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1259.78 +0.1 +13.0 2666.93 +0.2 +17.5
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S&P 500 Industry Group Snapshot Daily
Energy Equipment & Svcs Construction Materials Diversified Consumer Svcs Auto Components
Construction & Engineerng Commercial Banks
Thrifts & Mtge Finance Household Products Capital Markets Textiles & Apparel
% Chg 1.95 1.89 1.28 0.86 0.85
–0.38 –0.48 –0.50 –0.64 –0.81
International Stock Markets Americas
Close
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 J F M A M J
Company 3M
Alcoa
AmExp AT&T BoA
Boeing
Caterpillar Chevron
Dow Jones 30 Industrials YTD
Close 86.76
15.13 42.86 29.31 13.31
65.05 93.78 91.37
Cisco Systems 20.25 Coca-Cola DuPont
65.45 50.02
Exxon Mobil 73.37 GE
Home Depot 34.89 HP
18.27 42.32
Daily % Chg
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–0.1 –0.3 –0.6 0.2
Other Measures Index
% Chg 4.9
–6.1 5.8 4.6
–11.6 20.2 64.6 18.7
–0.5 –15.4 0.1 0.4
14.8 48.6 7.6
20.8 20.6
–17.8 Close
DJ Total Stock Market Index 13,317.85 Russell 2000
790.26
Post-Bloomberg DC Area Index 215.60 CBOE Volatility (VIX)
17.28 J A S O N D
Company IBM
Intel J&J
JPMorgCh Kraft Foods McDonald's Merck
Microsoft P&G Co Pfizer
Travelers
United Tech Verizon
Wal-Mart
Close 146.52
20.94 62.13 42.36 31.56 76.99 36.21 27.97 64.40 17.60 55.59 79.10 35.58 54.08
Walt Disney 37.60
Daily % Chg 0.2 0.1
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2.6
–3.5 1.7
16.1 23.3 –0.9 –8.2 6.2
–3.2 11.5 14.0 14.9 1.2
16.6
Interest Rates Consumer Rates
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–20.3
Money market funds 6-Month CDs 1-Year CDs 5-Year CDs New car loan Home-equity loan
0.71 0.79 0.96 2.06 5.35 7.14
0.30% 0.25% 3.25%
Bank Prime Federal Funds LIBOR 3-Month
30-Year fixed mortgage 15-Year fixed mortgage 1-Year ARM
3.10% 4.36% 5.02%
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Australia (ASX 200) China (CSI 300) Hong Kong (Hang Seng) Japan (Nikkei)
4775.20 3061.83
22,969.30 10,344.54
Cross Currency Rates US $
EU €
US $ per EU € per
Japan ¥ per Britain £ per Brazil R$ per
Canada $ per Mexico $ per
0.7563 81.6700 108.0000
0.6452 0.8531 0.0079 1.6788
1.0009 1.3236 0.0123 12.3698 16.3554 0.1510
2.2184 0.0206 Japan ¥
1.3224 0.0122 0.0093
0.0 0.6 1.5 0.5
Britain £ 1.5500 0.5954
Brazil R$ Canada $ Mexico $ 0.9991 0.0809
1.1722 0.4508 0.7555 0.0611 126.5800 48.6915 81.5900 6.6020 0.3841
2.6031 1.5514 0.5960 19.1734
68,952.42 13,449.17 38,230.20
280.63
3890.65 6995.47 5996.36
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Commodities Futures
Copper Corn
Crude Oil Gold
Natural Gas
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Daily % Chg
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Coffee (COFF.L) Copper (COPA.L) Corn (CORN.L) Cotton (COTN.L) Crude Oil (CRUD.L) Gasoline (UGAS.L) Gold (BULL.L)
Natural Gas (NGAS.L) Silver (SLVR.L)
1.5 1.0 1.9
–1.6 0.3
–1.1 2.4 3.5 4.7
Gainers and Losers from the S&P 1500 Index Gainers
Daily Close % Chg
Technitrol Inc RightNow Tech Hanmi Financial
$5.45 25.0 $23.51 18.8 $1.20 8.1
BJ's Wholesale Club $47.62 7.1 American Vanguard Zale Corp
$8.45 6.6 $4.96 6.4
Sears Holdings Corp $74.49 6.4 Cincinnati Bell Hutchinson Tech StarTek
Intrepid Potash Inc Robbins & Myers
$2.74 5.8 $3.72 5.1 $5.54 4.7 $36.62 4.5 $36.15 4.5
RudolphTechnologies $8.52 4.0 Amedisys Inc Lindsay Corp
$33.70 3.8 $61.16 3.6
0.6446 0.0522 1.6783 0.1357 0.0809
7.3680 12.3591
Riverbed Technology $35.38 3.5 Forestar Group Inc Arqule
Consol Energy Cohu
10-year note Yield:
5-year note Yield:
3.35 2.03
4:30 p.m. New York time.
