United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE:URI)

What Do United Rentals Earnings Tell Us About Spending on US Infrastructure?

Posted: April 18, 2019 at 1:20 pm

Share of construction equipment rental firm United Rentals Inc. (NYSE: URI) traded up about 7.6% Thursday morning following the company's first-quarter earnings announcement. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) came in ...
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Wednesday’s Biggest Winners and Losers in the S&P 500

Posted: December 12, 2018 at 4:07 pm

December 12, 2018: The S&P 500 closed up 0.6% at 2,651.36. The DJIA closed up 0.7% at 24,530.87. Separately, the Nasdaq closed up 1.0% at 7.098.31. Wednesday was a positive ...
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Will Tuesday’s Stock Market Carnage Already Be Forgotten About on Thursday?

Posted: December 5, 2018 at 10:35 am

Tuesday's major U.S. stock market selling went from bad to worse as buyers were merely absent ahead of the rare mid-week closure of the U.S. financial markets as a day ...
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Tuesday’s Biggest Winners and Losers in the S&P 500

Posted: December 4, 2018 at 4:02 pm

December 4, 2018: The S&P 500 closed down 3.2% at 2,700.39. The DJIA closed down 3.1% at 25,031.41. Separately, the Nasdaq closed down 3.8% at 7,158.43. Tuesday was a massively ...
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25 Stocks Down 20% That Could Be Steals

Posted: October 30, 2018 at 8:45 am

Now that 2018 has reminded investors just how volatile the stock market can be at times, it's important to look at the big picture. The selling pressure of October has ...
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Time to Buy 3 Industrials After Serious Earnings Weakness?

Posted: October 22, 2018 at 12:20 pm

Investors have known for years that equities and entire sectors can be quite volatile around each quarter's earnings reports. It turns out that the strength in the third-quarter earnings reporting ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: AT&T, Chipotle, eBay, Intel, Nucor, Occidental, Schlumberger, Snap, United Rentals and More

Posted: October 22, 2018 at 9:00 am

Stocks were indicated to open higher on Monday after a surge in China from intervention is offering further support, with income-tax changes pledged on Chinese media. Investors have seen lower ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Alphabet, Amex, Apple, Biogen, eBay, Ford, Microsoft, PPG, Roku, United Rentals, Valero and More

Posted: October 19, 2018 at 8:55 am

Stocks were indicated higher on Friday after another big drop on Thursday. That said, the gains are a fraction of what was lost and the mood of investors is to ...
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Thursday’s Biggest Winners an Losers in the S&P 500

Posted: October 18, 2018 at 4:03 pm

October 18, 2018: The S&P 500 closed down 1.4% at 2,769.21. The DJIA closed down 1.3% at 25,382.37. Separately, the Nasdaq closed down 2.1% at 7,485.14. Thursday was another bad ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: AMD, Apache, Gold Fields, Marvell, Micron, Oracle, Starbucks, Transocean, United Rentals, Walmart and More

Posted: September 18, 2018 at 9:15 am

Stocks were indicated to open higher on Tuesday. U.S. equity indexes remain very close to their all-time highs, while most international markets are not close to their highs. One issue ...
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Many Stocks Riding the Waves and Pressure of Hurricane Florence and Other Storms

Posted: September 11, 2018 at 4:13 pm

Hurricane Florence is expected to hit the Carolinas as a major hurricane on Thursday and was already a Category 4 storm on Tuesday. Evacuations, home repairs and homes having to ...
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Monday’s Biggest Winners and Losers in the S&P 500

Posted: September 10, 2018 at 4:09 pm

September 10, 2018: The S&P 500 closed up 0.2% at 2,877.28. The DJIA closed down 0.2% at 25,857.07. Separately, the Nasdaq was up 0.3% at 7,924.15. Monday was a mixed ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: AT&T, BlackRock, Broadcom, Diageo, Kinross Gold, United Rentals, Williams-Sonoma and More

Posted: July 13, 2018 at 9:10 am

Stocks were looking for direction on Friday, with mixed results in the major equity index futures this Friday the 13th. Investors have had less faith buying the dips in 2018 ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Dollar General, KLA-Tencor, Micron Technology, Nike, Red Hat and More

Posted: June 22, 2018 at 8:45 am

The futures traded higher Friday morning, although it appears that the worries over trade and tariffs are still in place. This comes despite the fact that car makers in Europe ...
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Merrill Lynch Makes Big Changes to Top-Performing Growth Portfolio

Posted: May 7, 2018 at 8:29 am

With earnings reporting for the first quarter all but over, and the second quarter of 2018 well underway, many of the top companies we follow on Wall Street are making ...
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