Financial news on May 30, 2007
Business and Financial news
The deal was valued at about $2.4 billion, Boeing’s largest sale in the former Soviet Union. Read more..
Madison Dearborn Partners will acquire the CDW Corporation, a leading online computer reseller, for $7.3 billion. Read more..
Europe’s farmers are beginning to grow crops that can be turned into fuels meant to produce fewer emissions than gas or oil. Read more..
The facts, according to the Department of Justice, about immigrants and prisons. Read more..
U.S. sanctions aim to squeeze Sudan’s economy by freezing its companies out of American financial institutions. Read more..
Campaign Spotlight. Read more..
An ambitious new type of pen-based computer system could bridge the gap between paper and the digital world. Read more..
Cosmetics advertising in India is offering the message that the modern Indian woman does not have to live with her dark skin. Read more..
If you’ve ever felt as though you can’t keep up with the pace of life, well, it could have been worse. You could have been a computer disk. Read more..
Tishman has joined with Lehman Brothers to buy Archstone-Smith Trust, the second-largest public apartment owner in terms of market cap and asset value, for $13.5 billion. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Intel | INTC | 22.07 | 22.30 | 21.85 | 22.08 | 58.3M |
Microsoft | MSFT | 30.55 | 31.13 | 30.51 | 31.11 | 57.4M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 25.69 | 26.40 | 25.60 | 26.39 | 55.9M |
Apple | AAPL | 114.30 | 118.88 | 113.53 | 118.77 | 52.8M |
Pfizer | PFE | 27.43 | 27.56 | 27.10 | 27.41 | 38.8M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 19.25 | 19.42 | 19.11 | 19.42 | 28.8M |
General Electric | GE | 37.19 | 37.75 | 37.16 | 37.73 | 27M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 81.98 | 84.10 | 81.96 | 84.00 | 26.5M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 40.23 | 41.00 | 40.23 | 40.98 | 20.3M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 75.00 | 77.48 | 74.91 | 77.30 | 17.1M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 46.63 | 47.15 | 46.47 | 47.12 | 16M |
Altria | MO | 71.31 | 71.49 | 70.91 | 71.49 | 15.4M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 27.03 | 27.50 | 26.83 | 27.47 | 15.4M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 42.91 | 43.84 | 42.88 | 43.82 | 15.1M |
Merck | MRK | 53.07 | 53.15 | 51.96 | 52.71 | 15M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 52.35 | 53.05 | 51.92 | 53.05 | 14.7M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 484.50 | 498.84 | 483.00 | 498.60 | 14.5M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 56.60 | 56.65 | 55.52 | 55.84 | 14.4M |
Amgen | AMGN | 54.53 | 55.35 | 54.50 | 55.26 | 12.6M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 35.36 | 35.98 | 35.27 | 35.91 | 12.3M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 45.20 | 45.70 | 45.15 | 45.67 | 11.3M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 63.05 | 63.36 | 62.76 | 63.22 | 10.9M |
Chevron | CVX | 80.65 | 82.29 | 80.16 | 82.25 | 10.8M |
Amazon | AMZN | 69.06 | 70.08 | 68.86 | 69.86 | 10.6M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 63.30 | 63.85 | 63.23 | 63.85 | 10.3M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 51.43 | 52.06 | 51.35 | 52.06 | 10.2M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 36.06 | 36.25 | 35.95 | 36.23 | 9.8M |
Home Depot | HD | 38.63 | 38.75 | 38.28 | 38.70 | 9.27M |
McDonald's | MCD | 50.43 | 50.52 | 49.79 | 50.23 | 8.19M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 105.40 | 107.10 | 105.21 | 106.93 | 7.4M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 77.59 | 79.91 | 77.49 | 79.91 | 6.8M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 29.83 | 30.12 | 29.79 | 30.12 | 6.79M |
Boeing | BA | 98.47 | 100.64 | 98.30 | 100.55 | 5.8M |
Pepsico | PEP | 68.20 | 68.76 | 68.06 | 68.57 | 5.65M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 54.33 | 54.90 | 54.23 | 54.57 | 4.27M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 81.83 | 82.70 | 80.78 | 82.26 | 4.24M |
3M | MMM | 87.30 | 87.95 | 86.88 | 87.93 | 3.61M |
United Technologies | UTX | 68.56 | 69.43 | 68.30 | 69.43 | 3.6M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 117.78 | 118.95 | 117.78 | 118.82 | 1.04M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 3625.00 | 3633.00 | 3618.00 | 3628.00 | 8.8K |
Exchange Rates of May 30, 2007
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 121.650 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.008 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 1.074 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.931 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.226 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.816 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7.646 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.131 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 163.360 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.006 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.680 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.471 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.630 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.613 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.442 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.693 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.646 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.608 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.416 GBP | 1 GBP = 2.406 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.997 AUD | 1 AUD = 1.003 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.882 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.133 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.007 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.993 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.399 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.417 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.122 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.471 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2.421 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.413 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.884 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.131 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 1.009 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.991 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1.141 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.877 CAD |
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