Boeing Scores Another Win in Airplane Battle
With the announcement of a commitment for 54 of its 737 aircraft, Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) today took another shot at Airbus, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. (OTC: EADSY), in an increasingly…
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United Continental Holdings Inc. (NYSE: UAL) the Chicago-based parent of United Airlines, has reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract with the Air Line Pilots Association. The pilots union had threatened to…
JAL Returns to the Stock Market
JAL will list on the Tokyo exchange with an initial public offering that will raise $8.5 billion. The listing is improbable for two reasons. The first is that airlines have had a rough year…
Boeing Earnings, Revenue Top Analyst Predictions
Boeing (NYSE: BA) second-quarter financials beat Wall St. earnings and revenue estimates based on strength in businesses such as commercial airplane deliveries. Boeing reported net income of $967 million, or $1.27 a share, for the second quarter, up…
Boeing Sales Forecast Flies Higher
Boeing (NYSE: BA) revised its forecast for commercial aircraft sales over the next 20 years to 34,000 planes. The value of the entire inventory should be $4.5 trillion, as carriers worldwide combine to double…
Banking on Dirty Harry
We have a tale of two gun stories today. Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: SWHC) is surging on news from the company that gun sales are running even stronger than expected. The gun…
Jeff Bezos Goes To Outer Space
Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been successful enough to earn himself a remarkably expensive hobby. He has been interested in outer space since he was a child. Bezos assembled an…
US Top Arms Exporter, India Top In Imports
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute issued its report on arms imports and export trends from 2007 to 2011. The agency writes The volume of international transfers of major conventional weapons was 24 per…
Hundreds Of Millions For Airbus A 380 Repairs
The cracked wing problems which Airbus faces on its A 380 super-jumbo are just beginning. The manufacturer’s vice president Tom Williams told Spiegel that “The problem will keep us busy for years.” He estimates the total costs of repairs and…
Airbus A380 Wing Cracks and the Limits of Engineering
Cracks in the wings of the new Airbus A380 super jumbo have been found several times. The aviation firm’s own engineers found some. Others have apparently been discovered by airlines. Sixty-eight of the planes are in…
The 10 Most Expensive Weapons in the World
The 10 most expensive weapons systems in the world total $868 billion in research and development and manufacturing costs. The Department of Defense has commissioned each of the weapons. The White House recently released…
The Boeing Dividend Hike Surprise (BA)
Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) was not featured as one of our model stocks in the 24/7 Wall St. 2012 model Dividend Portfolio and it was not even featured as a DJIA soon to raise…
There Is General Agreement That Military Accounts Are Loaded With Fat
The Institute for Policy Studies, one of the scores of think-tanks that thinks it knows better how the federal government should be run than Congress or The White House do, issued a new document…
Playing Defensive With Industrial and Defense Dividend Players (LMT, EMR, GD, MMM, HON)
When economic softness spooks high-flying stocks, solid companies with good histories, solid return on equity, and above average dividends are a handy remedy. We screened five companies in the industrial sector, three of them…
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 over that…