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Military
Another Reason To Fire Boeing’s CEO
W. James McNerney, Jr., Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) Chairman and CEO, has hung onto his job since July 2005. The company’s flagship Dreamliner has been delayed at least a half a dozen times…
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2:24pm ET
Investing
Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (C, HAL, GS, YHOO, IBM, JNJ, T, AXP, AAPL, AMGN, WFC, GE, DD, HON, MCD, SLB, LUV)
Next week may be short because of a holiday, but it is going to be a very busy week for earnings. We have tried to narrow the field down to the very…
1:34pm ET
Energy
Week’s Biggest Market Losers (FSLR)(MON)(HOG)
First Solar (NASDAQ: FLSR) fell 7% on concerns that the US government’s financial support of renewable energy will falter. The federal government’s move toward austerity makes it likely that this threat to earnings and…
4:22am ET
Media
Media Digest (4/7/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
The ECB is likely to raise rates and more may come this year (Reuters) Portugal sought aid from the EU as its ability to raise money faltered (Reuters) A top M&A lawyer…
12:08pm ET
Transportation
M&A Watch: Southwest & AirTran, Cracks Versus Merger (LUV, AAI)
Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) has taken a bit of a blow to its safety reputation after this last weekend. A few hundred flight cancellations are one thing, but a hole ripping…
Jon C. Ogg 10:00am ET
Investing
The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: April 5 The Companies With The Most Bad News
Note: The Flame Index scans thousands of news sites 24 hours per day and ranks companies getting the most negative press right now. The Flame Index Media Analysis Algorithm crunches the data…
4:04am ET
Media
Media Digest (4/5/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Republicans plan to cut $6 trillion from the budget over the next decade (Reuters) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) may be investigated by the FTC (Bloomberg) The FAA will begin inspection of most older…
4:04pm ET
Transportation
Southwest Air Cancellations: Another Black Eye For Boeing
Southwest (NYSE: LUV) canceled 300 flights today as it inspects 79 of its fleet of Boeing (NYSE: BA) 737s. Southwest made it clear that Boeing will be a part of the process.…
1:37pm ET
Transportation
A Three-Year Look At Airlines
Three-Year History of Ten Key Metrics for Major US Airlines: (For this analysis United/Continental data is pro forma) Operating Revenue (total of eight airlines) 2008 = $126.2 billion 2009 = $106.7 billion 2010 =…
3:22am ET
Transportation
The Drastic Impact To Airlines from Fuel Price Increases
By Robert Herbst You think you are paying more at the corner gas station? Checkout what the airline industry is looking at! If the current price of jet fuel was the average for the…
5:07am ET
Investing
A New Age Of Antitrust Activity
Antitrust regulators will get a great deal of exercise this spring. AT&T (NYSE: T) has announced it will buy T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom. Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S), the struggling wireless company, will object…
10:53am ET
Energy
Oil Prices Pose Challenge to Airline Traffic (UAL, AMR, DAL, LUV)
Just as passenger and freight traffic have begun to improve for the world’s airlines, rising crude oil prices have thrown a monkey wrench into the airlines’ hopes of profitability in 2011. The…
3:52pm ET
Investing
New Airline Risks: Global Strife & High Oil (LUV, AMR, UAL, DAL, LCC, FAA, RYAAY)
If there is one industry which reacts immediately to higher oil prices and to global unrest, it is the airline sector. These are technically not new risks but these two issues are…
10:03am ET
Investing
Ten American Companies With The Best News For 2011
24/7 Wall St. chose the ten most important pieces of news for major US corporations so far this year. Our evaluation was based on the history of the company and industry involved…
9:58am ET
Investing
The Top 5 Analyst Calls of the Week, or 6 (IRE, AIB, CELG, CCME, CSCO, GRMN, LUV)
Analyst calls are sometimes great and sometimes not. Each week we review the major analyst calls for those standout research calls that were above the grain or are outside of the pack. …