Financial news on January 27, 2010
Business and Financial news
A few struggling banks in the postbailout world are by some measures the industry’s most generous employers. Read more..
Trying to ward off regulators, the ad industry has agreed on a standard icon to tell consumers what is happening. Read more..
The severe recession has fast-forwarded history, catapulting an unprepared world into a period of uneasy cohabitation between China and the U.S. Read more..
More than half of the dealers terminated by General Motors and Chrysler go to arbitration, hoping to be reinstated or compensated. Read more..
The neoclassical model of economics failed a lot earlier than in the current crisis, at least according to Richard Thaler, a professor of behavioral economics at the University of Chicago. Read more..
Under the deal, Spyker will give G.M. $74 million in cash and $326 million in preferred shares of the combined Spyker-Saab entity. Read more..
The agency will require corporations to report the broad outlines of tax transactions that might raise questions within the agency. Read more..
A rundown of Day 1 at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Read more..
Ron Marshall, who joined Borders in January 2009, was the third person to occupy the chief executive’s seat in three years. Read more..
After rescuing the American International Group with a loan, federal officials rejected forcing trading partners to return $30 billion they had received from A.I.G. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
General Electric | GE | 16.29 | 16.39 | 16.03 | 16.30 | 76.9M |
Intel | INTC | 20.00 | 20.33 | 19.82 | 20.24 | 74.9M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 38.35 | 39.49 | 38.07 | 39.33 | 66.3M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 29.35 | 29.82 | 29.02 | 29.67 | 63.9M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 26.90 | 28.24 | 26.88 | 28.20 | 63.1M |
Apple | AAPL | 206.85 | 210.58 | 199.53 | 207.88 | 61.5M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 25.21 | 26.12 | 25.10 | 25.62 | 59M |
Pfizer | PFE | 18.78 | 19.09 | 18.66 | 19.00 | 54.6M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 22.89 | 23.26 | 22.76 | 23.15 | 51.8M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 65.66 | 66.06 | 65.00 | 65.54 | 35.7M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 29.99 | 30.20 | 29.50 | 29.87 | 35M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 23.90 | 24.05 | 23.54 | 23.86 | 28.8M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 47.08 | 48.32 | 46.87 | 48.04 | 28.4M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 54.10 | 54.14 | 53.15 | 53.90 | 24.1M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 15.63 | 16.09 | 15.58 | 15.85 | 20.4M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 73.28 | 73.28 | 69.91 | 71.36 | 19.9M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 49.77 | 49.77 | 48.51 | 49.45 | 18M |
Merck | MRK | 38.49 | 38.78 | 37.96 | 38.64 | 17.5M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 29.56 | 29.81 | 29.01 | 29.32 | 16.1M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 50.43 | 51.04 | 48.99 | 49.81 | 15.8M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 60.46 | 60.98 | 59.95 | 60.81 | 15.2M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 62.78 | 63.72 | 62.70 | 63.44 | 15M |
Amazon | AMZN | 121.03 | 123.33 | 118.80 | 122.75 | 14.8M |
Boeing | BA | 58.84 | 62.08 | 58.83 | 61.93 | 14.8M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 32.34 | 33.53 | 32.11 | 33.24 | 14.4M |
Chevron | CVX | 73.94 | 74.36 | 73.13 | 73.70 | 13.4M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 53.52 | 53.77 | 53.10 | 53.40 | 13.2M |
Home Depot | HD | 27.62 | 27.92 | 27.49 | 27.84 | 12.8M |
Altria | MO | 19.97 | 20.05 | 19.83 | 19.99 | 12.5M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 24.28 | 24.41 | 24.08 | 24.30 | 12.4M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 54.00 | 54.66 | 53.70 | 54.51 | 10.2M |
Amgen | AMGN | 56.35 | 57.88 | 56.35 | 57.74 | 9.7M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 65.46 | 66.29 | 64.82 | 65.70 | 9.69M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 125.82 | 126.96 | 125.04 | 126.33 | 8.72M |
McDonald's | MCD | 63.67 | 64.00 | 63.30 | 63.73 | 8.08M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 541.27 | 547.65 | 535.31 | 542.10 | 7.92M |
United Technologies | UTX | 67.26 | 67.85 | 66.50 | 67.61 | 7.69M |
Pepsico | PEP | 60.05 | 60.39 | 59.60 | 60.29 | 6.15M |
3M | MMM | 81.33 | 82.84 | 81.01 | 82.30 | 5.07M |
Visa | V | 80.88 | 84.13 | 80.61 | 83.91 | 4.83M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 64.05 | 64.05 | 63.00 | 63.81 | 3.99M |
Exchange Rates of January 27, 2010
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 89.950 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.011 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.064 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.940 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.050 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.952 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 6.828 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.146 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 126.150 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.008 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.867 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.154 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.566 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.639 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.492 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.670 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.472 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.679 EUR |
Euro | Chinese Yuan | 1 EUR = 9.573 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.104 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.687 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.456 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.241 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.806 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.182 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.846 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.167 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.857 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.805 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.554 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.720 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.581 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 1.698 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.589 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.953 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.050 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.940 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.064 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 AUD = 6.110 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.164 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 0.987 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.014 CAD |
Canadian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 CAD = 6.411 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.156 CAD |
Swiss Franc | Chinese Yuan | 1 CHF = 6.501 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.154 CHF |
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