Market Watch Dow Jones Gains and Nasdaq Mixed on April 4 2005
Market data shows Dow Jones up 16.84 to ten thousand four hundred twenty one point fourteen while Nasdaq Composite sits near two thousand and ninety nine. S and P 500 at one thousand one hundred seventy six point twelve with Russell 2000 around six hundred thirteen.76. Trading volume tallies at over two billion shares. Net advancers and decliners appear mixed across Nasdaq and NYSE with highs and lows slightly changing.
Medtronic Executive Named New UL President and CEO
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. named Keith E. Williams, 52, as its new president and chief executive, to take over in mid May. Williams was Medtronic Inc. senior vice president and previously led quality and regulatory affairs for the Minnesota based medical device maker. He succeeds Lor ing Knoblauch, who retired last August due to prostate cancer after three years on the job.
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ChevronTexaco to Buy Unocal for About Seventeen Billion
ChevronTexaco Corp. and Unocal Corp. announce a stock and cash deal valued at about $17 billion to create a larger energy supplier in Asia. The merged firm would have annual sales near $163 billion, still trailing Exxon Mobil, and would assume $1.6 billion in debt while selling about $2 billion in assets.
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Wal-Mart tops Fortune 500 as oil, metals profits soar
Wal-Mart Stores held the No. 1 spot in Fortune 500 for the fourth year with 2004 sales above 288.189 billion. Exxon Mobil remained No. 2 with 270.772 billion in sales and 25.3 billion in earnings, while metal and oil producers posted sharp gains as commodity prices rose.
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Banks accused of discrimination in mortgage lending
In ner City Press Fair Finance Watch accuses Citigroup and Bank of America of charging higher mortgage rates to black and Hispanic buyers than whites. Banks defend their data as flawed and their policies fair.
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