Financial news on April 29, 2010
Business and Financial news
With $1.74 billion raised, Amadeus IT Holding has completed the largest initial public offering in Western Europe since 2008, Bloomberg News reported. Read more..
How two brothers in Florida invented a razor and tried to take shelf space from Gillette and Schick. Read more..
José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, said that European Union officials were doing all they could to ensure that loans were soon provided to Greece. Read more..
When it comes to understanding U.S. sensibilities, Mats Lederhausen, the former McDonald’s wunderkind, has always been ahead of the curve. Now he is forging his own investment agenda. Read more..
Last week, White House officials quietly approached leading financial firms seeking formal letters of support for a Congressional overhaul of financial regulations. One Wall Street powerhouse was left off the list: Goldman Sachs. Read more..
Calamos Investments sold its Goldman Sachs holdings when the news of the civil fraud charges against the bank hit, fearing the stock was at best “dead money,” Nick Calamos told Reuters on Wednesday. Read more..
A top Irish finance official criticized the soaring borrowing costs many European governments are facing and played down any comparison of Ireland’s financial situation to that of Greece. Read more..
The Canadian pension fund is close to edging out four private equity firms by acquiring the port and shipping group Inchcape Shipping Services, The Financial Times reported. Read more..
The big American power company agreed to acquire Kentucky’s two largest utility companies from E.ON of Germany for $6.7 billion in cash. Read more..
With political pressure mounting, Senate Republicans relented on Wednesday and agreed to let Democrats open debate on legislation that would impose the most far-reaching overhaul of the nation’s financial regulatory system since the aftermath of the Depression. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
General Electric | GE | 19,04 | 19,49 | 19,03 | 19,49 | 70.1M |
Pfizer | PFE | 16,63 | 17,01 | 16,63 | 16,86 | 67.5M |
Intel | INTC | 23,33 | 23,51 | 23,30 | 23,49 | 59.1M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 30,93 | 31,43 | 30,67 | 31,00 | 52.7M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 18,84 | 20,09 | 18,84 | 20,00 | 48.1M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 68,45 | 69,66 | 68,24 | 68,66 | 47.2M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 27,10 | 27,64 | 27,10 | 27,53 | 41.9M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 43,89 | 44,33 | 43,60 | 44,00 | 36.5M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 32,79 | 33,40 | 32,73 | 33,23 | 31M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 72,27 | 73,99 | 71,30 | 73,15 | 28M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 62,28 | 62,97 | 60,83 | 62,20 | 27.3M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 26,08 | 26,30 | 25,94 | 26,14 | 25.6M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 25,28 | 25,93 | 25,00 | 25,37 | 20.7M |
Apple | AAPL | 263,02 | 270,00 | 262,01 | 268,64 | 20M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 52,61 | 53,00 | 52,55 | 52,88 | 19.5M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 50,51 | 51,13 | 50,34 | 50,75 | 19.3M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 25,99 | 26,14 | 25,71 | 25,97 | 18.6M |
Merck | MRK | 34,98 | 35,61 | 34,98 | 35,25 | 18.2M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 59,00 | 60,15 | 59,00 | 59,10 | 18M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 40,76 | 41,08 | 40,32 | 40,40 | 16.8M |
Home Depot | HD | 35,45 | 35,96 | 35,41 | 35,56 | 16.3M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 29,22 | 29,32 | 29,12 | 29,22 | 15.9M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 30,81 | 31,74 | 30,79 | 31,30 | 13.6M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 53,66 | 54,23 | 53,55 | 53,70 | 13.3M |
Chevron | CVX | 81,19 | 82,99 | 81,19 | 82,29 | 12.3M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 36,50 | 37,39 | 36,50 | 37,22 | 10.6M |
Altria | MO | 21,08 | 21,30 | 21,07 | 21,18 | 10.3M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 53,62 | 54,19 | 53,56 | 53,74 | 8.72M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 64,85 | 65,34 | 64,85 | 65,01 | 7.93M |
Pepsico | PEP | 64,95 | 65,50 | 64,83 | 65,20 | 7.71M |
McDonald's | MCD | 70,58 | 71,70 | 70,58 | 71,52 | 7.36M |
Visa | V | 93,77 | 94,60 | 92,10 | 92,82 | 7.35M |
Amazon | AMZN | 140,09 | 142,45 | 139,79 | 141,73 | 6.31M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 533,37 | 536,50 | 526,67 | 532,00 | 6.11M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 130,55 | 131,21 | 130,15 | 130,46 | 5.79M |
3M | MMM | 88,94 | 90,00 | 88,64 | 89,33 | 5.28M |
Boeing | BA | 73,00 | 74,00 | 72,67 | 73,79 | 5.2M |
United Technologies | UTX | 75,31 | 76,35 | 75,16 | 76,02 | 4.97M |
Amgen | AMGN | 58,38 | 59,05 | 58,07 | 58,59 | 4.34M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 77,71 | 78,14 | 77,64 | 78,09 | 4.33M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 76,87 | 78,09 | 76,37 | 77,65 | 3.55M |
Exchange Rates of April 29, 2010
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 94,020 JPY | 1 JPY = 0,011 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1,006 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,994 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1,083 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,923 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 6,826 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,147 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 124,510 JPY | 1 JPY = 0,008 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0,864 GBP | 1 GBP = 1,158 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1,428 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,700 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1,332 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,751 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1,434 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,697 EUR |
Euro | Chinese Yuan | 1 EUR = 9,044 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,111 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0,693 GBP | 1 GBP = 1,444 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1,144 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,874 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 1,069 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,936 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1,151 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,869 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1,653 AUD | 1 AUD = 0,605 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1,542 CAD | 1 CAD = 0,648 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 1,661 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,602 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Chinese Yuan | 1 GBP = 10,461 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,096 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0,933 CAD | 1 CAD = 1,072 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 1,004 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,996 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 AUD = 6,334 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,158 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1,076 CHF | 1 CHF = 0,929 CAD |
Canadian Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 CAD = 6,785 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,147 CAD |
Swiss Franc | Chinese Yuan | 1 CHF = 6,305 CNY | 1 CNY = 0,159 CHF |
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