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Energy
Airline Stocks Become Reverse Proxy For Oil Again
The first week of May, crude moved around just over $50. Today it traded just above $69, a 38% increase over that period. Airline stocks have reacted badly to the news. No…
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Investing
Media Digest 6/9/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: China must balance growth and reducing greenhouse gases. Reuters: The Supreme Court has delayed Chrysler’s Chapter 11. Reuters: The US will allow 10 banks to repay TARP funds. Reuters: The Boston…
4:26am ET
Transportation
The New Case For Airline Bankruptcies: $9 Billion Annual Loss
The International Air Transport Association has doubled its estimates for global airline industry losses compared to its figure of three months ago. That presages another round of carrier bankruptcies similar to these in…
3:00am ET
Investing
Media Digest 6/8/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: 3D is bringing a new dimension to the computer world. Reuters: The Supreme Court was asked to block Chrysler sale. Reuters: China bankers called for US sales of yuan bonds. Reuters: …
8:11pm ET
Banking, finance, and taxes
The Ten Ways Twitter Will Permanently Change American Business
Micro-blogging platform Twitter has 32 million users, which is an increase from about 2 million a year ago, according to research mentioned in The Wall Street Journal. Some Internet measurement services show…
8:46pm ET
Investing
Ten Women Who Should Be Big Company CEOs
Twelve of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. Just twelve. Over the next year, that number is likely to go up considerably because of a confluence of economic and financial factors that…
8:12am ET
Investing
Airlines Hit By UBS & Swine Flu (CAL, AMR, LCC, UAUA, XJT, CPA)
Airlines are getting hit hard this morning before the open on two issues: swine flu and an analyst downgrade. UBS has downgraded the US legacy airline sector in a broad call and…
8:14am ET
Transportation
AMR & Southwest Battle For Hindenburg Earnings (LUV, AMR)
Southwest Airlines Co, (NYSE: LUV) is getting to see some selling this morning after its earnings report. Actually, that is after its losses. Southwest is not used to this and you can’t…
2:56am ET
Media
Media Digest 4/16/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, Obama vowed to overhaul the tax code. Reuters reports that GM (GM) is working on a plan to cut dealers at an accelerated pace. Reuters writes that China’s first…
8:39pm ET
Investing
Twelve Major Brands That Will Disappear
A number of well-known brands disappeared in the last year in large part due to economic forces. Many of them were in the retail industry, led by Circuit City. ATA and Aloha…
5:27am ET
Transportation
AMR’s Serious Labor Troubles
AMR Corp. (NYSE:AMR) and unions representing pilots, flight attendants and maintenance workers at its American Airlines subsidiary are locked in labor negotiations that are growing increasingly contentious. Shareholders should be extremely worried.…
5:01am ET
Investing
Major Earnings Estimates, A Bar Set Too Low (INTC, AMR, LUV, BTU, GOOG, GCI, HOG, GE)
We have already seen at least one major upside surprise in earnings season for the Q1-2009 period. But we have many major companies which are expected to report earnings this week that…
2:56am ET
Media
Media Digest 4/14/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTime, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Ebay’s (EBAY) shares are cheap by many measures but investors are avoiding the company, while Amazon’s (AMZN) are so expensive that investors are concerned. Reuters reports that the SEC…
3:02am ET
Media
Media Digest 4/3/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, Congress passed the Obama budget Reuters reports that cautious optimism greeted plans from the G-20 summit. Reuters reports that banks are considering buying toxic assets sold by other banks.…
3:07am ET
Media
Media Digest 3/27/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomerg
According to Reuters, the Obama financial reforms face a bumpy road. Reuters reports that the NY State Attorney General has subpoenaed AIG (AIG) over its CDS contracts. Reuters reports that Obama’s financial…