Courtesy of Boeing Co.Investors with a long memory know that the airlines can be a risky place to put capital. The airline graveyard is littered with iconic names like Pan-Am, TWA, Eastern…
courtesy Boeing Co.Consumer Reports released its new ratings of the best and worst airlines. Virgin America was at the top of the list. Spirit Airlines Inc. (NASDAQ: SAVE) was at the bottom.…
ThinkstockLenovo Earnings The news about Hewlett-Packard Co.’s (NYSE: HPQ) earnings may have been better than expected, but they cannot compare nearly to PC maker rival Lenovo. For some reason it has managed…
Courtesy EADS/AirbusJ.D. Power & Associates 2013 released its North America Airline Satisfaction Study. U.S. Airways Group Inc. (NYSE: LCC) was at the bottom of the list. United, of United Continental Holdings Inc.…
courtesy Boeing Co.Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) is living up to what we expected last week. After Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) jumped the gun with a dividend declaration and new…
ThinkstockIt was not that long ago that we were calling on major DJIA companies to lift their dividends in a CNBC interview. One sector we called on to begin dividend payments was…
Investors love dividends. This one investing component has comprised a major portion of total returns through time. The trend in recent years has been for companies to pay dividends and keep raising…
IslandAir24/7 Wall St. is tracking daily features around the world of exchange traded funds (ETFs). This is an integral part of investing and personal finance, and there are often just as many…
courtesy Airbus S.A.The markets must be optimistic about both consumer and business spending, as well as the ongoing drop in oil prices. The stocks of almost every major airline reached 52-week highs…
Total U.S. online travel-related spending came to about $103 billion in 2012 according to the latest data from comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR). Air travel alone accounted for about two-thirds of all travel…
ThinkstockWhat are the biggest fears of the consumer with airlines? Outside of safety and crash issues, those fears are likely to be the price of tickets to fly and the cost of services.…
ThinkstockDo winter storms really need to be named storms? In all honesty, this is something that from the eyes and ears of a financial news analyst looks and sounds a lot like…
ThinkstockThe U.S. airline industry had one of the more turbulent decades in its history. In the past few years, the majority of the country’s largest carriers have merged with a competitor or…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning with the DJIA and the S&P 500 higher, and the Nasdaq lower, dragged down by concern over the earnings of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) (more…
courtesy Boeing Co.Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) reported fourth-quarter and full year 2012 results before markets opened this morning. For the quarter, the airlines posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of…
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