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Daily Stock Market Performance Index
Dow Jones Industrial Average
11,400 10,900 10,400 9900 9400
Nasdaq Composite Index
2600 2400 2200 2000
S&P 500 Index 1220
1170 1120 1070 1020
1134.28 –0.5 +1.7 2334.55 –0.6 +2.9 10,739.31
Close %Chg –0.2
Daily
%Chg +3.0
YTD
Industry Group Metals & Mining Electric Utilities Specialty Retail
S&P 500 Industry Group Snapshot Daily
Air Freight & Logistics Computers & Peripherals Commercial Banks Building Products Capital Markets
Electrnc Eqp, Instr, Comp Construction Materials
%Chg 1.41 0.91 0.47 0.47 0.44
–1.99 –2.06 –2.09 –2.09 –2.59
International Stock Markets Daily
Americas
Brazil (Bovespa) Canada (S&P/TSX Comp.) Mexico (Bolsa) Europe
Eurozone (DJ Stoxx 600) France (CAC 40) Germany (DAX) U.K. (FTSE 100)
Asia Pacific O N D J F M A M J
Company 3M
Alcoa
AmExp AT&T BoA
Boeing
Caterpillar Chevron
Exxon Mobil GE
Home Depot HP
Dow Jones 30 Industrials Daily
Close 86.63
11.70 42.79 28.59 13.42 63.90 76.18 79.25
Cisco Systems 21.67 Coca-Cola DuPont
58.23 44.62 61.45 16.50 30.88 39.55
%Chg %Chg 0.1
4.7 0.0
–0.1 –1.7 –0.5 –0.3 –0.6 0.1 0.2
–0.5 –0.1 –0.1 –0.1 –0.9
Other Measures Index
DJ Total Stock Market Index Russell 2000
Post-Bloomberg DC Area Index CBOE Volatility (VIX)
YTD 4.8
–27.4 5.6 2.0
–10.9 18.0 33.7 2.9
–9.5 2.2
32.5 –9.9 9.1 6.7
–23.2 Close
11,826.46 656.71 195.31 22.51
J A S
Company IBM
Intel J&J
JPMorgCh Kraft Foods McDonald's Merck
Microsoft P&G Co Pfizer
Travelers
United Tech Verizon
Wal-Mart Walt Disney
Close 132.57
19.01 61.97 39.94 31.31 75.13 36.96 24.61 61.79 17.22 52.33 70.58 32.39 53.82 33.99
Daily%Chg –0.5 –1.2 –0.8 0.7
%Chg %Chg 0.4
Daily
–0.7 0.0
–1.6 –1.0 –0.5 0.7
–2.1 0.4 0.5
–1.1 0.0 0.2 0.5
–1.5 YTD 1.3
–6.8 –3.8 –4.2 15.2 20.3 1.1
–19.3 1.9
–5.3 5.0 1.7
4.6 0.7 5.4
YTD%Chg 2.9 5.0 4.2 3.8
Australia (ASX 200) China (CSI 300) Hong Kong (Hang Seng) Japan (Nikkei)
4625.20 2857.48 22,047.71 9566.32
Cross Currency Rates EU €
US $ per EU € per
Japan ¥ per Britain £ per Brazil R$ per
Canada $ per Mexico $ per
0.7467
84.5400 0.6385 1.7188 1.0303
12.6326
Interest Rates Consumer Rates
Money market funds 6-Month CDs 1-Year CDs 5-Year CDs New car loan Home-equity loan
0.69 0.74 1.06 2.30 5.91 7.20
113.2200 0.8551 2.3018 1.3797
16.9162
0.2 0.3 0.2
–0.4
US$Brazil R$ Canada$Mexico $ 1.3392
Japan ¥ 0.0118 0.0088
0.0076 0.0203 0.0122 0.1490
Britain £ 1.5662 1.1695
132.4000
2.6920 1.6136
19.7841
0.5819 0.4345
49.1914 0.3716
0.5988 7.3510
0.9706 0.7248
82.0500 0.6197 1.6699
12.2610
0.0792 0.0591 6.6910 0.0505 0.1360 0.0816
Close
68,325.18 12,147.26 33,207.21
261.19
3735.05 6208.33 5551.91
%Chg 0.9
–0.2 –0.3
–1.4 –1.3 –1.1
–0.4
YTD%Chg –25%
–3.0% 0 +3.0%
Commodities Futures
Copper Corn
Crude Oil Gold
Natural Gas
$3.5585 $5.0500 $74.71
Close %Chg +2.4 0.0
Daily
Orange Juice Silver
$1290.50 $3.97
–0.3 +1.4 +1.2
0% +25%
Exchange-Traded (Ticker) %Chg Coffee (COFF.L) Copper (COPA.L) Corn (CORN.L) Cotton (COTN.L) Crude Oil (CRUD.L) Gasoline (UGAS.L) Gold (BULL.L)
