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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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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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American Companies with the Most Customers

Posted: April 30, 2012 at 6:37 am

Last week, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced that it sold 35.1 million iPhones worldwide in the latest quarter. The figure is large, but not extraordinary. Some consumer products and consumer electronics ...
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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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A Tempered Outlook of Key Earnings Expectations (AA, SNDK, CSCO, AAPL, GE, JPM, BAC, WFC, WMT, LUV, IBM, T, VZ, BAC, MCD, AAPL)

Posted: April 9, 2012 at 8:45 am

The first quarter earnings reports will start to dribble out this week and expectations have been tempered in recent trading days ahead of Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) on Tuesday afternoon.  ...
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Q1-2012 Earnings Season Outlook, Lowered Expectations (AA, SNDK, CSCO, GE, JPM, WMT, LUV, IBM, T, VZ, BAC, MCD, AAPL)

Posted: April 5, 2012 at 11:00 am

Earnings season is almost upon us for the first quarter of 2012.  There is some growing caution over company expectations on the heels of a massive rally where the DJIA ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (IBM, MCD, LUV, SNDK, BX, TISI, MIND, MON, AYI, ANGO, PSMT, STZ, PIR, LEDS, CBLI, THTI, CLNT)

Posted: April 4, 2012 at 4:08 pm

Markets opened lower this morning and didn’t recover. The ISM services index came in lower than expected (our coverage here) and the EIA report on crude oil inventories pushed crude ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AIG, BV, BIIB, BX, CIEN, IBM, MCD, NVO, SNDK, SON, LUV, SBUX, SYY, TLAB, UAL)

Posted: April 4, 2012 at 8:24 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday. American International Group (NYSE: AIG) Raised to Outperform at Bernstein. Bazaarvoice ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMZN, BIP, XLS, GM, GPRN, ICE, LLTC, PRXL, PKD, PVH, GOLD, RIO, LUV, SHW, TXN)

Posted: April 2, 2012 at 8:15 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday. Some of these calls are moving the shares this morning. Amazon.com, ...
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JCPenney’s Shameless Board Rewards Departing CEO

Posted: April 2, 2012 at 6:38 am

JCPenney’s (NYSE: JCP) former chief executive, Myron E. Ullman, III, was pushed out of the company. As a reward for an awful performance in his job, the the retailer’s board gave ...
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American Air Travel and Carrier Profits

Posted: March 14, 2012 at 6:46 am

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics reported that 631 million people boarded domestic flights last year. Jet fuel costs were relatively low in 2011. That is no longer true. Americans who ...
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Media Digest (3/14/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT

Posted: March 14, 2012 at 6:45 am

Most U.S. banks do well on Fed stress tests, but Citigroup (NYSE: C) does poorly. (Reuters) The prime minister of China says the government will speed up economic reforms to cushion ...
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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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Can Transport Stocks Deliver On Dow Theory? (UAL, LUV, CSX, NSC, JBHT, LSTR, NAT, FRO)

Posted: March 1, 2012 at 2:50 pm

The Dow Jones Transportation Average has risen just 7.7% in the past five years, and barely 3% in the past 12 months. Not exciting, that's for sure, except for the ...
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