |
3M | MMM | 78.97 | 79.19 | 78.23 | 78.69 | 2M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 3589.00 | 3590.00 | 3541.00 | 3545.50 | 15.8K |
Exchange Rates of January 26, 2007
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 121.520 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.008 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.180 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.848 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.253 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.798 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7.777 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.129 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 156.940 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.006 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.659 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.517 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.669 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.599 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.523 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.656 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.619 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.618 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.420 GBP | 1 GBP = 2.383 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.063 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.941 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.970 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.031 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.031 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.970 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.532 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.395 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.311 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.433 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2.455 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.407 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.912 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.096 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.969 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.032 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1.062 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.941 CAD |
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