–1.2 2.3
–1.4 0.9
–1.1 –2.5 1.2
Natural Gas (NGAS.L) Silver (SLVR.L)
Gainers TriQuint Semicon
THQ Inc CarMax
Progress Software Savient Pharm
National Fuel Gas Netflix
RTI Intl Metals
Spartan Motors Inc Sears Holdings Corp Alcoa
RF Micro Devices United Online Watsco
TitaniumMetalsCorp TradeStation Group Brightpoint Inc Analogic Corp Ciber
CF Industries
0.29% 0.25% 3.25%
Bank Prime Federal Funds LIBOR 3-Month
3.66% 3.82% 4.34%
10-year note Yield:
30-Year fixed mortgage 15-Year fixed mortgage 1-Year ARM
5-year note Yield:
2.56 1.32
4:30 p.m. New York time.
–1.0 2.0
Gainers and Losers from the S&P 1500 Index Daily
Close %Chg $8.76
$4.14
$26.16 $32.41 $21.85 $49.01 $156.93 $31.13 $4.43 $71.77 $11.70 $6.00 $5.50 $57.44 $19.08 $6.64 $6.91
$44.31 $2.92
$101.43
10.4 8.9 8.5 8.2 7.7
6.9 6.6 5.9 5.7 5.3 4.7 4.0 4.0 3.8 3.8 3.6 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.0
Losers Adobe Systems
Advanced Energy Ind Catalyst Health Sol Pinnacle Financial MKS Instruments Heartland Express
UnitedCommunityBank Spherion
Sonic Solutions Arctic Cat
Fairchild Semico New York Times Ultratech
Pericom Semicon Skechers USA Nara Bancorp Gannett CryoLife
Brooks Automation Biogen Idec
2-year note Yield:
6-month bill Yield:
0.42 0.18
Note:Bank prime is from 10 major banks. Federal Funds rate is the market rate,which can vary from the federal target rate.LIBOR is the London Interbank OfferedRate. Consumer rates are from Bankrate. All figures as of
Close %Chg $26.67 –19.0
Daily
$12.30 –13.4 $32.69 –11.8 $8.55 –11.2 $17.10 –10.0 $14.56 $2.20 $5.81 $8.29 $8.27 $8.73 $7.45
$16.36 $8.43 $21.73 $6.99 $12.36 $5.84 $6.12
$54.86 Treasury Performance Over Past Three Months
Value of $1000 invested for the past: Daily
Soybeans Sugar Wheat
$700 Data and graphics by Bloomberg
$1.6230 $21.04
$10.8850 $0.2431 $7.1975
day $1000
Close %Chg +1.6 +2.0 +0.8 +2.2 +0.2
Daily
month $1300
A23
–8.1 –7.2 –6.9 –6.9 –6.7 –6.5 –6.5 –6.4 –6.3 –6.3 –6.2 –6.2 –6.1 –6.0 –5.8
Boomingis
marc lore
diapers.com member since 05
turninga1.5%earlypay discount into over $750,000. Allbybuyinglotsoftoysand millions of diapers.
ForDiapers.com co-founder Marc Lore,Booming is making more moneyonhis money. Marc sellseverything from toys to baby food to,naturally,diapers.Supplying theneeds of more than half amillion parentsand counting.Marcand histeam purchase inventoryusing thePlumCardfromAmericanExpressOPEN,and
thebestpartisDiapers.com earnsanearly paydiscountonnearlyevery purchase.Which, asMarc foundout,can really pile up.Get your
businessBoomingatopen.com.
©2010AmericanExpress Company. Allrightsreserved.Pay your balance in full within 10 daysofthe statementclosingdateand geta1.5%discountonvirtually allpurchases made that month. Thediscountwill appearasacredit on thefollowing billing statement.
Visitplumcard.com fordetails.Diapers.com accumulated theearly paydiscountoverthe course of twoyears.
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