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…
Paul Ausick U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following a string of solid earnings reports yesterday and after markets closed last night. As we note below, earnings results were more mixed today, but…
ThinkstockBy the end of this week, AirlineFinancials.com LLC is projecting the seven largest US airlines will have collectively reported $152 million in profits from $33.3 billion in revenue for the 4th quarter.…
The week ahead will be the official flood gate opening for earnings season. We have a very large portion of the S&P 500 Index reporting fourth-quarter earnings, and we have many Dow Jones…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far from Wall St. research calls this Thursday: ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) cut to Sell at UBS but raised…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall St. research firms this Tuesday. Ameriprise Financial Inc. (NYSE: AMP) cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse. AutoZone…
courtesy Boeing Co.If all that Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) had to do was build and sell airplanes, 2012 would go down as the biggest success ever. The company is expected to have…
courtesy Boeing Co.Amidst the effort of US Airways Group Inc. (NYSE: LCC) to buy AMR, the parent of American Airlines, out of Chapter 11 and Delta Air Line Inc.’s (NYSE: DAL) purchase…
Guillaume Paumier / Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-3.0Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) was the No. 1 company on the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the 50 Best Places to Work for 2013. This…
