Text size The second-quarter earnings season speeds up this week, with 78 S&P 500 companies on deck to report. Halliburton and IBM publish their results first on Monday, followed by Coca-Cola, Lockheed Martin, Texas Instruments and United Airlines on Tuesday. Tesla, Microsoft and Chipotle Mexican Grill are the best moments …
Read More »Airlines face continuing uncertainty about Covid-19. Wall Street is of two minds.
Text size Two analysts covering Southwest Airlines took two different tacks on the action, with one analyst raising the target price and the other lowering the equivalent of Hold. However, in the era of the coronavirus pandemic, Southwest has been one of the toughest airline stocks. Ethan Miller / Getty …
Read More »Dow is in retreat as Coronavirus Plus trades spell issues for stocks
Text size Pound for pound, there are many more tons of viral and bacterial life on earth than humans. So in a sense, it’s the coronavirus world. We are just living in it. And while investors are content to ignore that some days, on others it is more difficult to …
Read More »Key Boeing supplier gets more bad news about 737 MAX
Text size Photograph by David Ryder / Getty Images Spirit AeroSystems said Monday night that Boeing asked it to produce fewer 737 MAX bodies, a story that not only jeopardizes the supplier’s financial health, but also means that the drama about the plane on the ground is far from over …
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