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When Will Low Oil Help Airlines Out? (UAL, DAL, LCC, LUV, JBLU)

Posted: May 23, 2012 at 2:53 pm

Oil is tanking behind Europe, commodity inventories are up, and refineries are running at very high historic levels.  And guess what, airplanes are full, fares are up, carriers are passing ...
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Airlines Have Best First Quarter Arrival Numbers, Ever

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 3:12 pm

Airlines as a group had their best on time arrival performance in the first quarter since the Transportation Department began to collect data in 1995. The news was particularly good ...
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Falling Oil Puts Airline Sector Up In First Class (UAL, DAL, LCC, LUV)

Posted: May 4, 2012 at 1:19 pm

Is the economy so weak that the summer and rest of 2012 will be punishing on the airline industry?  Apparently not.  Have you been to an airport and flown lately?  ...
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Does Delta Make Sense as an Oil Refiner?

Posted: May 1, 2012 at 8:04 am

A deal that first made it into public view less than a month ago has now been completed. Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL), through its wholly-owned Monroe Energy LLC ...
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Media Digest (4/26/2012) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 26, 2012 at 6:41 am

Markets are lifted by Fed comments that the economy is recovering and that it will keep rates low. (Reuters) Chrysler posts its best earnings since being partially taken over by ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (AAPL, JCP, MCD, WMT, BWLD, AXE, EW, JNPR, NSC, NFX, AN, CWEI, GLW, HOG, LAD, LCC, CAT, CNH, BA)

Posted: April 25, 2012 at 4:06 pm

Markets opened higher this morning, led by the Nasdaq which got a big boost from the strong report last night from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). The report from the US ...
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Airlines Post Gains on Fuel Hedges, Revenues Up Too (DAL, LCC, LUV, AAMRQ, UAL, JBLU, FAA)

Posted: April 25, 2012 at 1:24 pm

Two of the US’s largest airlines reported earnings today, Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) and US Airways Group Inc. (NYSE: LCC), and both showed a profit thanks to mark-to-market ...
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American Airlines and US Airways – Why They Will Fly Off Together

Posted: April 20, 2012 at 4:27 pm

Following several years of financial losses and industry under performance quarter-after-quarter; last November 29th, American Airlines (NYSE: AAR) joined the long list of previously bankrupt airlines. On the day of ...
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Media Digest (4/20/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 20, 2012 at 6:40 am

BRICs want more of a say in the International Monetary Fund before they make their next contributions. (Reuters) French president Nicolas Sarkozy almost certainly will be voted out of office, ...
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Media Digest (4/4/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 4, 2012 at 6:46 am

Apartment vacancy rates reach a 10-year low, according to Reis. (Reuters) Tom Glocer, the departing head of Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), makes $20 million. (Reuters) China’s premier, Wen Jiabao, says ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (4/2/2012) Pinnacle Air Chapter 11, Record Europe Unemployment

Posted: April 2, 2012 at 6:38 am

The unemployment rate of the eurozone reached 10.8% in February, up from 10.0% a year ago according to EuroStat. Unlike the in United States, the trend is in the wrong direction. ...
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American Airlines May Finally Be Sold

Posted: March 23, 2012 at 6:36 am

Bloomberg reports that US Airways (NYSE: LCC) has approached unsecured creditors of American Airlines parent AMR about buying the airline as its leaves bankruptcy. AMR management says it plans for the ...
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Media Digest (3/23/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 23, 2012 at 6:33 am

Members of Congress face new restrictions on insider trading. (Reuters) The UAW moves to organize a Volkswagen plant. (Reuters) A Brazilian oil regulator reports that the leak on a Chevron ...
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In Air France/KLM Results, a Foreshadowing of Airline Trouble

Posted: March 8, 2012 at 6:18 am

The International Air Transport Association (IATA), the global airline industry association, warned in its annual forecast that the economy could hurt earnings of carriers around the world in 2012, particularly ...
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AMR: Saving Corporate American One Bankruptcy at a Time

Posted: February 2, 2012 at 6:46 am

AMR, parent of American Air, wants to cut 13,000 jobs, lower pay for other workers, void airplane leases and cut creditor obligations. Delta (NYSE: DAL) and US Air (NYSE: LCC) ...
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