$19.75 3.5 $6.07 3.4 $48.69 3.4 $17.06 3.3
Losers Cambrex
Standex Intl Corp
Daily Close % Chg
UnitedCommunityBank $2.14 –6.1 LCA-Vision Stein Mart
$5.37 –7.9 $5.44 –5.2
$9.57 –4.3 $31.35 –2.9
American Intl Group $57.27 –2.8 Bank Mutual Corp M/I Homes Penn VA
Boston Private Fin Coinstar
Medifast Inc AZZ Inc
Stratasys Inc
Petroquest Energy Enzo Biochem Daktronics
KendleInternational Sonic Corp
GulfIslandFabricatn
2-year note Yield:
6-month bill Yield:
0.63 0.19
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 Offered Rate. Consumer rates are from Bankrate. All figures as of
$4.87 –2.8 $15.77 –2.8 $17.53 –2.8 $6.67 –2.8 $56.33 –2.8 $29.25 –2.7 $39.94 –2.5 $32.39 –2.5 $7.37 –2.5 $5.48 –2.5 $16.02 –2.4 $11.17 –2.4 $10.12 –2.4 $29.32 –2.4
Treasury Performance Over Past Three Months
Orange Juice Silver
Soybeans Sugar Wheat
$700
Daily Close % Chg
$1.7050 $30.68
$13.6600 $0.3383 $7.9925
day $1000
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month $1300
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Company seeks new capital after reportedly spurning Google offer
BY ADAM SATARIANO ANDMICHAEL TSANG
Groupon, the online-coupon
site that reportedly spurned a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google this month, has filed to raise as much as $950 million fromthe sale ofpreferredshares. The Chicago-based company
amendedits certificateof incorpo- ration, allowing it to issue about 30.1 million shares of Series G preferredstockat aprice of$31.59 a share, according to a filing earli- er this month with the state of Delaware. The financing would value
Groupon at as much as $7.8 bil- lion, exceeding Google’s reported offer, according to VCExperts, a Web site that offers data and anal- ysis for venture capitalists and private equity investors.
Andrew Mason, Groupon’s
chief executive,wrote in a Twitter message Tuesday that his compa- ny was in the process of complet- ing a new round of financing. A company spokeswoman declined to commentWednesday. Groupon is raisingmoney as it
considers an initial public offer- ing. Lastweek, Groupon hired Ja- son Child, Amazon’s former vice president of finance, tobe its chief financial officer. In April, Groupon announced
that it raised $135million froman investment group led by Digital Sky Technologies. The investment inApril gaveGroupon a valuation of about$1.3 billion. “They’ll move into more new
markets, and that either means buying an existing company, which they’ve done in Europe, or establishing the infrastructure they need on the ground, which would mean hiring people,” said Greg Sterling, an analyst at the Internet2Go advisory service in SanFrancisco. Sterling, who said last week that he expected Groupon to file
for an initial public offering next year, now says the funds raised couldpushthat backuntil 2012. “Ultimately, they need to go
public unless somebody’s going to come forward with a super mas- sive offer,”he said. Founded in 2008, Groupon of-
fers daily group discounts on res- taurants, theme parks, clothes, manicures and other consumer items in
300markets.The compa- ny hasmore than 35million regis- tered users and a staff of 3,000 people,most of theminsales. Groupon is trying to get a big-
gerpieceof theU.S. local-advertis- ingmarket,whichmay reach$133 billion this year, according to con- sulting firm BIA/Kelsey in Chan- tilly. LivingSocial,Groupon’sbiggest
rival, announced a $175 million investment from Amazon this month that valued the District- based firm at roughly $1 billion. (LivingSocial founder and chief executive Tim O’Shaughnessy is the son-in-lawofWashingtonPost
Co.ChairmanDonaldE.Graham.) —BloombergNews
Arrest in securities fraud probe
Government crackdown targets insider secrets peddled as research
BY LARRY NEUMEISTER
newyork—ACaliforniawoman was arrested on securities fraud charges in an ongoing federal crackdownonpeoplewhoillegally feed inside information about publicly held companies and pass it off as research, federal authori- ties announcedWednesday. Winifred Jiau, 43, was arrested
Tuesday at her Fremont, Calif., home andwas held for aWednes- day appearance infederal court in San Francisco, according to a re- lease from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara inManhattan. It was not immediately clearwhowouldrep- resenther incourt. Jiau was charged with securi-
ties fraud and conspiracy to com- mit securities fraud for accepting more than $200,000 over a two- year period from a networking firmthat promises to provide “in- stitutional money managers and
analystswithmarket intelligence” througha“globaladvisoryteamof experts,”Bharara said. According to prosecutors, Jiau
provided detailed financial earn- ings information about multiple publicly traded companies, in- cluding Marvell Technology GroupandNvidia. Bharara said Jiau in May 2008
told two portfolio managers at separate hedge funds about Mar- vell’s quarterly revenues, gross margins and earnings prior to the earnings statements, and did so againthreemonths later. Authorities saidthatduringthe
conversations, several of which were recorded by one of the hedge fund managers, she made clear that she received the inside infor- mationfromaMarvell employee. As a result of the information,
oneof thehedge fundsmademore than $820,000 trading inMarvell securities,prosecutors said. The latest arrest is part of a
widening probe targeting those in the financial services industry who glean secrets from public companies and share them as re- search. Several arrests earlier this
month stemmed from informa- tionthatcamefromPrimaryGlob- alResearch,afirmbasedinMoun- tain View, Calif., that advertised consultingservices toinvestorson industrytrends, issuesandregula- tions, authorities said. Prosecutors several weeks ago
charged an executive at the firm and three “expert consultants” withconspiracy. The latest investigation grew
from what Bharara last year de- scribed as the largest hedge fund insider-trading case in history. That probe resulted in charges against 23 people, alleging that they enabled more than $50 mil- lioninillegalprofits. Arrests in that case included
Raj Rajaratam, a onetime billion- aire hedge fund founder who has insisted that he onlymade trades basedonpubliclyknowninforma- tion.Heisfreeon$100millionbail while awaiting trial. Bharara said investigators for
the first time made extensive use of wiretaps in the insider trading probe, a tactic normally reserved for organized crime and drug in- vestigations.
—AssociatedPress
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