Financial news on September 27, 2006
Business and Financial news
In all, 27,500 union workers on Delphi’s payroll have agreed to leave their jobs as the world’s largest auto parts maker prepares to close most of its factories. Read more..
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The judge said he gave Andrew Fastow a lighter sentence in part because he has been "persecuted" since Enron’s collapse. Read more..
Despite winning new support from European regulators, the German power company E.On was forced on Tuesday to raise its offer for the Spanish utility Endesa. Read more..
George A. Keyworth II and his family were victims of repeated attempts to use pretexting to gain their cellphone records. Read more..
Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are vying to be the first to create a new generation of chips with four processing cores. Read more..
The suit claims that the three companies illegally shared information on their way to scuttling Guidant’s agreement to sell itself to Johnson & Johnson. Read more..
The billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian contends he was shortchanged in the 1998 “merger of equals” between Chrysler and Daimler-Benz. Read more..
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Why isn’t spending on, say, surgery considered good for the economy? Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Intel | INTC | 20.06 | 20.75 | 20.05 | 20.39 | 132M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 27.18 | 27.47 | 27.12 | 27.44 | 66.2M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 23.31 | 23.48 | 23.12 | 23.35 | 37.4M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 18.08 | 18.19 | 17.90 | 17.93 | 34.1M |
Apple | AAPL | 77.17 | 77.47 | 75.82 | 76.41 | 28.9M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 37.89 | 37.95 | 36.40 | 36.78 | 27.6M |
General Electric | GE | 35.33 | 35.65 | 35.17 | 35.34 | 26.5M |
Pfizer | PFE | 28.25 | 28.50 | 28.21 | 28.41 | 23.9M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 66.68 | 67.43 | 66.14 | 67.13 | 23.4M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 33.29 | 33.58 | 32.37 | 32.57 | 22.7M |
Altria | MO | 76.10 | 77.55 | 76.01 | 77.29 | 22.3M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 59.00 | 59.55 | 58.09 | 59.10 | 20.2M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 35.40 | 35.75 | 35.15 | 35.39 | 15.9M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 49.06 | 49.76 | 49.04 | 49.50 | 15.7M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 59.00 | 60.73 | 58.86 | 60.55 | 14.9M |
Amgen | AMGN | 70.54 | 72.37 | 70.13 | 72.14 | 14.7M |
McDonald's | MCD | 39.43 | 40.06 | 39.43 | 39.82 | 14.5M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 30.91 | 31.46 | 30.90 | 31.04 | 13.2M |
Merck | MRK | 42.00 | 42.50 | 41.81 | 42.40 | 12.7M |
Chevron | CVX | 63.84 | 64.75 | 63.28 | 64.20 | 12.3M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 406.30 | 411.22 | 402.37 | 402.92 | 11.7M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 48.07 | 48.39 | 47.56 | 48.37 | 10.7M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 36.09 | 36.66 | 36.01 | 36.52 | 10.2M |
Home Depot | HD | 36.65 | 36.84 | 36.23 | 36.46 | 8.97M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 46.79 | 47.21 | 46.62 | 46.84 | 8.88M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 24.85 | 25.09 | 24.76 | 25.00 | 8.48M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 62.48 | 62.85 | 62.36 | 62.73 | 8.29M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 48.62 | 49.32 | 47.91 | 49.08 | 6.51M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 82.00 | 82.67 | 81.71 | 82.09 | 5.88M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 36.45 | 36.46 | 36.09 | 36.18 | 5.73M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 44.55 | 44.90 | 44.34 | 44.71 | 5.67M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 64.54 | 64.87 | 64.52 | 64.82 | 5.52M |
Amazon | AMZN | 32.28 | 32.46 | 31.93 | 32.33 | 5.47M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 66.89 | 67.39 | 66.16 | 67.33 | 4.66M |
Boeing | BA | 79.17 | 79.96 | 79.17 | 79.41 | 4.29M |
Pepsico | PEP | 65.20 | 65.99 | 65.16 | 65.91 | 4.22M |
3M | MMM | 74.85 | 74.97 | 74.35 | 74.65 | 3.38M |
United Technologies | UTX | 63.68 | 63.80 | 63.06 | 63.14 | 2.93M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 85.56 | 88.19 | 85.45 | 87.65 | 2.53M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 3140.00 | 3173.00 | 3137.00 | 3169.50 | 11.8K |
Exchange Rates of September 27, 2006
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 117.450 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.009 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.112 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.900 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.244 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.804 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7.905 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.127 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 149.190 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.007 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.672 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.487 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.690 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.592 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.412 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.708 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.580 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.633 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.450 GBP | 1 GBP = 2.220 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1.132 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.883 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.946 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.057 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.059 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.944 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.514 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.398 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.100 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.476 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2.350 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.426 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.835 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.198 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 0.934 CHF | 1 CHF = 1.070 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1.119 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.894 CAD |
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