Financial news on October 30, 2007
Business and Financial news
Robert L. Nardelli, Chrysler’s new chief who earlier ran Home Depot, spoke about the auto industry in terms that suggested he was still in a home-improvement state of mind. Read more..
Bill Gates has a Facebook page, or at least humorist Jenny Lyn Bader imagines he does. Read more..
Dubai World, the ports operator, agreed to buy Labroy Marine of Singapore for 2.4 billion Singapore dollars ($1.7 billion) to add shipyards and cargo vessels to its maritime assets. Dubai Drydocks World, a unit of the state-run holding company, wi... Read more..
Claiming that Chinese steelmakers have dumped their products at below-cost prices, European steelmakers have asked the European Commission to impose tariffs. Read more..
Corporations have made India a laboratory for extending modern technological conveniences to the world’s poor. Read more..
It’s not just your imagination. Air travel really has become smoother in the lull after the summer and before the start of holiday travel season at Thanksgiving. Read more..
Drug and medical device makers will not be forced to disclose the results of clinical trials on some products that never reached the marketplace. Read more..
Nearly 3,000 colleges now offer classes in entrepreneurship, up tenfold in the last 20 years. Read more..
While the bank predicted that it would make a profit in the fourth quarter, analysts were concerned about the likelihood of additional write-downs. Read more..
Stock Markets
Values are reported in US Dollars
Stock | Ticker symbol | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
Microsoft | MSFT | 34.37 | 35.59 | 34.35 | 35.57 | 107M |
Intel | INTC | 26.11 | 26.37 | 26.10 | 26.27 | 41.4M |
Cisco Systems | CSCO | 32.26 | 32.95 | 32.13 | 32.61 | 40M |
Comcast | CMCSA | 20.76 | 21.47 | 20.76 | 20.90 | 36.7M |
Apple | AAPL | 186.18 | 189.37 | 184.73 | 187.00 | 33.6M |
Pfizer | PFE | 24.49 | 24.75 | 24.35 | 24.45 | 31.1M |
General Electric | GE | 40.49 | 40.65 | 40.31 | 40.48 | 25.9M |
Procter & Gamble | PG | 69.58 | 69.90 | 67.90 | 68.95 | 25.8M |
Oracle Corp. | ORCL | 21.65 | 21.74 | 21.48 | 21.63 | 25.7M |
ExxonMobil | XOM | 92.93 | 93.19 | 90.76 | 91.14 | 20.5M |
Home Depot | HD | 31.50 | 31.75 | 31.28 | 31.46 | 18.7M |
AT&T Inc. | T | 41.67 | 41.75 | 41.37 | 41.41 | 18.2M |
Wal-Mart Stores | WMT | 44.74 | 45.85 | 44.69 | 45.37 | 16.4M |
ConocoPhillips | COP | 83.80 | 83.83 | 82.45 | 82.72 | 16.4M |
Alphabet | GOOGL | 677.51 | 699.91 | 677.51 | 694.77 | 13.8M |
Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 54.25 | 54.73 | 54.13 | 54.65 | 13.2M |
JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 46.40 | 46.89 | 46.05 | 46.56 | 13.1M |
Wells Fargo & Co. | WFC | 34.01 | 34.25 | 33.85 | 34.00 | 12.8M |
Verizon Communications | VZ | 45.94 | 46.00 | 45.10 | 45.36 | 11.7M |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | BMY | 29.67 | 30.22 | 29.55 | 30.02 | 11.1M |
Merck | MRK | 57.80 | 58.15 | 57.59 | 57.86 | 10.2M |
Chevron | CVX | 91.75 | 91.95 | 89.69 | 90.08 | 9.63M |
Schlumberger | SLB | 99.02 | 99.74 | 95.64 | 95.99 | 9.19M |
Amgen | AMGN | 56.33 | 57.12 | 56.25 | 57.06 | 8.64M |
HP Inc. | HPQ | 51.64 | 51.97 | 51.50 | 51.59 | 8.58M |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 64.80 | 65.27 | 64.75 | 64.82 | 7.7M |
Boeing | BA | 97.25 | 98.60 | 97.00 | 97.33 | 7.54M |
Altria | MO | 72.85 | 73.21 | 72.70 | 72.76 | 7.26M |
Coca-Cola | KO | 61.83 | 62.15 | 61.35 | 61.73 | 6.87M |
Gilead Sciences | GILD | 46.00 | 46.00 | 45.17 | 45.48 | 5.74M |
Amazon | AMZN | 89.67 | 90.65 | 88.05 | 88.24 | 5.41M |
UnitedHealth Group | UNH | 47.77 | 48.20 | 47.40 | 47.90 | 5.11M |
Pepsico | PEP | 73.30 | 74.32 | 73.10 | 73.84 | 4.96M |
Walt Disney & Co. | DIS | 34.48 | 34.57 | 34.25 | 34.29 | 4.89M |
McDonald's | MCD | 58.83 | 59.51 | 58.62 | 59.18 | 4.55M |
International Business Machines | IBM | 114.50 | 114.90 | 113.75 | 114.12 | 4.02M |
United Technologies | UTX | 75.55 | 76.49 | 75.39 | 75.82 | 3.75M |
3M | MMM | 85.95 | 86.23 | 85.32 | 85.79 | 2.79M |
Union Pacific | UNP | 127.70 | 128.35 | 126.01 | 126.21 | 1.57M |
Berkshire Hathaway | BRK.B | 4277.00 | 4300.00 | 4269.00 | 4290.00 | 9.9K |
Exchange Rates of October 30, 2007
Currencies | Exchange Rates | ||
US Dollar | Japanese Yen | 1 USD = 114.640 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.009 USD |
US Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 USD = 0.953 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.050 USD |
US Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 USD = 1.158 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.864 USD |
US Dollar | Chinese Yuan | 1 USD = 7.474 CNY | 1 CNY = 0.134 USD |
Euro | Japanese Yen | 1 EUR = 165.550 JPY | 1 JPY = 0.006 EUR |
Euro | Pound Sterling | 1 EUR = 0.698 GBP | 1 GBP = 1.432 EUR |
Euro | Australian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.571 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.636 EUR |
Euro | Canadian Dollar | 1 EUR = 1.376 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.727 EUR |
Euro | Swiss Franc | 1 EUR = 1.672 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.598 EUR |
Japanese Yen | Pound Sterling | 1 JPY = 0.422 GBP | 1 GBP = 2.372 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Australian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.949 AUD | 1 AUD = 1.054 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Canadian Dollar | 1 JPY = 0.831 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.204 JPY |
Japanese Yen | Swiss Franc | 1 JPY = 1.010 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.990 JPY |
Pound Sterling | Australian Dollar | 1 GBP = 2.250 AUD | 1 AUD = 0.444 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Canadian Dollar | 1 GBP = 1.970 CAD | 1 CAD = 0.508 GBP |
Pound Sterling | Swiss Franc | 1 GBP = 2.394 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.418 GBP |
Australian Dollar | Canadian Dollar | 1 AUD = 0.875 CAD | 1 CAD = 1.143 AUD |
Australian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 AUD = 1.063 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.940 AUD |
Canadian Dollar | Swiss Franc | 1 CAD = 1.215 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.823 CAD |
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