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…
courtesy Boeing Co.Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) reported this morning that traffic in November was down 1.5% year-over-year to 8.1 billion revenue passenger miles. A year ago the revenue passenger miles totaled…
ThinkstockThe long-standing reign of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude as the international benchmark for crude oil pricing has been eroding for a couple of years. Now, there is a virtual certainty that…
ThinkstockU.S. airlines are expected transport nearly 24 million passengers over the 2012 Thanksgiving holiday weekend, up by about 150,000 from last year’s holiday period. Planes should be flying at about 90% of…
ThinkstockUpdated throughout the day on the 24/7 Wall St. Wire: UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) will fire 10,000 workers. (various) Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) and the Justice Department may settle money…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning and really never got on track the entire day. The lower opening was likely a reaction to China’s weakest quarterly GDP growth…
Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) this morning reported an in-line profit in the third quarter, boosted in part to fewer negative fuel-hedging impacts. The Dallas-based company posted adjusted earnings per share (EPS)…
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